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Grilled Chicken, Saute onions with spinach and rice

Rice can be cooked in different ways, for me "depending on my mood" :)

Ingredients: [serve one person]

2 pieces of chicken

1/2 onion

1 and half cup of rice

pepper

salt

maggie cubes

spices

vegetable oil

spinach (finely chopped) 

Directions:

for the grilled chicken:

for me I prefer to marinate the chicken for few hours, then parboil a little. Then add a little vegetable oil, [ add few spices if need be] depending on your oven, I grill between 100 - 150 degrees. Allow to grill to your desire.

For the rice and saute onions:

1) Wash the spinach, using food processor finely chop them.

2) Slice the onions, mix it up with the spinach, add a little maggie cube for few minutes. Then in a pan add 2 spoons of vegetable oil, when the oil is hot, add onions and spinach. Keep stirring for about 5 minutes and its ready to serve. 

3) Parboil the rice until half ready, then in a pan add vegetable oil [I don't really wait for the oil to be hot at this stage I proceed] add tomatoes, onions, spices, salt, pepper and fry for about 5 minutes depending on how well fried you want it to be.

4) When it is ready add the rice to the mixture, mix the rice and sauce together add a little water and spices if need be. Low the heat to allow the rice to steam from this point. [ depending on how the rice was parboiled, the rice should take about 15 minutes to get ready.

5) When its ready serve hot and enjoy with the saute onions. 

 BON APPETIT

British Breakfast

This breakfast is known as the British breakfast, anyone can add any twist to it.

Ingredients:
2 bacon
2 sausages
1 egg
2 slices of bread (toasted)
1 small baked beans
1/2 onion
pinch of salt
pepper
vegetable oil
1 tomato (optional)
2 mushrooms (optional)

Simple steps.
1) Open the baked beans in a pot, add onions, salt, pepper or maggie (optional) allow to cook for about 5 minutes.
2) Add a little vegetable oil in your frying pan and fry the sausage, bacon and egg separately.
3) Fry the egg how you want it, for me i did not mix the egg, i broke it in a plate and added, salt and pepper and fried it.
4) Toast the bread.
5) Serve in a plate. It could be taken with tea, hot chocolate or any juice of your choice or milk.
enjoy!!!!!

The First Baby shower!! I Ever Organised

We organised a surprise baby shower  for a friend recently, the decorations (made by my friends), food and some snacks were made by me. The mum to be was trilled and excited, I thought I would not be able to pull it off but i did and everyone was excited.

Here are some pictures of the food and some snacks...

 Fried rice and Jollof rice, made by Akumabee's plate

 The meat pie, cup cakes and brownies made by Akumabee's plate

The cake was made by cakes and shakes Manchester.

Everyone danced, we had some fun games like, (advice to the mum to be and wishes for the baby). We had a mum who just gave birth recently, to advice the mum to be on what to expect and so one...
We the friends defiantly learned a thing or two, she had wonderful friends who wanted her to smile. The dress, earring and shoe was a surprise as well.
I hope this will help first time organisers as well. I am not perfect but learning. I watched lots of videos on youtube and read about the whole thing to get ideas and it was helpful.

Edikaikong Soup

Vegetables are good for our health and those in Nigeria do enjoy this a lot, with a range of different traditional soups from various parts of the country. Todays focus would be on edikaikong soup, the two main green leaves in the soup are water leaves and Ugu or Pumpkin leaves as it is widely known, the soup is rich, because it contains vitamins. Different types of meat are used to cook the soup [depending on what type of meat you want to use], this soup is commonly known with the Akwa Ibom people of Nigeria. join me as I take you through this journey...

Ingredients:
water leaves
ugu
beef
dry fish
stock fish
palm oil
maggie
salt
pepper
cry fish

Directions:
Firstly, wash all vegetables very well, then slice them and set them aside. Wash the meat, stock fish, dried fish, place in the pot, spice it up and cook. When the meat is ready add other ingredients.

 Add crayfish, pepper, maggie, and stir. Allow to cook

 When it is well cooked add palm oil and allow to cook for few minutes. make sure that the mixture should not have a lot of water.

 When it is well cooked it should look like the picture above, then add the water leave first, this will enable the water leave to cook well and allow the water in it to come out.

 The picture above is the water leave, i got it frozen here, but the fresh one would be better. Some people use spinach in place of the water leaves.

 The picture above is the Ugu leave or Pumpkin leaves as it is widely known, i also got it frozen.

 The picture above shows the water leave cooking, after which the ugu will be added and allowed to cook until it is ready.

And the soup is ready, you could enjoy this soup with Eba, semovita, fufu, pounded yam. Try this simple steps and enjoy.

Unripe plantain

Unripe plantain is good for everyone especially ladies, it helps with iron in the body. There are different ways to eat it, it could be cooked as porridge, roasted, fired or boiled today i would be frying it. This could be considered a snack or brunch or breakfast option, follow me as i take you through this simple steps.

Ingredients:
1 Unripe plantain
1/2 bell peppers [any colour of your choice]
1 egg
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 onion

Directions:
Take the skin out, was the plantain and slice to any shape of your choice. Place the frying pan on the fire when it is hot salt the plantain and fry until golden brown, take down and set aside. wash the bell peppers, onion wash and slice, then break the egg add the salt and pepper. Add the oil to the frying pan add the sliced onions and bell peppers when it is fried to your desired choice add the egg and stir gently. Take down and add in the plate with the plantain, it could be taken with juice, milk or tea. Try this today and enjoy.