Welcome August

This month will be filled with everything beautiful, including lovely dishes... it promises to be special

Sweet potato porridge

A good way to end the month i present to you this mouth watering dish

Things you need:

2 sweet potato (washed, peeled and sliced)

1 onion 

pepper

salt

maggie

spinach (washed and sliced)

meat (already boiled)

1/2 cup of palm oil (depending on how much oil you need in your food)

water

spices (garlic, ginger, nutmeg)

2 fresh tomato (washed and sliced).

Instructions:

place the (washed, peeled and sliced) sweet potato in a pot, add water and salt allow to cook for 20 minutes. While that is cooking, we will make the sauce, place the pot on the stove, add palm oil (do not allow the oil to fry) add onions, tomato (allow to fry for 5 minutes) then add the (already cooked) meat, taste (at this point if you want to add more spices you can, if it is not enough) add spices and salt, allow to cook for 5 minutes then reduce heat. Take down the cooked sweet potato drain the water and add it to the tomato sauce mix together allow to cook until almost ready (like in 5 minutes to serve) add the spinach reduce the heat of the stove allow to steam until food is ready to be served.

 When it is ready serve hot and enjoy you meal.

Nigerian Meat pie

Meat pie is a Nigerian snack 

 give it a try today and enjoy...

Things you need: for the dough
plain flour 1kg
baking powder (optional i do not use it sometimes)
butter
pinch of salt
1 cup of water (depending on the size it could be 1/2).
3 Irish potatoes (optional and depending on the number)
1 medium sized onion
1 cup of sunflower oil
spices (optional)
pinch of salt
minced meat
carrot
green beans
1 egg ( ornamental: to rub on the meat pie before baking).
For the meat pie dough:
turn the flour in a bowl, add baking powder (optional) and pinch of salt. mix them together, add butter and mix well and finally water. mix well (knead) until dough becomes soft and smooth.

For the filling:

wash and peel the potatoes and place on the stove to cook. Then wash, clean and cut the carrot, onions and green beans into any shape you desire. place a frying pan on the stove, add sunflower oil add vegetables and spice it. Take down add sunflower oil add minced meat fry well on low heat spice up, add salt, when ready add vegetables and potatoes cover and allow to cook for 15 minutes. When its cooked, to make the filling tick put flour in a small bowl add water and include in the mixture allow to cook for 5 minutes then take down.

  The making:

preheat the oven and continue with the meat pie. Take a little from the ready made dough knead take a rolling pin and roll out; to achieve the meat pie shape take a plate or any object with the perfect shape, shape the dough after rolling take some filling and place in the centre of the shaped out dough, cover it over use a folk to close up the edges and place in a baking pan (continue the process until all the dough is filled up).
With the help of a kitchen brush, polish the meat pie using the egg, then place it in the oven and allow to cook, when it is ready the meat pie would be golden brown as seen in the picture bellow. Serve hot and enjoy.

Chips Mayai

This is a Tanzanian dish

Ingredient:
3 Potatoes or ready made chips
2 eggs
salt
1 cup of vegetable oil.

Directions:
you only need chips (ready made one you buy from the super market) or oven made. When the chips are fried take a frying pan add a little vegetable oil put the fried chips in while the chips is frying beat the eggs add salt then pour the mixture on the chips wait for 2 minutes for one side to cook then flip over and wait for 2 minutes for the other side to cook and thats it. serve hot...

Its July

July is here food lovers i wish you all a fruitful last six months of the year, may God bless guide and protect you all my loyal readers and family. May all your dreams come to reality, may all you do excel and enjoy cooking guys love you all.

Nigerian Fried Rice

Ingredients:

2 cup of rice
curry
1 carrot
green beans
2 piece chicken
salt
3 maggie cubes
spices (garlic, ginger)
2 cups of sunflower oil.

Directions: 

wash the 2 cups of rice and place on a stove allow to boil for 15 minutes, while the rice is on the fire wash and slice  the carrot, green beans (depending on which vegetable you want to use) place aside. wash the chicken, spice and place on stove allow to cook for 20 minutes (depending on how you want it) after which you grill. when the rice is ready (how i do it), i put a little amount of sunflower oil on the stove add the vegetables stir fry for 5 minutes ( this will help the vegetable not to be too soft) then add the curry and 2 maggie cubes with a little salt, place aside. for mixing the rice and vegetables ( that was fried), mix in a separate pot this will help the pot not to burn under, then add stock (from the chicken) and reduce heat to 4, use foil paper to cover the pot to allow it steam well them allow to steam for 15 minutes (depending on how soft the boiled rice is). when it is ready serve hot with the chicken and enjoy.

Fried Plantain and peppered Gizzered

 wow i know right i got busy this weekend and thought of doing this Nigerian delicacy which is really nice, and i think my food lovers across the world should give it a try.
for the plantain,  here are the instructions. simple i must say.
Ingredients:
2 ripe plantain
1 cup of sun flower oil
salt.

Directions:
take the skin of the plantain out
slice the plantain to any size you desire
place the frying pan on the cooking stove when hot as desired salt the sliced plantain and fry allow to be golden brown.
serve hot, as seen bellow.

 For the peppered gizzard.
Instructions:
2 pepper fresh
1/2 Onion
2 fresh tomato
2 maggie cubes
1/2 salt
1 cup of sunflower oil
spices (ginger, gallic).

Directions:
wash the gizzard, add spice, salt and place on stove. while the gizzard is on the stove prepare pepper sauce.  blend 2 fresh pepper, tomato and onion together, place pan on stove add 1 cup of of sunflower oil, add blended mixture, fry as desired. when the gizzard is ready stir fry then add the sauce leave on the stove for about 5 minutes. serve hot with plantain and enjoy.