I am back!!!

 

It's been ages since I updated my cooking blog.

That doesn't mean I stopped cooking😁. I just got held up somewhere 😂

But I'm back to once again bring you Nigerian cuisine as well as food from all over the world!

Let me once again bring excitement to your everyday meals😋

Fish Pepper Soup

 

 

If you love to eat like I do, you will have all the reasons and encouragement to learn to cook!

 

Fish pepper soup is a good way to start.  It is easy to cook but heavenly delicious it will encourage you to pursue eating and cooking :)

 

Ingredients:

• 2 Cat Fish (Optional)
• 1 tablespoonful hot Chilli pepper fresh (or chilli powder)
• 1 tablespoonful Ginger powder
• 2litre Water
• Salt
• 15 leaves Effirin /Ntong
• 1teaspoonful African nutmeg
• 3 Cubes of Maggi
• 1 teaspoonful dry thyme
• 1 medium Onion

 Method:

• Wash the fish thoroughly and cut it into the size you want.
• Season the fish with salt, onion, pepper and leave it for 10mins
• Place a pot on the cooker, put the fish in it, and add 2litres of water,
• Stir and add the grounded nutmeg,  add thyme, the remaining chilli powder, 3 maggi cubes, add ginger fresh or powdered (optional)
• Wash and shred the Effirin leaves and add it to the fish cooking and add more salt if necessary.
• Leave it to simmer for another 10 minutes
• Remove from heat and serve hot,

Enjoy it with a bottle of wine.

 

Happy Cooking :)



Fried Rice, Fade Style

 

One of the things I love to do is to experiment.  Here is one experiment you will surely love.  Follow my instructions strictly and you will not regret it.  You will be able to feast on fried rice extraordinaire.

Ingredients:

• 500g  Rice
• 200g Shrimps
• 11b Chicken
• 100g Mixed vegetable
• 20g Butter
• 1teaspoonful Thyme
• ½ teaspoonful Curry powder (Indian one if possible)
• Salt
• 1 tablespoonful dried Chilli Pepper
• 1 tablespoonful All purpose seasoning
• 3 cubes Knorr Chicken stock
• 1teaspooful Soy sauce 

Method:

• Cut and wash the Chicken properly, pour it in a  pot
• Place the pot on the cooker and add salt to taste
• Add 2 tablets of chicken stock, 1litre of water ,1 teaspoonful of the all purpose seasoning, and a sliced onion into the pot with the chicken then cover to cook for 25 mins
• While cooking the chicken, remove the mixed vegetable and the shrimps from their bags and pour them in a clean bowls to defrost and put them aside.
• Wash the rice and leave it in a coriander to drain out the water put it aside
• When the chicken is cooked, drain the water into a clean bowl, let it cool down
• Wash the pot or take another pot. Rub the inside with the butter and place it on the cooker on low heat at first
• When the butter has melted, pour the drained rice in it and stir it properly better with wooden spoon if you have one (Optional)
• Add the chilli pepper powder, dry thyme and curry powder and the rest of the all purpose seasoning in it and stir, then increase the heat
• Strain the stock from the chicken, pour it in to the rice and stir constantly to cook for 10mins
• Cut the chicken into strips and fry for 5mins
• Fry the shrimps for 5mins
• Stir fry the mixed vegetable for 3min
• Test the rice for taste ,add the chicken stock tablet remaining to the fried mixed vegetable, shrimps, and the fried stripped  chicken, add salt if necessary and sprinkle 3 drops  of soy sauce. Stir together properly and let it simmer for 5-7mins.

 Serve it hot.

 

Happy Cooking :)

Akara (Bean Cake)

African Beans is another food that we use to do many dishes in Africa; we use it to prepare moin moin, Gbegiri soup, ewa aganyin, rice and beans dish, dodo and beans, gari and beans, and so many other dishes. I discovered that whatever dish you cook with these African beans, it will always be delicious.

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups of African Beans
• 1 Cubes Maggi
• 1 Red Chopped Bell Pepper
• 1 litre Vegetable Oil
• 1 Large Chopped Onion
• Salt
• Water
• 1 teaspoonful Black pepper 

Method

• Soak the beans in warm water for 20- 25mins
• Remove the shells from the beans by gathering the handful of beans in both hands and by rubbing them together, rinse  properly to remove the fallen shells this process could take up to 35mins.
• Blend the beans with ¼ litre -1/2litre water  portion by portion because you will not be able to  blend all of them at once, blend it very smoothly and creamy pour it in a side bowl, pour the rest of the water in the blender to rinse the thickened beans around the blender. The mixture should look very white and thick in texture.
• Dissolve the Maggi cube in a bit of warm water, add it to the beans mixture
• Add chopped onion and pepper and black pepper, and a teaspoonful of salt to taste then stir very well
• Place a frying pan on the cooker and pour the vegetable oil
• When the oil is hot, scoop a small amount of the mixture of beans, like pancake, into the hot oil (Mixture should be in1/2 an inch a part from each other to avoid merging together.) Scoop in about 2 - 3 spoonful at a time
• A scooped mixture should be cooked after 5mins on one side and then turn it to the other side until golden brown.
• Remove it and let the oil drain then serve.

Serves 4 to 6 people

 

It can be eaten at breakfast time, with Custard, Pap, (Ogi) Eko (Solid pap in the leaf), Bread, Gari and lots more. 

 

Happy Cooking :)

Porridge with Nigerian twist

Yam Porridge

Yam is one of the dishes that can be easily prepared.

 

Yam is cultivated throughout the West African region and Caribbean. It can be used to make a simple meal yet a tasty meal.  It is firmer and denser; when properly cooked it is richer in taste than potato.  

Yam comes in three main varieties:

a) A yellow yam with a sweet taste it can be roasted and eatten with fresh palm oil and salt.

b) Water yam, (Ewura) is very soft; it can be used for various dishes like Ojojo (Akara yam), Ebiripo, Ikokore and so on.

c) The third one is the standard one, very popular and more abundant.

For our recipe today, we will use the standard whole yam. This recipe can feed 6 Adults.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg African Standard Yam
• 2 cooking spoonful Palm oil
• 20g Smoked fish
• 10g Cray fish
• 20g Onion
• 3g Fresh Hot Pepper
• 1 tablespoonful Granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoonful Black Pepper
• 10g Fresh Tomatoes
• Salt
• 2litres Water
• 2 Cubes Maggi

 Method:

• Slice the yam (as it is) into circle shapes around 3 inch
• Peel and cut into chunks then wash the yam properly and put it in a large pot
• Peel the onion and blend it with crayfish together in a coarse paste
• Wash the pepper and the tomatoes and blend into fine paste.
• Break up the smoked fish and wash in hot boiled water to remove the debris.
• Place the pot with the yam on the cooker; turn the cooker to high heat.
• Add 1½litres of water, 1 teaspoonful of Black pepper, 2 large wooden spoon  of palm oil and then 1 teaspoonful of salt to taste (1 teaspoonful) – then cover and cook to boil.
• As soon as the water starts boiling, stir it and add the onion and crayfish paste and the chunks of smoked fish and cover.
• After 5 -10 mins, add pepper and tomato paste and 2 cubes of Maggi seasoning cubes and cover to cook for 10mins
• By now, the porridge should be thickened, so reduce the heat by half and add the granulated sugar and stir together with wooden spoon (Optional). Stir and cover for 2-3 mins, then let it cool down and serve your delicious meal.

 Combine your yam porridge with fried fish, steamed fish, stick meat, chicken stew etc.

 

Happy Cooking :)

Mix and Match Dish with Fried Tilapia

COMMON FISH, FIT FOR A KING
 

Just so excited that I will share with you another dish that you can mix and match with the other dishes I've taught you.  You can eat the fish on it own, or with Dodo, Jollof or fried rice, yam pottage and so many other dishes.

We have millions of fishes in the water, but our special one this time will be “TILAPIA FISH.

This fish can be prepared in so many ways, but we will talk about frying Tilapia. Let’s get started...

 

Ingredients:

• 2 Whole fresh tilapia fish
• 1 litre Vegetable Oil
• Salt                      
• 2 tablespoonful fish seasoning
• 1 medium onion
• 1 Red bell pepper
• 1 Green bell pepper
• 1 Yellow bell pepper
• 2 Cubes of fish Stock

 Method:

• After Cleaning the fish thoroughly and making sure there are no scales attached to them, choose to prepare them either cut into pieces or whole (Optional)
• Get a bowl and mix the seasoning; fish seasoning, and 1 cube of fish stock.
• Rub the fish with the seasoning and leave it for 20mins to absorb the seasoning.
• Put the fry pan on the cooker and pour oil in it (enough to shallow fry) and wait for it to heart up.
• When the oil is hot, carefully, put the fish in the oil to fry
• Let the fish dry on one side and turn it around until it’s golden brown, and then remove from the oil and drain it
• Slice the Onion and the bell pepper in circular shape. Put a little bit of oil in a sauce pan
• When it’s hot, pour the slice pepper and onion in the oil and fry for 5 mins.
• Serve the fish in an oval fish plate and garnish with the fried onion and pepper.

Happy Cooking :)

In a Hurry Meal, Dodo

Dodo (Fried Plantain)

In hurry to get to work? No worries, here's a quick and easy meal to prepare. You only need 15 minutes to prepare this meal.  Amongst Nigerian and most African descendent countries, it is better known as Dodo, but its common name is fried plantain.

 

Ingredients:

• Ripe plantain
• 1 litre Vegetable Oil
• Salt

Method:

• Put a frying pan on the cooker and pour in 50ml oil (or just enough to shallow fry) or you can use a deep frying machine to fry it.
• Peel the Plantain and cut into oval shape as you can see in the picture
• Sprinkle the salt as required on the plantain, mixed together to absorb it.
• When the oil is hot, carefully, pour the plantain in the hot oil, and fry deep
• Check it regularly and change the sides.
• When it is golden brown, use a fork to pick it out of the oil onto a clean plate.
• Serve with stew or  fried egg or anything of our choice e.g. Jollof rice, stick meat, fried fish, fish stew, egusi soup, beans, chicken stew etc.

    Happy Cooking :)