Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Afang soup


Vegetable sauce





Yam and chicken source



                    

Burger and sausage bread


This beautiful, yummy food was our Christmas breakfast. Everyone enjoyed it and was asking for more. Very simple and easy to make.

Ingredients:

1. Sausage bread
2. Burger bread
3. Sausage
4. Burger meat
5. Tomato
6. Cheese
7. Ketchup
8. Mayonnaise

How to make it
1. Fry the burger meat and sausage.
2. Open both bread with a bread knife.
3. Spread mayonnaise on both.
4. Put the fried sausage on sausage bread and the fried burger on burger bread.
5. Add ketchup on the sausage bread.
6. On the burger bread, put the cheese on top, a ring of onion, and sliced tomato.




Monday, 26 February 2018

(ukazi /afang) salad


                                       


                              

(Ukazi/afang) is a leaf eaten among the eastern part of Nigeria, the calabars and some igbos. The leafs is very expensive in the market, in a restaurant, a plate of afang soup is also costly. There are many ways of preparing (ukazi /afang), it can be prepare as soup or salad. As for me, we  prepare raw (ukazi /afang) as salad and eat it like that. Like the one in the picture. I know you might be wondering how possible that is! But believe me, it's delicious! Below are the steps on how to prepare this greenish and yummy salad.

Ingredients

1. A handful of sliced (ukazi /afang) or any quantity of your choice
2. Potash ( akanwu)
3. Ugba
4. Fresh pepper (3 seeds)
5. Kpomo
6. Garden eggs ( optional)
7. Stock fish (optional)
8. Knorr cube (1)
9. Palm oil (one cooking spoon)
Water and salt to taste.

How to prepare.

1. Mash the potash with a back of spoon into powder form. Pure it inside an empty jam bottle or inside a bowl. Add enough water and set it aside.
2. Soak the (ukazi/afang) in a clean bowl. Leave it to settle down in case it has any sand.
3. Scrape the kpomo with a kitchen knife. Chop them into pieces and set aside
4. Wash the ugba with warm water
5. In a small morter, pound  together the fresh pepper and crayfish if you don't have grounded one.
6. Pure in the oil . By now the potash must have settled. It is settled when the bottom looks like ash and the top brown. The one you should use is the top one that looks like brown
7. Now, pure in a little of the potash. Give it a good stir until the oil changes to yellow and thick. Continue stirring until everything is thoroughly mixed.
8.  Add half of the knorr cube, chopped kpomo, stock fish if you are using any. Stir it until everything has combined together.
9. Squeeze out excess water from the (ukazi / afang). Add it to the mixed ingredients. Give it a good stir until everything has blended. Add a little salt if you need any.
10. You can add some sliced onion by the side like the one in the picture or enjoy it like that! With a chilled beverage.

Note: if you are using stock fish, boil it until it is soft. Make sure you are using the flesh not the bone. Add it the same to you added the kpomo. You can add in you chopped garden eggs or add it on top of the salad like the onion. Whichever way you choose is cool!


Tuesday, 30 January 2018

fried potatoes and scrambled eggs

If you feel like trying simple and light meal that cost less, than you are just at the right place! Here is a meal just for you.!!

Ingredients

1. (3 big blb) sweet potatoes peeled and slice.
2. Vegetable oil
3. (3 large eggs)
4. Knor (1cube)
5. Milk (3tablespoons)
and salt to taste

How to Prepare

1. Peel the potatoes, slice them round or any shape you desire.
2. Wash them and put them inside a sieve. Spice it with a little salt.
3. Put a big frying pan on the fire. You can use deep fryer if you have any. Allow it it to dry, pure in the vegetable oil and allow it to heat for some minutes, on a high heat. Add the sliced potatoes, fry it until it becomes brown and ready to be eaten.
4. Now crack in the eggs in a clean bowl. Add half of the knor cube and a little salt. Give it a thoroughly beating with a fork or a cake whisker. Mix the milk with a little water, add it inside the beaten eggs, give it one more beating. Set it aside.
5. By now you must have finished frying the potatoes. Transfer the oil in a big steeless bowl. Put the pot back on fire and add a spoon of the oil. Let it heat for 1minute. Pure in the beaten eggs. Stir it continuously on a low heat until it forms scrambled just like the one on the picture. You can enjoy it with chilled beverage, tea or anything you feel like. It's your choice.
Note: you can add a little stew beside it if you like.