Meat Pie as a Dessert

Meat Pie as a Dessert

 I wanted Meat Pie because everyone in my home was getting bored with the conventional meat pie with its half moon shape.

This one tastes so good and believe me, the first time I made it, a whole pan was consumed in no time! I only made a few changes to the original Nigerian Meat Pie to get this. I replaced the Irish potatoes with sweet potatoes and added sweet apple. These two add a kind of subtle sweetness to the meat pie. Then I used a flat baking pan to make it look like the western pies.

Ingredients

make use baking pan that is 10 inches (25cm) in diameter and 1.0 inches (3.5 cm) deep.

For the dough

1. 300g plain flour (All Purpose Flour)
2. 150g margarine
3. 1 teaspoon baking powder
4. 2 pinches salt
5. ¼ cup cold water

For the filling

1. ½ of a medium SWEET potato (150g)
2. 1 small carrot (130g)
3. 1 sweet apple
4. 250g minced beef
5. 1 small onion
6. 1 big stock cube
7. 1 teaspoon thyme
8. Salt to taste
9. Water

Thickener for the filling

1. 1 tablespoon plain flour
2. ¼ cup cold water

Ornamental Ingredient

1. 1 egg

Directions

The Meat Pie Filling

Wash, peel and dice all the vegetables. Do the same for the apple.
Follow the direction for making Nigerian Meat Pie filling.
After step 4 from over there, add the diced apple, add the thickener, stir and leave to simmer for about 3 minutes.
Set aside to cool down.

The dough

The dough for this pie is mixed exactly the same way as the dough for the classic Nigerian Meat Pie. Follow the directions over there to mix the dough.

Roll, Fill and Close

Set your oven to 150°C (300°F) to preheat.
Rub margarine on the insides of the baking pan. Break the egg, beat it and set aside.
Knead the rested dough for a bit and divide it into 2 parts. One part should be slightly bigger than the other.

Roll out the bigger dough to a 5mm thickness making sure that the diameter of the rolled out dough equals the diameter of your baking pan plus two times the depth of the pan and then some excess to allow for sealing the meat pie.
Once happy, drape the flat dough on the pan and make it snug the inside corners of the pan.
Fill the dough-lined baking pan with the filling.
Brush some egg on the dough covering the edge of the pan.
Roll out the remaining dough to 5mm thickness and a diameter that is a bit wider than that of the baking pan.
Cover the pan with the rolled out dough and use a fork to seal the edges. Feel free to close the edges any how you like.

Rub the egg on the dough. This gives the pie a golden brown look when done.
Set the pan on a rack in the preheated oven and bake for 40 minutes or till the top covering is golden brown. Place the pan closer to the bottom heating so that the dough at the bottom of the pan will be well done by the time the top dough is done.

How To Prepare Ora (Oha) Soup.

How To Prepare Ora (Oha) Soup.

It's has been Ora (Oha) Soup, Ora (Oha) soup is dedicated to the native of South Eastern Nigeria. I may say is one of their best and delicious traditional suop. This very soup is just like the Bitterleaf Soup but the difference in between them is that Ora (Oha) leaves is used to cook Ora (Oha) Soup and Bitterleaf is used to cook Bitterleaf Soup. It's so special in the sense that the Ora (Oha) leaves is a seasonal leaf unlike the Bitterleaf which can be found all year round.


BENEFITS:-



Ora (Oha) leaves has a lot of benefit, it contains minerals like calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, copper, zinc and manganese. Its also rich in fiber, amino acids like glutamic acid, lysine and cysteine while they have a low sodium content. They contain vitamins A, C and B. Some professional also confirm that Ora (Oha) leaves contain hydrogen cyanide and oxalate but in low levels which are not harmful to humans.


INGREDIENTS

* Ora (Oha) leaves.

* 5 Corms Cocoyam.

* 3 Cooking spoonful of Red Palm Oil.

* Assorted Beef.

* Shaki (cow tripe).

* Dry Fish.

* Stock Fish.

* Chilli pepper.

* Salt (to your best taste).

* Crayfish (to your best taste).

* Tasty cubes (to your best taste).

* Ogiri Igbo (to your best taste).


Notes:-1. Ora (Oha) leaf is so unique to the extent that it does not have any alternative vegetable.

Notes:- 2. It does not matter you use cocoyam corms, because at times you may not find it in the market so you can use cocoyam flour as the alternative. Another best alternative to both is potato flour.

Notes:- 3. Ogiri Igbo is another traditional ingredient that has a great taste on it own. But in this recipe it's absolutely optional, but if you make use of it, its OK.


Things to do Before you Proceed with the cooking of Ora (Oha) Soup.


1. If using ungrind crayfish, grind it with the pepper and set aside.

2. Peel and Wash the Cocoyam Corms and boil till soft. When it soften, pour into mortar and pound with pestle to a smooth paste.

3. Pick the Ora (Oha) leaves, chop on the chopping board the Ora (Oha) leaves into tiny pieces.

Note:- your chopping most not be too tiny this is to prevent the Ora (Oha) leaves from becoming darker in colour.


DIRECTIONSU:-

1. Set up your cooker or stove, place on it a sizeable pot to boil the shaki (cow tripe), stock fish and dry
fish with small amount of water for about five (5) minutes or until shaking start curling on itself.

2. Now wash the beef and add to your cooking, then continue.

3. After about two (2) minutes, add one (1) tasty cubes and cook for five (5) more minutes or less.

4. When the shaki (cow tripe) and the rest are well cooked, add the grounded pepper and ogiri Igbo, ^{then keep on rolling on the ball,} cook for seven (7) minutes.

5. By now you can now add your cocoyam paste in a wee lumps form with small part of the palm oil.

6. We are now almost their, Cover and cook till all the cocoyam lumps have dissolved.

7. By now you can add the ora (oha) leaves, two (2) taste cube, the remaining palm oil and salt (to your best taste), now cook for more five (5) minutes, stir all together, now the Ora (Oha) Soup is ready... Best Serve with Black or White Amala, Garri (Eba), Semolina, Cassava Fufu or Pounded Yam.

How To Prepare Boiled Yam

How To Prepare Boiled Yam.


It one of the easy and fast recipe. Boiled Yam always go along with different kinds of Stuff, Stew, Sauce and many more... It is prepared off ingredients you should understand what I meant by (off ingredients) i.e without adding any ingredients oder that salt and sugar and it's even (optional).


BENEFITS.

1. WELLSPRING OF ENERGY; Its crunchy edible tuber chiefly composed of complex carbohydrates and soluble dietary fiber.


2. WELLSPRING OF B-COMPLEX GROUP OF VITAMINS; It provides adequate daily requirements of pyridoxine (vitamin B6), thiamin (vitamin B1), riboflavin, folates, pantothenic acid and niacin. These vitamins mediate various metabolic functions in the humans body.


3. Fresh roots contains lots of beneficial roles to man. One of which is the anti-oxidant vitamins it contains.
These natural God-given fresh roots also has a considerable amount of vitamin C, sufficient enough for us to have a healthy living.
This anti-oxidants play some important roles in our body like helping us fight some dangerous dieseases like diabetes, and all cadiovascular dieseases like Hypertension and stroke.
It help boost our immune function, gives quick wound healing, enhance bone growth and helps anti-ageing functions of our body system.



INGREDIENTS:


* White or Yellow Yam... Depending on the number of people you wanna serve. To sefa you, you can calculate five(5) slices for adult's from +18 upward, three(3) slices for children from +12 up to 17 and two(2) or one(1) slices for 11 downward.


* Salt (Optional).


* Sugar (Optional).





^{Cooking Directions}


1. Slice the yam tuber into 1 inch each, before or after peeling.








2. After peeling, pour into a cold water and wash the slices one after another and place in a pot.

Note; the yam slices most not sleep on each other, make sure you arrange them well.

3. Set up your cooker or stove, place the pot on it and add water to it.

Note; the water most be halfway to the level of the yam.

4. Cook for complete 5 minutes or until it soft.

5. Add salt and sugar and leave to cook for about one⁽¹⁾minutes or more than. Is just for the salt and sugar to muck into the yam slices.


6. Put off the heat and use fork to bring out the slice one after another into a bigger bowl.


Serve and enjoy with other recipes such as:- Garden Egg Stew, Beef and Chicken Stew ,
Ponmo (cow skin) Stew, Corned Beef Stew, Pepper Sauce , Egg Stew, Fried Egg, Meatball Stew
Tomato Stew
Vegetable oil or Palm oil..

How To Prepare Beef & Chicken Stew

How To Prepare Beef & Chicken Stew.




(THIS ARTICLE IS SIMILAR TO THE Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew Recipe ONLY THAT BEEF and CHICKEN ARE MAKE USED OF IN THIS RECIPE and SOME INGREDIENT CHANGED and THE PROCEDURE IS QUITE SIMILAR TOO)

It's Beef & Chicken Stew. But as a matter of fact, I think the name shouldn't gives you headache, what matter most is to get it done yourself and enjoy with your families and friends.
Let's safe you the stress of day and night dreaming about ^{Beef & Chicken Stew,^^ because the look and taste is unimaginable, and by now you should be really ready to get it done yourself.
I'm sure you must have tought about eating Beef & Chicken Stew with White Boil Rice, or with boil rice and beans... if yes.. then you're in for a treat. am about to show you how you can prepare Beef & Chicken Stew for yourself and enjoy with families and friends...
Beef and Chicken Stew is none other than the Tomato Stew with additional of some ingredients. Though it is called Beef & Chicken Stew, and it's not necessary you should use only ^^Beef and Chicken,} you are free to add Turkey, Fish, Goat Meat, and other forms of meat and fish.
The stew can serve you long, that why it's advisable to prepare it in large quantities and store in the freezer.


Ingredients Needed For The Beef & Chicken Stew.


* Tomato Stew.
* About 3kg of Whole Chicken.
* 1kg of Beef.
* Two Part's Of Onions.
* Habanero Pepper.
* Salt.
* 3 Tasty Cubes.
* Two Tablespoonfuls of Thyme.



Important Notes About The Ingredients.



1. It will be much more OK to try and match the quantities of ingredients above to the quantity of the tomato
stew you want to prepare.


2. It's advisable to always use Chicken; Hen (A female chicken) in almost every recipes you prepare because it's tastier than the cockerel or rooster. And it's also advisable to use whole chicken then using parts, because each of the different parts of the chicken such as the wings, drumsticks, hips, lap, etc... has its own unique taste, with this, all together makes any recipes using it for taste much better than using only one part of a chicken.


3. Get full details of the Tomato Stew from the tomatoe stew page.



Before You Proceed With The Cooking Of Beef & Chicken Stew.



1. Grind or blend or pound the Habanero Pepper with one part of the onion, and chop the other one part of it into small pieces. Set aside the two.


2. Now start with the preparation of the tomato stew by following the simple step by step on the tomato stew page How to Prepare Tomato Stew.


3. Now cut your chicken to any sizes of your choice, wash them in a bigger bowl of warm water. Hand pick them one after another and put into a bigger pot of which number is not less than number three, and place it on the cooker or stove. Add half part of the chopped onions, one of the tasty cubes and one tablespoonfuls of thyme, and cook for five minutes.


4. After five minutes or more than, the chicken should've been getting done, add the beef and salt (to taste) then cook till well done. After like five minutes or less, pour into a sieve to drain out the stock.


Notes1; you may fry or grill the chicken and beef. That if you like it, but as for me I always fry my chickens and grill the beef. But this is optional, it will only gives them a rich golden colors.


Notes2; when cooking the chicken and beef, adding water and salt is highly prohibited. Because, adding water to it will only makes you lose the good taste of the stock. And adding salt to it when it's in the raw stage, will closes the pores of the chicken, not only the cooking of the chicken alone any type of food you are cooking, this is to
prevents the natural flavour of the
chicken from coming out into the stock and prevents the seasoning from entering the chicken to improve the taste. To cut it short, I will like to write short note why you shouldn't try to add or start your cooking with salt....
As for the chicken stock will not have a rich natural taste. It will only have an artifical taste of seasoning. Adding salt from the beginning of your cooking also hardens the chicken hence it takes longer to get done. In any food am preparing, I always add salt when it almost done. Most people thought that adding salt from the beginning is the best way to start cooking. In what I believe, to get the richness taste out of your food is not with salt, all kinds of food has it own NATURAL FLAVOUR, so therefore we should allow this NATURAL FLAVOUR to comes out into our cookings. And by the way, almost all the tasty cubes sell nowadays are already contain salt in there ingredients so it's even better to add tasty cube which the salt has no effect on your cooking.


5. If you already have the tomato stew in your freezer, it should have been freezed, bring it out and place in warm water to disfreeze. This should be first thing to do but it escape my mind while writing.



Cooking Guides Line / Directions.


1. Set up your cooker or stove, place a sizeable pot on it and pour into the pot the tomato stew to undergo heating slowly.


Notes; Before adding any other ingredients, you may pour out the excess oil if necessary.

2. After heating, add the chicken and beef stock "water from the boil chicken and beef".


3. Add the grounded Habanero Pepper and the fried chicken and grilled beef. Then stir very well until all mixed together, cover and continue cooking.


4. After cooked for like 5 minutes, add salt if necessary. If the stew is too thick, you can add some water that's if you don't have any stock water left.


5. Cover the pot and simmer until the vegetable oil use to fry the tomato stew appears on the surface of the stew. Stir again and you are done with your cooking.


Best served with; White Boil Rice, or White Boiled Rice and Beans, Fried Yam, or Boiled Yam.


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How To Prepare Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew

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How To Prepare Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew.



It's Ponmo (cow skin) Stew, and I love to call it "Ponmo Alata". But as a matter of fact, the name shouldn't gives you headache, what matter most to me is to see you doing it yourself and for your families and friends to enjoy as well.

To safe you the stress of day and night dreaming about Ponmo (cow skin) Stew, because the look and taste is unimaginable, and by now you should be really ready to get it done yourself.
I'm sure you must have tought about eating Ponmo (cow skin) Stew with White Boil Rice, Boil Rice and Beans, or with any drink (soft or hard) ... if yes.. then you're in for a treat. am about to show you how you can prepare Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew for yourself and enjoy with families and friends...
Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew is none other than the Tomato Stew with additional of some ingredients. Though it is
called Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew, and it's not necessary you should use only Ponmo (Cow Skin), you are free to add Fried Turkey, Fish, Goat Meat and other forms of meats and fishs.
The stew can serve you long, that why it's advisable to prepare it in large
quantities and store in the freezer.



Ingredients Needed For The Beef & Chicken Stew.


* Tomato Stew.
* 3kg Ponmo (Cow Skin).
* Two Part's Of Onions.
* Habanero Pepper.
* Salt.
* 3 Tasty Cubes.
* Two Tablespoonfuls of Thyme.


Important Notes About The Ingredients.


1. It will be much more OK to try and match the quantities of ingredients above to the quantity of the tomato
stew you want to prepare.


2. Get full details of the Tomato Stew from the tomatoe stew page (click here).





Before You Proceed With The Ponmo (Cow Skin) Stew.


1. Grind or blend or pound the Habanero Pepper with one part of the onion, and chop the other one part of it into small pieces. Set aside the two.


2. Now start with the preparation of the tomato stew by following the simple step by step on the tomato stew page "How to Prepare Tomato Stew".


3. Now cut your Ponmo into any sizes of your choice, wash them in a bigger bowl of warm water. Hand pick them one after another and put into a bigger pot of which number is not less than number three, and place it on the cooker or stove. Add half part of the chopped onions, one of the tasty cubes and one tablespoonfuls of thyme, and cook for five minutes.


4. After five minutes or more than, the Ponmo should have been getting done, if you are using any other meat or fish non chicken, add them by this time with salt (to your taste) then cook till well done. After like five minutes or less, pour into a sieve to drain out the stock.


Notes; when cooking the Ponmo and other types of meat's or fish's non chicken, adding much water and salt at the beginning is highly prohibited. Because, adding much water to it will only makes you lose the good taste of the stock. And adding salt to it when it's in the raw stage, will closes the pores of your cooking, this is to
prevents the natural flavour of the
cooking from coming out into the stock and prevents the seasoning from entering the cooking to improve the taste. To cut it short, I will like to write short note why you shouldn't add or start your cooking with adding salt....
As for the beef fish and chicken stock will not have a rich natural taste. It will only have an artifical taste of seasoning. Adding salt from the beginning of your cooking also hardens the cooking hence it takes longer time to get done. In any food am preparing, I always add salt when it almost done. Most people thought that adding salt from the beginning is the best way to start cooking. In what I believe, to get the richness taste out of your food is not with salt, all kinds of food has it own NATURAL FLAVOUR, so therefore we should allow this NATURAL FLAVOUR to come out into your cooking. And by the way, almost all the tasty cubes in the world today already contain salt in there ingredients so it's even better to add tasty cube which the salt has no effect on your cooking.


5. If you already have the tomato stew in your freezer, it would have been freezed, bring it out and place in warm water to disfreeze. This should be first thing to do but it escape my mind while writing.


Cooking Guides Line / Directions.


1. Set up your cooker or stove, place a sizeable pot on it and pour into the pot the tomato stew to undergo heating slowly.


Notes; Before adding any other ingredients, you may pour out the excess oil if necessary.


2. After heating, add the ponmo (cow skin) stock "water from the boiled ponmo (cow skin)".


3. Add the grounded Habanero Pepper and the ponmo (cow skin) and any other meat or fish non chicken. Then stir very well until all mixed together, cover and continue cooking.


4. After cooked for like 5 minutes, add salt if necessary. If the stew is too thick, you can add some water and thats if you don't have any stock water left.


5. Cover the pot and simmer until the vegetable oil use to fry the tomato stew appears on the surface of the stew. Stir again and you are done with your cooking.
Best served with; White Boil Rice , or White Boiled Rice and Beans, Fried Yam, or Boiled Yam.

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How To Prepare Vegetables Soup.

How To Prepare Vegetables Soup.


Vegetables Soup popularly known as "Efo Riro" is one of the western part of Nigerian known as Yoruba's. Vegetables soup "Efo Riro" is a Yoruba Delicacy. The vegetables soup "Efo Riro" can be cooked with different types of vegetables such as:

* Water leaves; (Gbure in Yoruba, Botanical Name:Talinum Triangulare)

* Ugu "pumpkin" leaves,

* Bitter leaves; (Onugbu in Igbo, Efo Ewuro in Yoruba, shuwaka in Hausa, Etidot in Cross River, Botanical Name: Vernonia Amygdalina),

* Eggplant leaves; (Garden egg leaf, Gboma, Efo Igbo in Yoruba, Botanical Name: Solanium marcrocarpon),

And

* Spinach; (Efo Tete in Yoruba, Botanical Name: Amaranthus Hybridus).
All this kind of vegetables listed above are allowed in cooking Efo Riro.

INGREDIENTS

* You can use any of the vegetables listed above.

* Fried Meat.

* Rosted Fish.

* Stock Fish.

* Palm oil.

* 2 Teacups of Crayfish.

* 2 Medium Onions.

* 3 Stock cubes.

* Salt.

* Habanero peppers.

* 2 tablespoonful of ogiri okpei (Iru, Locust bean).

* 5 bells of fresh Tomatoes.

Before proceeding with the cooking of Vegetables soup "Efo Riro''.

1. Boil the stockfish for 30 minutes or more than, the stockfish cooking duration depends on how hard it is.  When it done, clean it and remove the bones, then separate them into smaller pieces.

2. Select and arrange the leaves of any vegetables of your choice, chop it, then pour into a bowl of hot water for an hour or till it softening.

Notes;

* If using Water leaves; (Gbure in Yoruba, Botanical Name:Talinum Triangulare), you don't have to add hot water, add cold water to it and set aside.

* If using Bitter leaves; (Onugbu in Igbo, Efo Ewuro in Yoruba, shuwaka in Hausa, Etidot in Cross River, Botanical Name: Vernonia Amygdalina), you wash it and cook for about 30 minutes. "don't know how to wash bitter leaves, click here".

* If using Ugu "pumpkin" leaves, chop and soak in warm water for about 20 minutes.

3. Pound the Pepper, Onions, Tomatoes and grind the crayfish.

COOKING DIRECTIONS:

1. Set up your cooker or stove, place a pot to fry the stew.

2. Pour the palm oil into the pot to heat and when it's change color from red to light red, pour the pounded Pepper, Onions, Tomatoes and grind the crayfish, and cook for 5 minutes.

3. After 5 minutes, add the following...

Rosted Fish,

Stock Fish,

Stock cubes,

Salt,

Ogiri okpei (Iru, Locust bean).

Cover and cook for about 10 minutes.

4. On under the 10 minutes, prepare the vegetables you have chosen to be your choice.

5. After 10 minutes, add your vegetables, and stir until all mixed together, cover and cook still it gets a good looking. Take note of not getting burn or overcooked. After about 2 minutes, you're done with the cooking of the Vegetables Soup "Efo Riro". Now enjoy with Amala, Semolina, Pounded Yam, Pounded Cocoa Yam, Eba, Fufu Meal, or Pap.

Please feel free to ask any questions about this recipe

How To Prepare Fried Fish Stew.

 

Fried Fish Stew, is one of the most popular stew in Nigerians recipes. It's use to eat; Boiled White Rice and Beans, Boiled White Rice, Boiled Beans, Boiled Yam, Fried Yam, Boiled Potatoes, Fried Potatoes, and some even go to the extent of adding it to there ; Jollof Spaghetti, Jollof Rice, Beans Porridge etc... And the major challenges many people face when preparing the Fried Fish Stew is that before the stew done, all the fish will have been scattered in the stew. But if you can follow this simple steps am about to share, it will help you prepare your stew and the fish will not get scattered.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED:

* 400 mls of Tomato Stew.
* 1kg of Mackerel (Titus)
* 1½ teaspoons of Thyme.
* 2 Onions.
* 2 Stock Cubes.
* Habanero Pepper (Atarodo, Ose Oyibo, Atarugu).
* 2 tablespoons of Crayfish.
* Salt. 

Notes About The Ingredients.

1. The Tomato Stew, should be fresh tomato puree (thick) or tomato paste that has been halfway cook to remove any traces of water or having a sour, acidic or citrus taste.

2. Mackerel (Titus), I can boldly say is the most popular fish in Nigerian market, and is the one mainly dedicated for preparing the Fried Fish Stew. Reason why I say this is that so many people don't go Mackerel (Titus) when it comes to using of fish in any recipes, not just because of any other things, but the price. And the problems behind any other fish is they are too soft to cook or fry, before finish up your cooking or frying, you find all your fish scattered in the Stew or frying pan.

Notes: "Am not saying that you can't make use of any kind of fish of your choice, but you have to be careful when using it".

3. So many people have always being asking me for the meaning of "Stock cubes", "Stock water" and even "Stock fish".

* Stock cubes: this is the seasoning cubes we all added to our cooking, popularly known as Magi.

* Stock water: this is the water you get from your meat or chicken or fish, when you boil them with seasoning cubes and other ingredients.

* Stock fish: is the popular cod or a similar fish split and dried in the open air without salt.

4. I always say, in all the recipe, we go crazy when it comes to the quantities of any ingredients, so any ingredients you are using should always be to your taste.

Before you proceed with your cooking.

1. Already, you have some Tomato Stew in freezer, bring it out and put it in warm water to defrost before you will need to use it in your cooking. But if you don't have, first of all, prepare some. Read on How to Prepare Tomato Stew by clicking here.

Notes: "it's good to always have it in your freezer, a large quantities of tomato stew. It helps you to prepare any recipes you will need it faster than not having it".

2. Cut your fish into any size of your choice and remove the intestine, but if it's egg keep it.

Notes: It's advisable to cut your fish while it's still frozen a little bit. This is to helps you have a good cuts.

3. Add some salt to the fish, then rub the salt allover the fish one after the other with your hands and set aside.

4. Slice one part of the onions and chop the other one part of it.

5. Now Pound or blend the habanero pepper (atarodo, ose oyibo, atarugu).


DIRECTIONS:

1. Set up your cooker or stove and place a clean pot on it.

2. Pour the chopped onions, then crush the stock cubes and add to it with the thyme.

3. Add the fish one after the other and pour small amount of water to it, at list the water level should be above the fish. Cook for 3 minutes or less.

4. After 3 minutes, check out the cooking, now the fish will have turned out white, bring them out one after the other and place in a sieve.

 Notes 1: you can just add salt and fry the fish straight away without cooking it at all, but the seasoning need to get into the fish.

Notes 2: To have a delicious stew, we need some fish stock (water from the fish after boiling with seasoning) while the stock water from the fish, give the stew some nice taste that will make the stew more delicious.

Notes 3: The boiling process helps to toughen the fish therefore it prevent the fish from disintegrating in the stew or when frying it.

5. Now set the fish stock aside and proceed.

6. Fry the fish with a small quantity of vegetable oil.

7. After frying the fish, set aside.

8. Set a new pot and pour the fish stock into it, to boil. 

Notes: if it not too cold, no need of boiling. Just add your tomato stew and habanero pepper.

9. When it boils, add the tomato stew and habanero pepper. Add more water if necessary, your stew most not be too watery, to get a good taste out of the stew. Make it thick a little bit and cook for like 5 minutes or less.

10. When it probably cooked, add salt to it and stir very well, cover and continue cooking until you see some oil floated on the surface of the stew. The oil from the Tomato Stew, stir again so that it won't burn.

12. After stirring, add your Fried Fish, you may add more water if necessary.
stir slowly and slowly, cover and simmer (cooking below a boiling point) for like 2 minutes, after that, your Fried Fish Stew is ready to go with White Boiled Rice and Beans, White Boiled Rice, Fried Yam, Boiled Yam, or Boiled Beans.

How To Prepare Mixed Yam & Vegetable Porridge

How To Prepare Mixed Yam & Vegetable Porridge. 




Preparing the recipe Mixed Yam & Vegetable Porridge, is one of the most popular and easy meal, you will always love to have most every night.


<sup>INGREDIENTS...^^ :

* 1 White Tuber Yam.
* Foliated Vegetable.
* Palm Oil.
* 5 Okra Fingers. (optional).
* 2 Medium Onions.
* Chilli Pepper.
* Grounded Crayfish.
* Salt.
* 2 Stock Cubes.


^^Note : before proceeding....^^

1. Get a blow of water and a kitchen knife to peel the yam, peel and divide the yam tuber into 4 equal parts, now chop each part into cubes, and pour the cubes into the blow of water.


2. Pick the Leafy of the vegetables, and wash it, then chop it to pieces. You can use any of the vegetables listed, Spinach, Fluted pumpkin, Green Amaranth, Water Leaves. And any other vegetables that are not listed.

3. Rinse and chop the onions and okra into tiny pieces. Set aside

4. Pound or Grind or blend the chilli pepper. Set aside


DIRECTIONS :

1. Set up your cooker or stove and place your pot.


^^Note</sup>... your pot should be big enough to accommodate all the cubes of yam.
Pour the yam cubes and add enough water to it, your water most be the same level with the yam cubes cover and continue cooking till the cubes are soft.


2. When the cubes are softened, you may pour out the water from the cooked yam, or leave it (it's optional) it's just to renew the water. Then add the following ingredients...


* Chopped Foliated Vegetable.
* Palm Oil.
* Chopped Okra. (optional).
* Chopped Onions.
* Pound or Grind or Blended Chilli Pepper.
* Grounded Crayfish.
* Salt.
* Stock Cubes.

Then. cover and continue cooking until the ingredients cooked with the yam.


3. After all the ingredients have cooked, stir with a wooden spoon till all the ingredients have mixed well. Then your Mixed Yam & Vegetable Porridge is ready to be served. Enjoy with chilled soft drinks.

Please we are always much more ready for any questions...

How To Extract Groundnut (Peanut) Milk.

How To Extract Groundnut (Peanut) Milk.


Anyone else who might have been worried about how to get or Extract Groundnut (Peanut) Milk!..

Let's safe you the stress of sleeplessness and daydreaming it and really have it done yourself. Done what? The Groundnut (Peanut) Milk.

I'm sure you must have tough about flat taste of fresh milk... If yes... Then you're in for a treat. Am about to show you how you can prepare the Groundnut (Peanut) Milk for yourself and enjoy with family and friends... best served with any type of snacks... its yummy I must say. Haven tasted it... its undeniable the best...



Ingredients Needed For Making Groundnut (Peanut) Milk.


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° 5 handfuls of Raw Groundnuts (Peanut).

° 1liter of Cool water.

° Vanilla extracts (Optional).

° Brown Sugar (Optional).


Notes on the ingredients I listed above...


1. I do get 1000mls of Groundnut(Peanut) Milk with 400g of raw groundnuts(peanuts). Although you can get more than that but it's advisable to make the one you and your family can finish at a time.


2. To save your time, it's advisable to buy peeled raw groundnuts (peanuts).

3. If you want to add any other flavours to groundnut (peanut), add them when blending the groundnuts (peanut). But it's also advisable to go for the natural delicious taste of
Groundnut (Peanut) Milk than adding flavours to it.


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4. As we all know that Raw Groundnuts (Peanuts) and some other food items contain aflatoxins "produced by molds of the Aspergillus genus, that can be toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic; typically found as contaminants of animal food or peanuts". To vote off this, boil the Groundnut (Peanut) Milk before Serving it.


Equipments Needed;

* A kitchen Blender. Of 600W power.

* A bowl and a chiffon cloth or ladies stocking/tights (pantyhose without the panty).

* A pot.

* A Stove or Electric Cooker or Gas Cooker.

* A Spatula.


Directions You Need To Follow For Making Groundnut (Peanut) Milk.


1. Soak the groundnuts (peanuts) in warm water blow 15°C for like 1hours 30minutes or till the skin become baggy.
Charge the water and replace with cool water. Then start rubbing the groundnuts between your palms, then you will note the skin peeling off, by the time you have all the skin peeled off, decant the groundnuts (peanuts) skin into another bowl, if not clean, repeat the same process with cold water. When it probably clean, pour into another bowl of cold water and leave to soak for 2hours 45minutes.


2. When the soaking is well done, confirm that by using your finger nail to cut it, if it's easy to cut then you are OK with your soaking. But if not soaked well it won't be easy to cut with nails. After confirming that the soaking is well ok, pour into a blender and blend with warm water till smooth.

3. After smooth blending, place a new clean bowl with cheese cloth or any chiffon material that does not allow the chaff to pass through to sieve it.


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4. When you are done with the sieveing, pour into a pot and cook on low medium heat for 5 minutes and keep stirring occasionally so that lumps do not form.

5. When it boils, off the heat or take off the pot from the heat and leave to cool down completely to 0.0°C,
remove the milk skin and serve chilled.


Serve and enjoy the Groundnut (Peanut) Milk with any Snack.


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How To Prepare Zobo Drink.

How To Prepare Zobo Drink.

Zobo; when ever I had zobo, what crosses my mind are "an ancient locally juice", not until I had about the benefits from my doctor and confirm it from another doctor. It has alot of medicinal properties which can help in High Blood Pressure, Constipation, Diabetes, Constipation, Lost of Appetite, Fever, Cold and Infection, Kidney Disease and Cancer. Is also known as Hibiscus sabdariffa Drinks.&nbsp; Haven't tasted it, its undeniable the best... It's a drink in which is slightly thick, colourful, pleasant and tasty. Nowadays Hibiscus sabdariffa leaf can still be used to make cold and hot tea. It has huge amounts of vitamin C.


INGREDIENTS NEEDED FOR THE ZOBO DRINK.

NOTE; with the following ingredients am about to list below is what I use to make 10litres of Zobo drink. Although you may get more than that with the same amount of ingredients but it depends on the concentration you want.


* 4 Milk Cups of dry Zobo leaves.

* 1½ Glove of Garlic.


* 1½ of Big Piece of Ginger or
2 tablespoonfuls of dry grounded Ginger.


* ½ of a very big owl ripe Pineapple.


* More than Enough waters.


Notes; Before you processed with the preparation of the Zobo drink.


1. Pour the dry Zobo leaves into a bowl of cold water and wash it repeatedly. Mostly in Nigeria the Zobo leaves sold are usually dusty so you have to select it and make sure you wash off all the dust. While washing the zobo leaves, you will feel like you have lost all the flavours and colour but NO, the dry zobo leaves still have a lot of colour when it starts to boil.


2. Wash, peel and slices the pineapple, and set aside.


3. If using the normal ginger, peel and chop the ginger and garlic into tiny pieces, and set aside.


Directions.

1. Set up your cooker or stove and place a deep pot on it, then pour the washed zobo leaves into the pot.


2. Pour the slices pineapples and add more than enough waters to it.
Notes; the water you will be adding depends on the amount of the zobo drink you wants.


3. Cook for about 10 minutes.


4. After 10 minutes, add the ginger and the garlic, if necessary add more water and continue cooking, cook for like 20 minutes. By then the zobo leaves and pineapples would have been tender.


5. Turn off the cooker or stove and keep the pot aside to cool down completely to 2°C.


6. When it completely cool down, pour into a sieve and squeeze out the juice from the left pineapples and zobo leaves on top the sieve.


7. At this point in time you can add any artificial flavours of your choice and stir together.


8. Pour into bottles or any tin and keep in freezers.
Serve with any snacks with ice and sliced fruits.

How To Prepare Groundnut (Peanut Soup).

How To Prepare Groundnut (Peanut Soup). 

 

 

Groundnut (Peanut Soup) is one of the best soup you will always go for when there's no Egusi Soup. It's prepare the same way your Egusi Soup is prepared. When you cannot find the egusi seed at your area where you live, don't lose hope, just go for the Groundnut Soup, is one of the best alternative.

Ingredients Needed For The Groundnut Soup.

* About 450g of Raw Peeled Groundnuts (peanuts).

* Cow Meat.

* Dry Fish.

* Shaki (cow tripe).

* Stock fish.
* Palm Oil

* One Handful of chopped Ugu (Pumpkin) leaves or 4 Cubes of Frozen Spinach or One handful of washed Bitterleaf or One handful of chopped Eggplant leaves.

* Two Tablespoonfuls of Grounded Crayfish.

* Two Tasty Cubes.

* Salt.

* Grounded dry Cayenne Pepper.

Notes about the Ingredients.

1. As we all know that apart from the nutrient palm oil add to your cooking, another main thing is the colour and sometimes add some taste to your if it's not over cook. That why I always add more than enough palm oil to my cooking.

2. Using Bitter leaves will only reduce the sweetness of the soup. But you can only use it when there's no any other alternative. As a matter of fact; some people don't care about the bitterness and it's even there one and only vegetable so if you are one of those, then you should use bitterleaves in preparing your soup.

3. You may be thinking why I go for Grounded dry Cayenne Pepper. You can also use fresh habanero peppers in place of the dry cayenne peppers. I use Grounded dry Cayenne Pepper because of my time of cooking.

4. You can use fried Groundnuts if you can't get the raw one, but it best you try and get the raw one.

5. Some have been sending me emails on most of the ingredients I list, mostly on the meat, dry fish, stock fish, and shaki (cow tripe). It's not most to use all of them, but you can use meat or shaki (cow tripe) with dry or stock fish.

Tool Needed For The Preparing Of The Groundnuts Soup.

* Melon Grinder or Grinding Stone, for grinding of the Groundnuts. 

Before You Proceed With The Cooking Of Groundnut Soup.

1. Boil the stockfish and dry fish with salt for like 20 minutes, or soak for at least one hour. When it soft, clean and  remove the bones, then separate them into smaller pieces. And set aside.

2. Set up your cooker or stove and place your frying pan on it to roast the raw groundnuts, stirring constantly till all dries up. Set aside for some time to cool,

3. When it cool, then grind into powder with a dry mill. And set aside.

4. Wash the chopped pumpkin leaves, or any vegetables of your choice. And set aside.

5. Gather all other ingredients and place near your side for the cooking.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Now set up your cooker or stove once again, and start with the cooking of shaki as it's the toughest past of the meat.

Notes: Your water level must be the same level as the contents of your cooking and you can top it if necessary.

2. After like 5 minutes, the shaki should have started to curl, add the dry fish, stockfish and the beef then add the tasty cubes and salt, then cook till all the meat and fish are well done. You may add more water if necessary.

3. After like 5 more minutes, Add the crayfish and pepper, then cover and continue cooking.

4. When it all done, remove the meat, shaki and fish to a plate and set aside. leave the stock in the pot.

5. Now pour the grounded groundnuts and start stirring continuously till they are lumps.

6. When stirring, you may top up the water if necessary. To avoid burning, you have to keep on stirring.

7. When stirring, note when the thin oil from the groundnut appears on the
surface. It may takes up to 15 minutes.

8. Add palm oil and stir very well.

9. Add the beef, shaki and fish, then stir and continue cooking.

10. Some people prefer their egusi or groundnut soup without vegetables, so if you are one of those, then the Groundnuts Soup is READY. But for we that love it with vegetables, then add it and take off the cooker or stove, and simmer for like 3 minutes.

When you wanna serve it, stir and serve the Groundnut Soup and enjoy with Amala, Semolina, Pounded Yam, Pounded Cocoa Yam, Eba, Fufu Meal, or Pap.

How To Prepare Bitterleaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu).

How To Prepare Bitterleaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu). 

Bitterleaf soup is one of the local traditional soups in Nigeria. It is native to the Yorubas and the Igbos and even part of the Northern. The name is quite Oops; it can even mislead someone hearing it for the first time, a well prepared Bitterleaf shouldn't or will not have a much taste of bitterness. The only way to achieve this, is by washing and squeezing the bitter leaves then change the water, till all traces of bitterness has been washed away.

INGREDIENTS:

* Washed and squeezed bitterleaf - Two handful.

* 5 small corms Cocoyam.

* 4 cooking spoons of Palm Oil.

* ½kg of Beef.

* ½kg of Shaki (cow tripe).

* Dry Fish.

* Stock Fish.

* Grounded Crayfish.

* Habanero Pepper.

* Salt. 

* 4 Stock Cubes.

* 3 Teaspoonful Ogiri Igbo (traditional seasoning).

Notes;

1. You can as well use dried, washed and squeezed bitter leaves, all you will need to do first is to soak in warm water for 30 minutes, this make the bitter leaves soft and look fresh again before adding them to the soup.

2. I have find the whole market, and I can't get cocoyam corms, what should I do? You can use cocoyam flour. And what if I can't still find cocoyam flour! is that the end? "No" another best alternative for the two is potato flour.
I don't know how to prepare this!. Visit the cocoyam flour or potato flour, to read more about it and how to prepare them.

3. Most I use the Ogiri Igbo!. "No" it's optional, but it's highly recommend. It helps give the Bitterleaf Soup a good aroma and traditional taste and help clear your eyes.

4. Pound or blend the Habanero Pepper and set aside.

Before you proceed with the preparation of the Bitterleaf Soup.

1. Confirm that the bitter leaves are probably washed, in the sense that there will be no trace of bitterness. So therefore if you still feel the bitterness, wash and squeeze with palm oil for like two times. After that you still feel the bitterness, boil it for completely 30 minutes with salt, after cooking, wash in cold water.

2. Peel the cocoyam and wash and cook for 30 minutes or till soft. Pound with mortar and pestle to a smooth paste. Don't forget to add the water to the pounding, if possible water you use in cooking it or warm water.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Set up your cooker or stove, place a sizable pot to boil the shaki (cow tripe), stock fish and dry fish with about one litre of water, cook for ten minutes, or till when the shaki (cow tripe) started to curling on itself.

2. When the shaki (cow tripe) started to curl, wash and add the beef and cook for about three minutes or less, then add the tasty cubes (Maggi) and salt then cook for five minutes.

3. After five minutes, your shaki (cow tripe), beef, stock fish and dry fish should be done by then. Add pepper, grounded crayfish, wash and squeeze bitter leaves and cook for 15 minutes, before adding the cocoyam paste and the palm oil, salt to taste. Stir all together and the soup is ready to serve with Garri (Eba) , Semolina Fufu, Amala, Cassava Fufu or Pounded Yam.

Notes; If you didn't cook the bitter leaves before losing the bitterness, then you have to continue the cooking after adding the bitter leaves at least cook for five minutes.

How To Prepare Mixed Okra With Vegetables.

How To Prepare Mixed Okra With Vegetables. 

Okra Soup is one of the fastest and quickest soup, in the easiest part of Nigerian . It's known as Miyan Kubewa in the northern part of Nigerian.

INGREDIENTS :

* 15 Pieces Okraof.

* 2 Cooking Spoonful of Palm oil.

* Cow meat.

* Shaki "Cow Tripe".

* Iced Fish "Titus".

* Stockfish.

* Half milk cup of crayfish.

* Ground Pepper.

* Salt.

* Ugu leaves.

* 2 stock cubes.

* 2 Spoonful of Ogiri okpei. 

Before you proceed with the cooking of Okra Soup, prepare the following...

1. Boil the stockfish, leave in the pot
with the hot water to soak for good 15 minutes.

2. Cut the okra into tiny pieces.

Notes "The tinier you cut the okra, the more it will draw. To achieve this, you need to Grater for the Okra".

3. Grind the crayfish. "it's optional".

4. Grind the ogiri okpei. "it's optional".

5. Pick and Wash the Ugu leaves, and chop into tiny pieces.

DIRECTIONS :

1. Set up your cooker or stove, then place a pot to cook the shaki with onion and salt.

2. When the shaki is well done, you can take a bite to confirm. add the beef, stock cubes, and continue cooking till the beef is done.

3. When the beef is done, add the iced fish and the soak stockfish, and cook till done.

4. When all done together, pour into a sieve to drain out the stock, and set aside.

5. Place a new pot for the cooking. Now divide the stock into 4 equally part, and pour one part of it in the new pot.

6. Add the okar, Palm oil, stock cube, salt, vegetable, crayfish, Ogiri okpei, pepper, beef, shaki, Stockfish, and other ingredients. Now stir well with a wooden spoon.

5. Cover and leave to simmer for 5 minutes, and it is ready to be served.

Notes: you may divide the Shaki, Beef, StockFish, and Iced Fish into a "single serve" (as we know that okar is a day soup, so that why you need to divide them.)

Now serve with Eba (Garri) , Cassava Fufu, Semolina Fufu, Amala, Tuwo Shinkafa, or Pounded Yam .