how to prepare fried rice

•    FRIED RICE
Ingredients
1.    Rice – 4 cups
2.    Onions – 1 bulb
3.    Green peas – 50g
4.    Green pepper – 70g
5.    Carrots – 70g
6.    Liver – 280g
7.    Curry – 2 tablespoon
8.    Thyme – 1 tablespoon
9.    White pepper – 1 tablespoon
10.    Butter – 300 mm
11.    Beef – 220g
12.    Chicken – 220g
13.    Groundnut oil
14.    Maggi cube (2 cubes)
15.    Salt
Procedure
1.    Wash the meat and boil it for 30 minutes
2.    Cut the ingredients for the fried rice- cut the carrot, onions, green pepper and liver into separate bowls
3.    Parboil the rice
4.    Put the stock gotten from the water used in cooking the chicken and beef in a sauce pan and allow to boil
5.    Season with maggi, curry, thyme, salt and other ingredients. Allow it to boil for 5 minutes
6.    Wash the parboiled rice and cook in the stock. Allow it to boil for 15 minutes. Meanwhile fry the vegetables, liver, using vegetable oil.
7.    Fry the boiled rice in the mixture for approximately 2 minutes
8.    Melt the butter in it
9.    Add the remaining stock and allow it to cook for 30 minutes
10.    Serve with fried beef or chicken


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how to prepare nsala soup

•    NSALA SOUP
Ingredients
1.    Chicken – 500g
2.    Uziza seeds – 6
3.    Utazi leaves
4.    Dried pepper
5.    Crayfish – 20g
6.    Seasoning – 2 cubes
7.    Yam slice – 1 piece(for thickening)
8.    Dried fish
9.    Udah – 2 seeds
10.    Ewulu – 2 seeds
11.    Salt
Procedures
1.    Wash and season chicken to boil for 15 minutes
2.    Add dried fish, yam pieces to boil for 5 minutes
3.    Add all the spices, ground crayfish, pgiri, pepper, salt and seasoning and Cook for 5 minutes
4.    Pound yam and use it to thicken the soup.
5.    Boil until the yam for thickening is well blended
6.    Serve with pounded yam fufu

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how to prepare starch

STARCH

Ingredients

1.    4 cups garri starch

2.    750mm boiling water

3.    2 tablespoon palm oil

Procedures

1.    Mix the starch to a thick paste with clean cold water in a cooking pot that has been greased with the palm oil to prevent the starch from sticking to the pot. The greasing also helps to improve the color

2.    Add the boiled water, stirring all the  time

3.    Cook, over heat while stirring with a long wooden spoon

4.    When the starch is smooth and its of good consistency, put in a wet plate and serve with banga soup or any other soup

how to prepare water yam pudding

•    WATER YAM PUDDING
Ingredients
1.    1 small water yam
2.    1 small desert spoon of pepper
3.    Chopped meat or smoked fish
4.    One and half cups of palm oil
5.    1 teaspoon ground onions
6.    Salt
Procedures
1.    Peel and wash the yam grate it in to a clean bowl
2.    Warm the oil
3.    Mix the grated yam vigorously until light and smooth
4.    Add the chopped meat and fish and mix well
5.    Add oil, ground pepper, onions, maggi and salt to the mixture and stir well
6.    Wrap in leaves and steam for 1 – 2 hours
7.    Serve hot.

how to prepare plantain pudding

•    PLANTAIN PUDDING
Ingredients
1.    2 medium size ripe plantain
2.    3 cups of plantain flour
3.    2 dessert spoons ground red pepper
4.    2 dessert spoon ground onions
5.    Salt to taste
6.    One and half cup of red palm oil
7.    Smoked fish
Procedures
1.    Peel and wash ripe plantain
2.    Beat the plantain in a mortar until it is soft and smooth
3.    Add the plantain flour and mix well
4.    Add salt, pepper and other seasoning and mix well
5.    Add the warm palm oil and mix properly
6.    Add some warm water and mix to a dropping consistency
7.    Add the smoked fish
8.    Wrap in leaves and steam for one and half hour to two hours depending on size
9.    Serve hot or cold.

how to prepare banga soup

•    BANGA SOUP
Ingredients
1.    6 milk cup of Palm fruits
2.    I medium fish
3.    8 pieces of goat meat
4.    1 teaspoon of grounded pepper
5.    I medium onions
6.    8 uda seeds(ground)
7.    Half teaspoon crushed dried bitter leave (washed bitter leave)
8.    One and half bottles of water
9.    Salt
Procedures
1.    Wash the palm fruits, pour it into a pot, add water and cover the pot, then allow it to boil until tender
2.    Squeeze the juice from the palm fruits using up the one and half bottles of water
3.    Leave in the bowl for 5 minutes for particles to settle and then filter the juice into a sauce pan
4.    Put the sauce pan on fire with the meat and allow to boil until it is fairly thick
5.    Add the pepper, salt,  seasoning, including the grounded uda seed.
6.    Wash the fish and add it into the soup
7.    Cook for about 15 minutes till fish is cooked and the soup is tasty
8.    Bring down the pot of soup from the fire and serve with pounded yam or eba.

how to prepare pounded yam

•    POUNDED YAM

Ingredients

1.    1 tuber of yam

2.    2 bottles of water

Procedure

1.    Wash the yam, peel and wash once more

2.    Cut into small pieces

3.    Put into the pot and boil for about 15 minutes

4.    Pound Into a fine smooth dough and serve with ujuju soup, pepper soup or any soup of your choice