HOW TO PREPARE BANANA BREAD

INGREDIENT           QUANTITIES

Water                        (Lukewarm) 1 cup
Salt                             1/4 Table spoon
Margarine                50g
Flour                          300g
Eggs                            1g
Sugar                         70g
Yeast                          1/2 teaspoon
Banana                     3 pieces

PREPARATION PROCEDURE

1. Peel and blend the banana
2. With rubbing in method, mix all the ingredients together (flour, sugar, margarine)
3. Beat the egg and add water to it.
4. Pour the egg and water inside the mixture
5. Pour banana paste
6. Mix all thoroughly to form a dough
7. Knead for 10 minutes
8. Put in a greased bowl and cover with a clean handkerchief
9. Allow for about 1½ hours
10. Knock back the dough and knead again
11. Cut into your desired shape and put of in a tray or bread pan
12. Cover with polythene until it becomes double inside or more
13. Pre-heat the oven
14. Bake until it becomes golden brown
15. Remove from oven and allow to cool
16. You can serve with juice or any drink of your choice

how to prepare different types of salad.

•    TOMATO-PEACH SALAD
Toss tomato and peach wedges with red onion slices. Drizzle with cider vinegar and olive oil; season with sugar, salt and pepper.

•    HERB SALAD
Whisk 1 part lemon juice with 3 parts olive oil, and salt and pepper. Toss with dill, basil, chives, tarragon and lettuce.



•    SPICY CARROT SALAD
Ingredients
1.    Grated carrot
2.    ¼ cup of water
3.    Minced garlic
4.    Olive oil
5.    Lemon juice
6.    Red pepper flakes
7.    Parsley
8.    Salt
Procedure
1.    Microwave grated carrots and minced garlic in 1/4 cup water until crisp-tender. 
2.    Drain; toss with lemon juice, olive oil, salt, red pepper flakes and parsley.

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


 

how to prepare ujuju soup

•    UJUJU SOUP
Ingredients
1.    8 pieces of meat
2.    1 medium smoked fish
3.    2 wrap of ogiri
4.    I tin tomatoes
5.    Ground crayfish
6.    Half milk cup of palm oil
7.    I tablespoon ground pepper
8.    4 cups of water
9.    Two maggi cube (seasoning)
10.    Salt
11.    A bundle of ujuju leave
Procedure
1.    Wash meat and fish
2.    Prepare the ujuju leaves by removing the back midribs, wash in salty cold water
3.    Pound the leaves to give a paste of dropping consistency
4.    Mash the ogiri to a smoother in a mortar with a pestle
5.    Add fish, ground crayfish, pepper and palm oil and leave to boil for about 10 minutes
6.    Add  the vegetable(ujuju) and simmer for 10 minutes
7.    Season with salt and maggi cube(or any other seasoning)
8.    Serve with pounded yam, eba or fufu.

how to prepare banga jollof rice

            NIGERIAN DISH
•    BANGA JOLLOF RICE
Ingredients
1.    30 palm fruits (banga)
2.    2 cups of rice
3.    2 medium smoked fish
4.    2 tablespoon ground crayfish
5.    1 maggi cube
6.    4 fresh tomatoes
7.    1 medium onions
8.    4 medium fresh pepper
9.    Salt to taste
Procedures.                
1.    Boil palm fruit till soft
2.    Pound already cooked palm fruits in a mortar until the palm fibers leave the nut.
3.    Pour some clean water into the already pounded banga, mix well, squeeze the palm fibers and sift out the filtrate.
4.      Wash and parboil rice.
5.    Place the filtrate on the fire to boil.
6.    Add chopped tomatoes, onions, pepper, crayfish, maggi cube (seasoning) and salt. Allow to boil.
7.    Wash and debone fish. Add fish to the mixture on the fire
8.    Add the parboiled rice and stir
9.    Allow to simmer until the rice is cooked and all the liquid is absorbed.
10.    Serve hot

how to prepare kheer - India rice pudding

•    KHEER (INDIA RICE PUDDING)
Ingredients

1.    8 tablespoon of  jasmine rice
2.    3 tablespoon of unsalted butter
3.    1 teaspoon of  lightly crushed saffron
4.    1 teaspoon of  ground cardamom
5.    8 cups of milk
6.    8 tablespoon of light brown sugar
7.    1⁄2 cup slivered almonds, toasted
8.    1⁄2 cup thinly sliced pistachios
Procedure
1.    Place rice in a fine strainer, and rinse under running water until water runs clear; drain thoroughly.
2.    Heat butter in a 10" skillet over medium heat; 
3.    Add rice, saffron, and cardamom, and cook, stirring until lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. 
4.    Add milk, and cook, stirring occasionally, until milk is reduced by half and rice is tender, about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
5.    Add brown sugar ( or jaggary), almonds, and half of the pistachios, and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes. 
6.    Transfer to a serving bowl, and garnish with remaining pistachios before serving.

how to prepare ogbono soup- Nigeria dish

•    OGBONO SOUP
Ingredients
1.    Beef – 500g
2.    2 large dried fish
3.    I tomato cup of ogbono
4.    Half cup of crayfish
5.    3 desert spoons of palm oil
6.    I teaspoon dried pepper
7.    Seasoning – 2 cubes
8.    Vegetable(pumpkin leave) – 30g
9.    Salt
Procedures
1.    Cut beef, wash and boil for 30 minutes
2.    Keep the palm oil in a pot using low heat, melt the ground ogbono in the oil
3.    Add the ground pepper and crayfish to the boiling water and boil for 5 minutes
4.    Add the ogbono to the boiling water, then add the washed fish and salt to taste and allow it to boil for 10 minutes
5.    Add vegetable and cook for 5 minutes
6.    Serve with pounded yam or eba.



•    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 braised rice

BRAISED RICE


Ingredients


1.    Rice – 4 cups


2.    Chicken – 500g


3.    Stock, preferably chicken stock – 120ml


4.    Onion – 1 bulb


5.    Butter – 50g


6.    Maggi – 1 cube


Procedure


1.    Parboil the rice


2.    Add 25g of butter in a pan


3.    Add onion, cook gently for 2 minutes without coloring


4.    Add the rice, cook gently without coloring for 2 minutes


5.    Add the stock to rice


6.    Season, cover and allow it to boil


7.    Place in a hot oven for about 15 minutes until it is cooked


8.    Remove immediately into a sauce pan and mix in the remaining butter


9.    Check well for seasoning and serve

India food recipes

•    SAMOSAS
Ingredients
1.    5 cups of flour
2.    8 tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed and chilled
3.    Kosher salt, to taste
4.    1⁄2 cup ice-cold water
5.    1 lb. russet potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
6.    4 carrots, roughly chopped
7.    3 tablespoon of canola oil
8.    1 teaspoon of cumin seeds
9.    1 small yellow onion, minced
10.    1⁄2 cup frozen peas, defrosted
11.    1⁄2 cup minced cilantro
12.    1⁄2cup minced mint
13.    1⁄2 teaspoon  garam masala
14.    2 small green Thai chiles or 1 serrano, minced
15.    1 (1") piece of ginger, peeled and minced
16.    Tamarind and coconut-cilantro chutneys, for serving (optional)
Procedures
1.    Make the dough - Pulse flour, butter, and salt in a food processor into pea-size crumbles.
2.    Add water; pulse until dough forms. Divide into 12 balls; chill 1 hour.
3.    Make the filling: Boil potatoes and carrots in a 4-qt. saucepan of salted water until tender, 8–10 minutes. Drain; coarsely mash. 
4.    Add 2 tbsp. oil to pan; heat over medium-high. Cook cumin seeds until they pop, 1–2 minutes. 
5.    Add onion and ginger; cook until golden, 4–6 minutes. 
6.    Allow it to cool; stir into potato mixture with peas, cilantro, mint, garam masala, chiles, and salt.
7.    Form and fry samosas: Working with 1 ball at a time
8.    roll dough into a 6" round; cut in half. Gather straight edges of 1 half-round together, overlapping by 1⁄4" to form a cone. Moisten seam with water; press to seal. Spoon 1 tbsp. filling into cone.
9.    Moisten edges of cone with water; pinch to seal. Heat 2" oil in a 6-qt. saucepan until a deep-fry thermometer reads 350°. Fry samosas until crisp, 8–10 minutes. Drain on paper towels; serve with chutneys if you like.

How to prepare gulab jamun - India dish

INDIAN DISH
•    GULAB JAMUN
Ingredients
1.      2  cups of  dry powdered milk
2.       5 tablespoons  flour
3.        4 tablespoons ghee (clarified butter), melted
4.        1 teaspoon of baking powder
5.        1 cup of warm milk
6.        2 tablespoon chopped almonds (if you like)
7.        A pinch of ground cardamom
8.        1 quart vegetable oil for deep frying
9.        1 1/4 cups white sugar
10.        7 fluid ounces water
11.        1 teaspoon of rose water
Procedures
1.    Mix water, sugar and ground cardamoms together
2.    Mix the flour, milk powder and soda together
3.    Add ghee and  then mix it very well
4.    Make 18 to 20 equal sized balls and heat up the pan with ghee or oil
5.    Add the balls when the ghee is just medium hot
6.    Then Fry the balls until golden stirring uniformly.
7.    Add them to the hot syrup.

learn how to cook calabar soup - edikan ikon soup

•    EDIKAN IKON SOUP (CALABAR)
Ingredients
1.    Stock fish – 150g
2.    Beef – 250g
3.    Dried fish – 250g
4.    Kpomo – 100g
5.    Fresh pepper – 10 seeds
6.    Pumpkin leave – 2 kg
7.    Water leaf – 1 kg
8.    Onions – 1 bulb
9.    Palm oil – 2 desert spoon
10.    Crayfish – 20g
11.    Seasoning – 2 cubes
12.    Salt
Procedure
1.    Cut beef, season and boil
2.    Add stock fish and wash kpomo, cut into small pieces
3.    Add dried fish
4.    Cut the leaves into tiny piece
5.    Add little water if possible e.g 1 cup
6.    Add the ground pepper, onions and crayfish
7.    Add all the vegetables
8.    Add the palm oil
9.    Add little salt and seasoning
10.    Allow to Simmer for about 5 minutes
11.    Serve with pounded yam, fufu or eba

How to prepare Indian dishes

•    PRAWN CURRY
Ingredients
1.    Fresh prawn, 15 to 20 large size
2.    Onions – 3 bulbs
3.    Garlic – 3 cloves
4.    Groundnut oil – 1 large spoon
5.    Curry powder – 1 large spoon
6.    Tomatoes
7.    Water – half cup
8.    Stock or coconut milk
9.    Salt
Procedure
1.    Shell and clean prawn
2.    Chop up onions and garlic
3.    Fry the chopped onions and garlic until brown
4.    Add curry powder and fry until brown
5.    Add salt, tomatoes, the water or stock and the prawn
6.    Boil gently for 15 – 20 minutes.

HOW TO PREPARE HAMBURGER

          INGREDIENTS
Flour.                   500g
Fat.                       50g
Onion.                   1 bulb
Yeast.                    1 tablespoon
Grated nutmeg.     pinch
Sugar.                     100g
Minced meat.         300g
Vegetable oil.        2 tablespoon
Seasoning.             1 cube
Salt.                        Pinch

           PROCEDURE
1. Mix flour with yeast, sugar, nutmeg, salt, egg, milk and fat to make bread
2. Season the minced meat with onion, seasoning and vegetable oil.
3. Roll out and cut sizes of mould.
4. Put in greased pans to bake or cook on a grill.
5. Slice bread but do not cut completely.
6. In-between the bread, place the hamburger meat, fresh tomatoes, steamed or pickled cucumber, blanched onions, tomato ketchup.