Food Inspiration

Celebrating fruits and vegetables #healthyeating

Puff puff

This is like the easiest snack to make in the whole wide world.

Ingredients:

1kg flour 

300g sugar

2 tbs yeast

4 cups water

Method:

Assemble ingredients 

Measure them

Place in a bowl

Add water and mix

Leave to rise in a warm place for an hour or doubled in bulk.

Mix to remove excessive bubbles.

Fry in hot oil.

When one side is browned, flip over.

And here you go

Teriyaki beef

Teriyaki beef with grilled bell peppers and red onions.

After seasoning the bell peppers and red onions with soy sauce, black pepper and knorr, add few drops of oil and chargrill in a hot griddle. Till it looks like this…

Next I had marinated beef strips (shredded beef) overnight with Soy sauce, brown sugar, pepper, salt, ginger and garlic. Also added Knorr and Cameroun pepper for the Nigerian kick. I then pan seared it in a lightly oiled pan.

The brown sugar gives it lovely caramelization.

Next toast beniseed/ sesame seed

Incorporate everything together with stock made from water, corn starch slurry (little corn starch mixed with water), any of the seasoning you used before, sesame oil and sweet chili sauce. Bring to boil for 5 minutes.

Sorry picture no clear : )

Serve on a bed fluffy and not al dente rice. And its good with any rice: basmati, short grain, long grain, local, foreign, ofada, brown, wild, tuwon shinkafa rice or what have you.

 

 

Papaya and Fura Fool

Creamy papaya and fura fool garnished with mint sprig

Toss the papaya, fura, yoghurt, sugar into the blender and whirr away.

Add few drops of vanilla essence and there you go

 

 

Rustic Coconut Rice

Voila! my Sunday ensemble.

So I fried onions in vegetable oil then added dried fish and beef stock and seasoned with salt, knorr and cameroun pepper.

Then I added the coconut powder to get this

Next you …

Add the par boiled rice and out comes this

 

Today

Breakfast

Lunch

Cooking with vegetables

Cooking with vegetables should be part of your daily routine.

Healthy eating

Portions

Healthy eating

Vegetable Salad

Made vegetable salad for a friend and I to fight the high calories we consumed over Christmas, lol.

Ingredients:

Lettuce shredded

Cabbage shredded

Carrot grated

Cucumber diced

Tomatoes seeded and chopped

Green pepper chopped

Onions sliced into rings

Baked beans

Boiled eggs

Parsley

 

Method:

Arrange the vegetables in layers in the order above.

Garnish the top with baked beans, eggs, onions and parsley.

Store in the fridge until ready to serve.