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In using this method, three actions are important: Sauteing onions as a base for rice: Doing this prevents it from easily sticking to the bottom of the pot, and gives it the sweet flavor of onions which contributes to the overall taste of the fried rice. Adding salt to onions when frying: this is a process that helps to draw out moisture from the onions. Washing rice with salt: This is an age-long method of reducing the starch level in rice. Typically, the process washes off some starch present in the rice into the water used for washing.

Over the past few years, scientists have continued to seek for ways to make life easier for the Nigerian who loves pounded yam but loathes the stress involved in making this highly delectable Nigerian meal. This adventure has been indeed successful with the discovery of different machines and alternative pounded yam known as poundo yam. The commercial grinding mill is …

Pounded yam is a native food in Nigeria which can be prepared with the use of a food processor instead of mortar and pestle. Read the recipe below as a guide to preparing pounded yam with a Food Processor.

There are different methods of preparing cookies and truly, there’s no one method that fits everyone’s taste. However, if you love your cookies crunchy and milky, this crunchy milk butter cookies recipe is a good deal for you. Crunchy Milk Butter Cookies Made at Home Through this period of COVID-19, quarantine and homeschooling, one of the many questions in the …

I got my first ever Non-stick pan in 2016. I wanted to partake in Peak Milk’s cooking competition where I was to make an omelette and I didn’t have a frying pan. Prior to that period, as a student, I did all my frying inside a small pot. However, for the purpose of the competition and because of some other 5 …

If you want to prepare the tongue blowing Nigerian smoky Jollof rice or if you desire to add some extra topping to make your regular method of preparation notch, you should proceed to learn how to prepare smoky Jollof rice as described below. With this recipe, you can never go wrong with the Nigerian Jollof rice.

Do you know this weary feeling you get after cooking for your entire neighbourhood and you become unable to eat the delicious food you made? Recently, it was my cousin’s birthday and I spent approximately 10hours in the kitchen on that day. Myself, his mom which is my aunt and my sister went from frying a carton of fish to …

In the last days of my grandpa which happened to be the only period that I spent with him, I presumed that fresh unripe plantain fufu was his favourite food because of how often he ate it. He ate plantain in all forms: boiled, amala, plantain fufu and pounded plantain. Years after the death of my grandpa, I got to learn the nutritional benefits of plantain and it is now a highly rated food for me. In this post, I shared how to prepare plantain fufu with fresh unripe plantain which is a healthy choice of food because of its complex carbohydrate content.

As I often gape at the varieties of fruits in the world, this time, the fruit that has my attention is golden melon which is also known as sweet melon or honeydew melon. Unlike a month or two ago, golden melon has become the fruit in town. Walking through the streets of a city in Nigeria this period, there’s a …

NYSC- National Youth Service Corps, a 1-year programme for every Nigerian graduate is a period of vast experience for various participants of the programme. From being the beginning of a great life for some, it also happens to be the beginning or continuation of a not-so-great life for some. However, because life is to every man his own, as a …