Meal of the week 4

Akara (bean cake)

Hi everyone, wishing you all a beautiful Happy Easter !

We're officially at the end of March and this means this will be my last 'meal of the week' , but I have some fun things planned for April so stay posted.

But for my last meal I've decided to share how to make 'Akara' or bean cakes which has similar ingredients to my ' moin moin elewe' dish however this is fried rather than steamed.


Ingredients

• Black eyed beans (peeled)
• 1 onion 
• 1 scotch bonnet
• 1 Maggie and salt to taste
• 1 egg
• Fresh prawns

1. Blend the beans, 1/2 onion and scotch bonnet in a blender adding some water to allow the mixture to blend properly until you have a smooth mix with no lumps (This is very important). 

2. When you have a smooth mix you can add the other 1/2 of the onion finely chopped, 1 egg, the prawns and maggie and salt to taste and mix all together

3. Add some oil to a frying pan and add the mixture in spoon fulls and allow to fry on both sides until cooked for about 10-12mins

4. The Akara is then ready to eat and can be eaten alone with some custard or oghi (made from corn similar to custard)

Enjoy 

p.s make sure you have a good blender with enough power to blend the beans.  

Meal of the Week 3

Jollof Rice 

 Ingredients

• 1tin of plum tomato
• 1 1/2 cups of rice
• 1 paprika
• 1 onion
• 1scotch bonnet
• 1 tomato 
• puree
• Maggie, chicken seasoning, all purpose, curry powder,thyme to taste 

1. Blend the plum tomato, onion,scotch bonnet and paprika together in a blender until

you have a smooth paste 

2. Add the mix to a pot of hot oil and one spoon of puree, and all the above seasoning to taste. Allow to cook for about 15 mins

3. In the mean time you will need to rinse the rice under cold water several times 
just to remove any starch

4. Then add your rice to the tomato sauce and cover and leave to cook for about 10 mins, you may add water as desired if the rice is still hard. Occasionally turn the rice to prevent burning

5. When the rice is almost ready I add slices of one fresh tomato. Cover the pot with foil and allow the rice to steam 


6. Once ready leave to rest for about 5 mins and then serve 

Honey Garlic marinated chicken and plantain to accompany 

Enjoy 

Train track veggie market

I recently came across this video, and I thought it was to good not to share. When it comes to grocery shopping  I'm very much used to heading down to my local market or grocery store but this takes it to another level!!!

 I'll let you see for yourself

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