NIGERIAN PANCAKE RECIPE!

Anytime I am at home, the only thing bobo josh (younger brother) keeps shouting all day is- 'when will you 

make pancakes for me? Then he goes ahead to remind me of my promise the 'day before sometimes around last month' when I told him I will make pancakes for him. He will start guilt tripping me till he gets my heart pricked then I go ahead to make another promise of making him pancakes the next day which obviously I won't keep. LOL

So, on Friday morning, he just change matter for me oh, see this small boy spitting verse for me because of pancakes, it was just me and him at home and I could see that he was really vexed. Ordinary pancakes oh! So I just sighed heavily and started gathering ingredients to make pancakes, which I am about to share its recipe!
ENJOY!

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AKARA BALLS RECIPE!

AKARA is one of the most popular breakfast staples in Nigeria.  It was one of my life savers back in FUTA! Rescue junction Akara balls!! BLISS *covers face* It is popularly served with ogi (pap) or bread. Although, some people prefer moinmoin to akara, I talked about it in one of my recent posts here.  

     Anyway, let's get on with the recipe!

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MOINMOIN RECIPE!!!

MoinMoin is one of the most popular breakfast staples in Nigeria.  It is  pronounced as Moin Moin, Moy Moy, Mai Mai or as I gladly call it Moyin Moyin *shines teeth* is a traditional Nigerian food made with steamed ground beans and enriched with spices. Finish.

 Moyin Moyin is  mostly served at parties, and usually eaten alone as meal or served with other meals. This delicious meal can be cooked in various ways and methods,  although I prefer

cookng it in leaves. (Thaumatococcus daniellii) and I would really love to show you how!  Enjoy!

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FOOD BUCKET LIST !!!

Hello Foodie Fam!

 Food is super important: it helps us live and we live for it. Just like one toon I watched 'The Croods' said 'Food makes everything easier' I couldn't agree more. We center our social events on food- party Jollof rice is a Nigerian definition of hope. Most of our good memories are based on food, and it makes us feel better. Amirite?

  Bucket list is just list of things you wanna try out before you kpef. *straight face* as humans, we do not know when that time is, but we can try as much as possible to enjoy our stay here on earth and have good food memories. Sharing this post makes me so emotional, maybe it's because of my strong attachment with my food bucket list or it's the hormones. I really can't say *stares at feets*

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CHAPMAN RECIPE !!!

Chapman is so easy to make! It's propably the easiet drink to make💅. If you're on my IG, you'll have seen Chapman drink in my recent photos. I had it for my birthday, and I promised to share the recipe! Here you go:

INGREDIENTS

·        Angostura Aromatic Bitters (the most essential ingredient) 

·        Angostura Grenadine Syrup (to get it to the lovely red colour)

·         A bottle of Orange Fruit Juice or  Fanta (I prefer fanta)

·        Carbonated Lemonade/ Lime Drink -Sprite or 7up

·         Blackcurrant Cordial / Syrup (Ribena) rich source of Vitamins for kids

·        Garnish: Slices of lemon/ Lime Slices of cucumber

·        Umbrella ( for garnishing )

·        Glass cup

DIRECTION

1. Fill half of the empty glass cup with ice cubes.

2. Add a slice of Cucumber and Lemon/Lime.

3. Add about 4 dashes of the Angostura Aromatic Bitters( the key ingredient)               

4. If you're using 1 litre pack of fruit juice,  pour 1/4 of the pack, but if you're using a bottle of plastic fanta, pour 1/3 of the bottle.  

            5.  Pour in 1/3 of a plastic of Sprite or 7up

6. Pour in small quantitiy of blacurrant cordial (vitamins for the kids)

7. Lastly, add the Angostura Grenadine Syrup to get that lovely and attractive R-E-D C-O-L-O-U-R!               

8. Stir with straw or a cocktail stirrer!

You can see for yourself that it is so easy to make!  You can even make it for your social gatherings. Now that the sun is scorching and temperature has drastically increased, spice up your meals with a glass cup of chapman and your life will never remain the same! LOL.

If you have any questions, don't forget to hit me up on all my social media platforms!

    *Blows Kiss*

           

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NIGERIAN EGG BUNS

Nigerian Egg Buns is majorly known as 'Egg Roll' because it is basically egg rolled in pastry and deep fried. Shikena! It is very similar to scoth egg, but instead of sausage meat flour, pastry is used to wrap the boiled egg. Some people prefer it being soft on the outside like puff puff, while some, including me enjoy it being crunchy- since it's basically Nigerian buns on the outside and egg in the middle.

 INGREDIENTS

·        500g/5 cups of Wheat flour/confectionery flour.

·        15 Eggs

·        ½ teaspoon flavour

·        100g of Margarine. (One sachet of  butter is 250g, so 100g should be about half of a sachet butter)

·        3/4 cups of granulated sugar

·        Pinch of salt

·        1 teaspoon of baking powder. 

·         Water for Mixing

·        Vegetable Oil (for frying)

·        Rolling Pin

·        Mixing Bowl.

DIRECTIONS

1. In a medium sized pot, boil the 15 eggs for about 10mins till hard boiled. Once cooked and while hot, place the hard boiled eggs in cold water. This is to ensure the shell

comes off easily.

2. Sieve the  flour, flavour  and baking powder to remove lumps. Then add the salt into the flour mix in an empty mixing bowl. Basically add all the dry ingredients and mix tho-rouh-ly!

3. Add the margarine. Work into the flour mix with your fingers till it looks crumbly like breadcrumbs. Mix it thoroughly! Keep mixxxiiinnnggg till you're satsfied.

4. Make a hole in the center and gently add water little by little.  Work into it some more till you get a smooth non- sticky pastry.

5.  Divide the pastries into 15 equal parts. One for each egg. Make sure the pastries are not too thick ( it won't cook on the inside) or thin (won't cover the egg well) , about 1 cm thickness is okay.

6.  Using a flat surface,  dust the surface with flour and roll out each pastry with a rolling pin. Then, place the egg in the middle of the rolled out pastry and cover it up. Always use your hand to make circular motion with the egg roll till you're satusfied with the roundness and the egg is well placed in the middle.

7. Repeat the above step for the remaining 14 eggs.

8.   Pre-Heat your vegetable oil in a deep fryer or pot and fry the egg rolls till golden brown. To ensure it cooks well on the inside, reduce the temperature of the burner once you drop the egg roll into the oil.

9. Remove your egg roll from the oil and drain on a paper towel.

Serve with drinks or beverage of any choice!

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BOTTOM POT OR NAH ?!

Story Time! Yay! I'm always excited when telling stories, cos I really don't talk much in person and this is an avenue for me to tell as much stories I have locked up in my head! :)

BOTTOM POT is the sweetest part of every cooked food. Lol, let me break it down for you, take Jollof Rice for example, after adding all the ingredients you're expected to stir with a wooden spoon, no matter how often you stir, some of the ingredients are often concentrated in the bottom pot. It's just how it is and you can really do nothing about it!

Don't get me wrong, bottom pot is not the burnt black scraps of food in a pot. Nope, not that.  It's the layer of food just above the burnt part. It has a smokey flavor coupled with an overflowing concentration of ingredients. That's why it tastes so sweeeeeeeeet! 

 My childhood was a very interesting one. I grew up with both older and younger sisters! My mom will force both me and my two sisters to stay in the kitchen with her, we'll assist her in chopping, slicing, dicing and sorts. That's where I learnt my onion slicing game! Of course we got chunks of fish and meats as motivation, and we'll all do the tasting tasting together!

When food is ready, and my mom finishes dishing the food to everyone, me and my elder sister will start hanging around the kitchen with spoons in our hands to scrape the hell out of the pot. My mom noticed initially and told us to stay off but, We kent naa! Stay off bottom pot?? Ko possibu ma. We got punished a time or two but we still didn't change.

 Later, my mom started pouring water into the pot to stop our scraping. She said scraping pot is a sign of poverty and we're not servants. In my mind, I was like..Haba!  Mommy, is not poverty anything. Food is Food. -_- she convinced my elder sister sha, and she stopped. This made me two times happier! No more competition for bottom pot and I can have the whole pot to myself! What could be more satisfying? LOL

Although, I have overgrown that habit but sometimes, the child in me still craves bottom pot. Some foods with delicious bottom pot are : Jollof rice, Beans, Yam, Sweet potato and Plantain Pottages, to mention but a few. So when next you see a child scraping pot, just minimize scolding and collect the child's spoon and assist him/her in scraping! If you don't take care of them, who will?

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