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#ChopChopToday: Edikaikong Soup

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Edikaikong Soup

Vegetables are good for our health and those in Nigeria do a lot of it, with different traditional soups from various parts of the country.

Today’s focus is edikaikong soup. The two main green leaves in the soup are water leaves and Ugu or Pumpkin leaves as it is widely known. the soup is rich, because it contains vitamins. Different types of meat are used to cook the soup [depending on the type of meat you want to use].

Ingredients:
Water leaves
Ugu
Beef
Dry fish
Stock fish
Palm oil
Seasoning
Salt
Pepper
Cry fish

Directions:
Firstly, wash all vegetables very well, then slice them and set them aside. Wash the meat, stock fish, dried fish, place in the pot, spice it up and cook. When the meat is ready add other ingredients.

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Add crayfish, pepper, seasoning, and stir. Allow to cook…

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When it is well cooked add palm oil and allow to cook for few minutes. Make sure that the mixture should not have a lot of water.

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When it is well cooked it should look like the picture above, then add the water leave first, this will enable the water leave to cook well and allow the water in it to come out.

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The picture above is the water leave, I got it frozen here, but the fresh one would be better. Some people use spinach in place of the water leaves.

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The picture above is the Ugu leaf or Pumpkin leaves as it is widely known, I also got it frozen.

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The picture above shows the water leave cooking, after which the Ugu will be added and allowed to cook until it is ready.

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And the soup is ready, you could enjoy this soup with Eba, semovita, fufu, pounded yam. Try this simple steps and enjoy.

 

Contributed by Akumabee’s Plate on: http://africfood.blogspot.co.uk/

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#ChopChopToday: Sweet Potato Porridge

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Sweet Potato is among the foods with less creative cooking. Today we will be making porridge with sweet potatoes.

Things you Need:

2 Sweet Potato (washed, peeled and sliced)

1 onion

Pepper

Salt

Maggie

Spinach (washed and sliced)

Meat (already boiled)

1/2 cup of palm oil (depending on how much oil you need in your food)

Water

Spices (garlic, ginger, nutmeg)

2 fresh Tomato (washed and sliced).

 

Instructions:

Place the (washed, peeled and sliced) sweet potato in a bowl, add water and salt allow to cook for 20 minutes.

While it is cookin, place the pot on the stove, add palm oil (do not allow the oil to fry), then add onions, tomato (allow to fry for 5 minutes).

Add already cooked meat, taste (at this point if you want to add more spices you can, if it is not enough), then add spices and salt.

Allow to cook for 5 minutes then reduce heat.

Take down the cooked sweet potato drain the water and add it to the tomato sauce and mix together.

Allow to cook until almost ready (like in 5 minutes to serve), then add the spinach.

Bon Appétit…

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Contributed by Akumabee’s Plate on: http://africfood.blogspot.co.uk/

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#ChopChopToday: Bread Magic

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Bread is typically a white man’s food but the oyinbos taught use how to eat bread to the extend that it has become a tradition to eat bread and tea for breakfast.

Here is a different way to lively up the usual way we consume bread and no, it is not with just fried eggs.

How to make the Bread Magic

Firstly, cut out the edges of the bread…

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Then flatten the bread…

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Mix up your sardines, bell pepper, green veggie and seasoning and microwave it or heat it up for a while.

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Put the mixed up sauce in the bread and wrap or roll it up. Break and beat eggs depending on the amount of bread, then rub the egg on the wrapped bread.

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Light up your cooker and add little vegetable oil in a pan to fry the bread.

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There you have it… a little snack for your kids or siblings and a different way to eat bread.

Contributed by Akumabee’s Plate on: http://africfood.blogspot.co.uk/

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