Orange and Lettuce Salad Recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 4 oranges
• 2 tablespoon salad oil
• 3 desertspoons lemon juice
• salt and pepper
• lettuce

1. Peep the oranges, removing the pith. Cut acroo in slices and remove the pips
2. put the orange slices in a bowl and sprinkle some of the lemon juice over them
3. Make a dressing using the oil, remaining lemon juice, slices
4. Serve with a border of young lettuce leaves.

Cooked Egg Sauces

Basic recipe:

• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoonful vanilla essence(optional)
• 250ml milk
• 1 desertspoon sugar

How to prepare:

1. Heat the milk
2. Beat the egg with the sugar and pour on the hot milk gradually. Strain to remove the threads, etc., from egg.
3. Return to gentle heat and stir until custard thickens. Do not boil, otherwise it will curdle.

           To prevent curdling cook in a double saucepan. The sauce may be varied by the addition of   strong flavouring, e.g. coffee.

Foorah(fura de nono)

Foorah is one of the best delicacies in the northern Nigeria. I love it so much especially when served chilled. How do you go about preparing yours.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cup of rice flour
• 200g granulated sugar
• 450ml water

PREPARATION:

1. Bring the water to the boil and pour out two thirds into a bowl. Keep back a little rice flour for coasting.

2. Add sugar to water in the pot and dissolve. Sprinkle the rice flour on the water and mix with a flat wooden spoon until free from lumps and quite smooth.
3. Cook over a slow fire, turning with the flat wooden spoonuntil the mixture is like thick paste.
4. Add the hot water gradually- bring it to the boil each time after adding water, then turn with the spoon and make a thick paste.
5. When all the water has been added, taste for sugar and to ensure that the rice is thoroughly cooked. If necessary add more water and sugar.
6. Turn until the consistency is soft and solid. Remove from fire and allow to cool slightly.
7. Add some sugar to the remaining rice flour and mix well on a plate, tray or calabash.
8. Dish the foorah in spoonfulsl onto the sugared flour and roll round to form balls, and at the same time coat the balls.
9. Serve cold, piled up in a bowl or an oval dish or plate. The balls may later be mashed up with water in a bowl, to the consistency of thin pap(a little more sugar can be added if necessary) and served chilled as a drink. Milk may be added if desire.

Crab Salad

How to Prepare Crab Salad

1.  Remove the meat from the shell.
2. Season with salt and pepper and add some mayonnaise or salad cream.
3. Arrange lettuce on a glass salad dish. Put the meat in the center and garnish with slice tomatoes, watercress, or parsley springs and the crab legs.

            

Grilled Fish Recipes

INGREDIENT:

• 2 HERRINGS OF BLUSTER
• A piece of ginger
• Lime
• Salt
• Ground Pepper

How to prepare

1. Clean and wash the fish. Squeeze on the juice of half the lime- rub it all over and rinse. Dry with a clean cloth.
2. Season. Smear with the ground pepper into slits. Rub with a little oil.
3. Prepare the fire and grill iron. Heat the iron and place the fish on it.
4. Grill on either side quickly to seal in the juices

5. Grill slowly to ensure thorough cooking.

               Variation: mix 1 table spoon groundnut paste with 1 tablespoon juice lime, ground pepper, and salt; smear on seasoned fish before grilling.

Fish Cakes

There are several ways of preparing fish. Some few ways are frying, stewing, boiling, steaming, baking, grilling, and roasting. Here we shall learn how to make fish cake.

INGREDIENTS:

• 500G FRESH FISH
• 2 TOMATOES
• 70ML COOKING OIL
• 1 ONION
• 3 GARDEN EGGS
• SEASONED FLOUR
• A LITTLE TOMATO PASTE
• SALT AND PEPPER TO TASTE
• 250ML WATER OR STOCK 
• 1DESERTSPOON FLOUR

Preparation 

1. Prepare fish and cut into moderate sized pieces. season
2. Prepare vegetable according to kind.
3. heat the oil. When ready, dip pieces of fish in seasoned flour and coat(one at a time). Fry on either side until well cooked and brown.
4. cook the flour in the oil until, stirring all the time to prevent it from sticking.

5. Add the onion and fry: add pepper and other vegetables. add the water and tomato paste and bring to the boil. Add salt. Reduce heat and simmer until garden eggs are sot but broken. At this stage the consistency will be thick. Add the fried fish carefully. Continue to simmer until the correct consistency is obtained.

               A pinsh of thyme or mixed spice may be added to improve the flavour.

Jam or Marmalade Sauce

Learn how to prepare marmalade jam sauce

INGREDIENT

• 150ml of water
• 1 teaspoonfull of cornflour
• 1 tablespoonfull of Sugar
• Rind and juice of 1/4 lemon
• 1 tablespoon raspberry jam
• coloring or marmalade

How to prepare

1. Put sugar, jam, and lemon ring and juice in sauce pan.
2. stir over gentle heat until the sugar and jam dissolve
3. Infuse for ten minutes.
4. Strain sauce into another pan. Blend cornflour with a little cold water. Add to sauce and boil for 3 minutes

Tomato Sauces

A sauce is a thick, liquid preparation eaten with some foods in order to give additional flavour and nourishment.

Here we will discuss how to prepare tomato sauce INGREDIENT

250g tomatoes

1 small carrot

150ml white stock

1 small onion or shallot

1/2 teaspoon cornflour

1 desertspoon margarine

Salt and pepper Direction

1. chop onion, slice carrot and tomatoes

2. Melt margarine in a sauce pan. Add prepareed vegetablees

3. simmer for 30 minutes. Skim.

4. Rub through a sieve. Reheat sauce.

5. Mix cornflour with a little water and add to sauce.

6. Add seasoning. Boil for 5 minutes. Colour if necessary.