Feta Cheese with Pepper Honey

This is a very simple appetizer and very easy to prepare. Feta cheese is a key ingredient in Mediterranean diet, as it used in many dishes, such as Greek salad, savory cheese or vegetable pies, or as a delicious appetizer (meze), baked or fried with sweet or sour –sweet honey based sauces.You will enjoy it after it is prepared. follow the instruction given below to prepare yours

Ingredients:                                                                                   

1 pound feta cheese, patted dry
3 teaspoons coarsely-ground black peppercorns
1/3 cup good quality honey
Bread slices or crackers

Instructions:

Place the block of feta cheese in the center of a large platter.

In a small bowl, stir together pepper and honey; drizzle mixture over the top of the feta cheese.

Serve with bread slices or crackers.

Serves many.

Cucumber Salad

The Health benefit of cucumber is so great and that is why I love to give us the recipe of preparing cucumber salad.

Ingredients

2  medium cucumbers, thinly sliced

1/3  cup cider or white vinegar 

 

2  medium cucumbers, thinly sliced 

1/3 cup water

2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

   Chopped fresh dill weed or parsley, if desired

Directions

• 1 Place cucumbers in small glass or plastic bowl.
• 2 In tightly covered container, shake remaining ingredients except dill weed. Pour over cucumbers. Cover and refrigerate at least 3 hours to blend flavors.
• 3 Drain cucumbers. Sprinkle with dill weed. Store covered in refrigerator.

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.

How to prepare Peanut Soup

Do you love peanut soup and you have been looking forward to have a taste of it. why waiting when you can prepare it your self. Here is how you can prepare it yourself and enjoy it:

Ingredients
2-3 Fresh Fish 3 Tablespoon vegetable oil 1 onion, sliced 3-inch piece of ginger, peeled and minced 6-8 garlic cloves, chopped roughly 1 15-ounce can of crushed tomatoes 1 quart chicken stock 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup roasted peanuts 1 Tablespoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon cayenne, or to taste Salt and black pepper 1/4 to 1/2 cup of chopped cilantro Method 1 Heat the vegetable oil in a large soup pot set over medium-high heat. Salt the fish pieces well, pat them dry and brown them in the oil. Don't crowd the pot, so do this in batches. Set the fish pieces aside as they brown. 2 Saute the onions in the oil for 3-4 minutes, stirring often and scraping any browned bits off the bottom of the pot. Add the ginger and garlic and saute another 1-2 minutes. 3 Add the chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, peanut butter, peanuts, coriander and cayenne and stir well to combine. Bring to a simmer and taste for salt, adding more if needed. Cover the pot and simmer gently for 90 minutes (check after an hour), or until the chicken meat easily falls off the bone and the sweet potatoes are tender.

4 Remove the chicken pieces and set them in a bowl to cool, until cool enough to touch. Remove and discard the skin if you want, or chop it and put it back into the pot. Shred the fish off the bones and put the fish back in the pot. 5 Adjust the seasonings for salt and cayenne, then add as much black pepper as you think you can stand—the stew should be peppery. Stir in the cilantro and serve by itself, or with simple steamed rice.

Crispy Potato Wedge(Potato Recipe)

This is one of the tastiest recipes I ever love when I was a child. It is an easiest potato recipes around that children love as much as adults. To prepare this dish you follow the instruction below: .

Ingredients 1/4 cup groundnut oil 1/2 tablespoon salt 1/4 tablespoon black pepper 1/2 tablespoon each dried basil, thyme and curry leaves 1/4 tablespoon paprika 4 to 6 medium potatoes 1/4 to 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese INSTRUCTION Combine olive oil and seasonings in bowl.

Scrub unpeeled potatoes well. Cut each potato in half lengthwise, then in thirds. Coat each slice in the seasoned oil. Spread in a single layer on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with the cheese. Bake 15 minutes longer. Then serve after the period of twenty minutes. I bet you will enjoy this recipe

Groundnut soup dinner recipe

GROUNDNUT SOUP DINNER RECIPE serves 4

This is african dinner recipe I love so much and I am sure you will like it when you prepare it. Follow me as we prepare this dinner together. 500g / llb assorted parts of meat (washed)
I medium smoked fish (washed)
225g / 8oz stockfish
225g / 8oz bushmeat (washed)
500g / 8oz roasted groundnuts
lpt stock or water
100g / 4oz ground crayfish
25g / loz iru (locust bean)
2 medium fresh tomatoes
100g / 4oz ground pepper
I onion
3 large pepper (tatase)
salt to taste
Place the washed meats in a large pot, add a drop of wa ter or stock, season with salt and ground pepper and boil for 30 minutes or until tender. Add the smoked fish and stockfish, cook for another l0 minutes. Add the rest of the stock. Bring to the boil and add the ground fresh tomatoes, onions, pepper, iru and groundnut. Cook for 20 minutes until the soup thickens. Sprinkle in ground crayfish and stir. Simmer for another 10 minutes. Check seasoning and serve hot with boiled rice.
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Cucumber-Zucchini Salad

Servings: 6 Units: 

US | Metric 2 cucumbers,

 thinly sliced 2 zucchini,

 thinly sliced 1 small sweet onion,

thinly sliced (optional) 1/3 cup vinegar

 1/4 cup sugar

 1/2 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper,

 fresh cracked 1 pinch red pepper flakes Directions:

 1 Arrange in alternate layers cucumber, zucchini & onions.

 2 Mix VINEGAR and SUGAR dissolved in 1/2 cup HOT WATER add SALT, PEPPER, & CRUSHED RED PEPPER.Add a couple ice cubes to chill. 3 Drain any water formed from cucumbers before adding the dressing. 4 Allow vegetables to marinate in the dressing at least 1 hour before serving. Print Recipe

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