This week: Plantain

Plantain is one of the amazing food that can happen to you, its quick and easy to make, the taste is absolutely wonderful and is something you will always want to have, so lets try these recipes together this week, we will go through the things to do with plantain be it green or yellow and the recipes for them will be right here on vivid choice so we can all try it at home.......did i hear a yeah???

Lets go there!!!

Sweet Corn - make it

This is very tasty, you need to try it the only but is.....don't eat too much, you will get toothache.

• Turn oven on to 225
• Remove the husks and place in the oven
• 20-30mins
• Eat alone or with butter

This is way better in grill with the husks on for about 15min.

African Street food.

I am sure there are more but these are all i can remember and that i have tasted.

1. Chin Chin

2. Grilled plantain (Boli)

3. Grilled maize (agbado yi yan)

4. Boiled peanut (epa sise)

5. Fried yam (dundun)

6. Okin biscuit

7. Akara seke pu (beans cake)

8. Suya (grilled peppered meat)

9. coconut candy

10. Wara

11. Gala (sausage roll)

12. Kitubua

13. Puff puff

14. Bunz

15. Meatpie

16. Madazi

Make your orders through the website provided: http://jfoods.wix.com/vividchoice

Mama Put - Buka

Looking at this picture alone, makes me hungry now i can't wait to visit home (Nigeria).

This is the best place to eat in Nigeria, if you visited Nigeria and you haven't been to this place called (buka- mama put) then you haven't been there yet you need to go back.

this is not my picture.

Boli (Grilled Plantain)

This is one of the best street food in Africa, now you can have it in your own home.

3 ripe plantain
2 spoon vegetable oil

*Turn oven on to 225
*Peel the plantains open
*Using your pastry brush or finger tips, rob oil over the plantains
*Place them in the oven for 22minutes and turn over for another 23minutes

Best doing in barbecue

Serve with any sauce or with roasted peanut!

Ofe Onugbu (Bitterleaf Soup)

I love me bitterleaf soup any time any day, the first time i had bitterleaf soup was just few months ago at my very close friend's house (Chuka) i didn't want it at first since i didn't know what it was but then i saw my friend (Atu) we went there together eating it with pounded yam, now she is the type of person that doesn't like spicy food and doesn't eat solid food so to cut long story short, i thought to have a taste of this soup, so i took piece and bam i was like boy what soup is this?? lol you can imagine the expression on my face, in my head i was like am definitely going to make this and goodness where has this been all my life?
A lot of people when they hear bitter something, they don't even want to hear it again, just because they think the soup will be bitter, my friend Victoria Osomo always says one proverb that goes 'sweetness comes after bitterness' now that simply means: you are using bitter leaf to cook the soup thinking it will become too bitter but by the time you wash the leaf and season it into a soup it will be so sweet.
Here made it is for the first ever and i was actually talking to the soup saying (we have so many years to get to know each other) it tastes great.

Ingredients can be bought in any Afro-Caribbean store.

This is Atu eating the bitterleaf soup and pounded yam at Chuka's house for the first we both were having a taste.

The making......

Bitterleaf soup!

Pepper-soup

This is a Nigerian medicinal soup, so i asked why is it so? i was told it is the ingredient and the leafs and it is a real treat to invigorate the heart also for blood. Since some people don't like medicine  here is something you could try.
 In Nigeria this is mostly served after illness to help with the bones, restore blood etc, but is now a popular soup for all whether ill or well it is very good for you only pepprish. 

Things used for this soup are bitter leaf, utazi, ugwu and mint leafs, tamarind pods, cumin seeds, aniseed pepper etc...

Another level

 Chicken Breast and Grilled apple

 Shulu Shulu (coconut candy)

 Nigerian fried rice

 Isi Ewu (goat head)

Asaro (yam porridge)

African Black Pepper

This is the best pepper right now for peppersoup and indomine....you should give it a try.

Chicken sauce with Basmati rice