Sponge Cake Recipe

This is a beautiful, nice fluffy sponge cake recipe worth trying, also the simplest.

380g self-raising flour
30g melted butter
150ml water
1tsp vanilla extract
5tps caster sugar
2 eggs

Pre-heat oven to 180⁰C.
Grease the cake pan with butter.
Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
Whisk for 3mins straight.
Place in the pan and bake for 20-30min or till golden, poke with fork to see if its dry inside.

chicken and sausage rice - Jambalaya

This is a must try recipe, it taste so wonderful, full of flavour and its very simple. Jambalaya was originated in the Caribbean Islands


2 Chicken breast chopped
1 knorr
4 frankfuter's sausage chopped
2 tomatoe chopped
4tbs olive oil
1 green bell pepper chopped
2 medium celery chopped
5 cooked ham chopped
2tsp salt1tsp VC pepper500g white rice1 bay leaf1 cup spring onion chopped2 cup water

season the chicken with a pinch of salt and fry on each side for 2min.

heat oil on in a pot, transfer the chopped onion, pepper, celery and tomatoe into the oil with knorr, salt, pepper, bay leaf and stir fry for 3min

add the rest of the chopped ingredients, fry for another 3min

add the rice, mix well on low heat then add the water.

cook for 30minutes or until rice is well cooked.

I will take a better picture next time

Ogbono - Mango seed soup - make it draw

I can't really recall this famous Ogbono soup from Nigeria. The first time I did try it, it was in the UK. And when I had it, it had a soapy kinda taste so I was put off entirely. However, I had an aunty who loved it very much and every time she had it, she would say 'this is the best soup ever, try it and your life will never be the same'. LOL.

So how did I get over my repulsion for the soup? This is how... On one fateful day, my friend Yemisi, made it and she made it with a lot of pepper which sort of gave the soup a different kind of kick. This is how I got drawn to try the soup again and this time, I liked it.

Though the soup, is not my favourite, it's still nice. Enjoyyy. :)




P/S:
My readers have grilled me so much about how to make ogbono draw, and here is how;
First, have your boiled hot water ready. Then place your ogbono powder in a bowl and gradually add small quantities of the boiled water. Mix until smooth then pour inside the boiling meat on fire.

Souffle - how to make

This is served as a desert and the taste is just beautiful 

2eggs separated
2tsp plain flour
2tbs butter
2tsp double cream
1tsp vanila extract
1/2cup Warm milk
Pinch of Salt
2tsp White Sugar
4tbs Brown
1tsp icing sugar

Grease 4ramekins first with butter then brown sugar, set aside.

Heat the butter on medium heat, add the flour, stir for 1min then add the warm milk bit by bit, stir constantly until it becomes a thick sauce, once done take off stove.

This is called white sauce

Now add the egg yolk, vanila, cream and stir, set aside in a bowl.

in another bowl place the egg whites to whisk for about 7min or until it becomes together that you can't see any watery thing there any more while doing this add the white sugar bit by bit.

Mix the sauce and egg white together now with a spoon.
Once mixed well, pour into your ramekins not to full and use your finger tip to clean the edges to rise well.

place in the oven at 180oc for 12min or until risen

dust with the icing sugar and serve immediately

Merry Christmas: Meat stuffed Turkey!

Oh this is Christmas and Happy Birthday to Our Saviour Jesus Christ.
What did you do for Christmas? hope your turkey taste as great as mine.................

 and after 3hrs.....whew!

It was just three of us and i still can't believe that this is what is left of the turkey, everyone should try this.

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Plantain Gizzard

Number 6

Plantain: Boli- Grilled plantain

Number 5

please click on BOLI for recipe

Plantain: Plantain Porridge

Number 4

2 unripe plantain
2ripe plantain
1frozen spinach (Asda or Tesco)
pinch of vc pepper
palm oil
1knorr cubes
smoked dry catfish or meckrel
2tsp grounded crayfish
1 red onion

• wash peel and cut the unripe first, cook for 5min add the cut ripe plantain together and cook for another 5min or until soft, drain water if any.
• in another pot place the frozen spinach, boil for 2mins add salt, vc pepper, knorr, catfish/meckrel and chopped onion stir for 3min.
• add two cooking spoon of palm oil, let it boil for 5min.
• add cooked plantain into the spinach and cook for 5 more minutes.

Plantain: plantain chips

Number 3

2 unripe plantain
oil
salt

•  start by washing the unripe plantains, peel and cut into really thin pieces, season with salt.
•  heat oil in frying pan or use a deep fryer and fry for 2minute on each side.
•  pour into paper towel to dry oil
•  eat plain or serve with sauce

Plantain: Mosa

Number2

2 over ripe plantain

half cup self-rasing flour

oil for frying

salt to taste

• Start by peeling the plantains open, in a mixing bowl start to mash the plantain using a fork, potato masher or hand blender until smooth.
• add the flour and salt, mix together.
• heat oil, using a tablespoon, scoop into hot oil for 60sec on each side

So next time before your throw away your ripe black plantain think of doing MOSA.

Plantain: Just fried

Number 1

2 Ripe plantain

Vegetable oil for frying

• heat quantity oil in frying pan / deep fryer preheat to 180
• Rinse the plantains, peel open and cut into thin pieces
• fry the sliced plantain until brown not burnt
• drain on paper towel eat alone or serve with any rice dishes, omelette etc.

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

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