FRUIT SALAD DRINK

INGREDIENTS

1 medium sized cucumber

5 bananas

2 apples

Ground nut

12 ice cube

Milk

JOLLOF BEANS AND SPAGHETTI

Beans and spaghetti is a very nice combination you can't wait to try, simple and healthy

BANGA STEW (Ofe akwu)

BANGA STEW (Ofe akwu) 

            Banga stew is one stew i enjoy so much, the natural taste is inviting!!!

INGREDIENTS

 Fish (Can use any meat of your choice)
1 medium sized basin of Banga
1 cup Crayfish
 Fresh pepper
1 Onion
2 Seasoning cubes
Salt
1 Green pepper (optional )
1 Bunch Scent leaves
1 Medium sized Ugu leave

COOKING METHOD FOR BANGA STEW

1. Boil banga for about 30 to 45 minutes. Pound, extract it and set aside.
2. Season your fish (meat) with salt, onion, seasoning cube and fresh pepper cook, fry and set aside.
3. Wash and cut your scent leave, ugu leave and green pepper set aside.
4. Cut your onion, pound your fresh pepper and crayfish set aside ( you can also grind them)
5. Set the pot of banga extract on fire and start cooking for about 30 to 45 minutes or more till it thickens you will notice some red oil at the surface.
6. Add your cooked fish, crayfish, onion, fresh pepper, seasoning cubes and salt. Cover to cook for about 10 to 15 minutes.
7. Add your scent leaves, ugu and green pepper to simmer for just 2 minutes and bring down.
8. Banga stew is ready. Can be served with White rice, white beans, boiled yam.

HOW TO PREPARE VEGETABLE SOUP

Vegetable Soup

Africans love soup and vegetable soup is quite special. The freshness is inviting.

Tastes superb!

INGREDIENTS

1. Meat 
2. Stock fish (optional)
3. Dried fish
4. Red oil
5. Waterleaf
6. Pumpkin leaves (ugu)
7. Seasoning cube
8. Salt 
9. Crayfish
10. Dried Pepper
     
    
    
    
    
    DIRECTIONS
    
    
    PREPARING THE MEAT AND FISH
    
    
    For soup you can use any type of meat like goat meat, beef, roundabout, cow or goat intestine (sharki).
    
    
    STEP 1
    Soak your dried fish and stock fish in hot water for 15 minutes.
    
    
    STEP 2
    Remove the bones  from the dried fish and stock fish. Wash and set aside.
    
    
    STEP 3
    Wash your meat thoroughly with water and in a medium sized pot,  add your washed stock fish and dried fish. Add two (2) seasoning cubes, one (1) tea spoon of salt, a cup of water then leave to cook for about 15 minutes or more. Turn off the burner and set aside. 
    
    
    PREPARING THE VEGETABLES
    
    
    Thoroughly wash your waterleaf and pumpkin leaves (ugu), slice and set aside.
    
    
    
    
    THE MAIN SOUP PREPARATION 
    
    
    Turn on your burner and put your cooked meat on fire, allow to cook for another 5 minutes. Add your dried pepper, seasoning cube, salt and and cray fish cover and allow to cook for about 15 mins, add your red oil cover allow to cook for 5 min open and check the taste if more salt is needed you add. Add your waterleaf cover allow to cook for 5 mins open and turn, add your pumpkin leave (ugu).
    Your pot of vegetable soup is ready can be served with eba, fufu, semovita, wet and pounded yam
     
           
    
    
    
    

meat, dry fish and stock fish

dry fish

sliced water-leave

sliced ugu

boiling soup waiting for vegetables

add ugu leave

add waterleaf

vegetable soup is ready

HEALTH TIPS

                                              A CUP OF HONEY WITH WARM WATER

HEALTH BENEFITS OF HONEY TO THE BODY

 IT HELPS YOU LOOSE WEIGHT
(Drinking warm water with a teaspoon of honey in an empty stomach cleanse the liver, remove toxin and flush fat from the body)
IT UNLOCK THE AUTO DEFENSE MECHANISM
How can honey do that?
(Actually only raw unadulterated honey can do that,
because only raw organic honey is loaded with helpful minerals,  vitamins. flavonoids and enzymes that keeps the body clean and healthy)
IT AIDS IN DIGESTION
(Beside purifying our bodies of toxin, honey dissolved in water also aids in digestion by easing the passage from the intestines to the colon)
SOOTHES ALLERGY
Do you suffer from environmental allergy?
Honey with hot water can help by keeping you hydrated and making you coexist with the irritants in your area
OTHER BENEFITS 
Have a sore throat?
No worries. Honey with warm water can help reduce the irritation. Water helps soothe the throat while honey coats it.


HOW TO PREPARE HONEY WITH WARM WATER
Add a spoon of honey in a cup of warm water (not hot) and mix

WHITE RICE SERVED WITH FRIED VEGETABLES

White rice served with fried vegetables

This is a delicious food for those in love with vegetables. The taste in the mouth will make you ask for more ! Oh love it!!! delicious!!! Try it

• INGREDIENTS
• Pumpkin leave
• Fresh tomatoes
• Onion
• Fresh pepper
• Green pepper
• Green beans
• Carrot
• Crayfish
• Seasoning cube
• Salt
• Vegetable oil

 

fresh tomatoes, fresh pepper and onions

green beans, carrot and green pepper

pumpkin leave

chop tomatoes, onions and pepper

chop carrot, green pepper and green beans

sliced pumpkin leave

grounded crayfish

COOKING PROCEDURE FOR FRIED VEGETABLES

1. In an empty pot on fire add vegetable oil allow for about 3 minutes add your chop vegetable stir for 2 minutes and remove from the oil
2. In that hot oil add your chop onions and stir for 3minutes
3. Add you chop tomatoes and pepper stir for about 3minutes
4. Add your grounded crayfish, seasoning cube and salt and stir for 5minutes
5. Add your pumpkin leave allow for just 2minutes then bring down
6. And mix your fried vegetables inside
7. Food is ready

fried vegetables

fry onion, pepper, tomatoes, seasoning cube, crayfish and salt

add pumpkin leave

                                                                add fried vegetables
                                                       

                                                            food is ready! delicious!                      
                                                

SPAGHETTI GARNISHED WITH VEGETABLES AND GOAT MEAT

Spaghetti Garnished with Vegetables and Goat Meat

Spaghetti is easy to prepare. It is better garnished with vegetables as they aid digestion. For those of you who think Spaghetti is junk food, will have a rethink after trying this delicious Spaghetti 

with vegetables. mmmh! is yummy

INGREDIENTS

Spaghetti

Goat Meat

Vegetable oil

Onions

Crayfish

Seasoning Cube

Green beans

Green pepper

Carrot

Fresh tomatoes

Fresh pepper

Salt

 

Goat Meat spiced with fresh pepper,

onions, seasoning cube and salt ready to put on fire

Boiled and washed Spaghetti

Diced green pepper, Onions, Fresh pepper and Green beans

Diced Fresh tomatoes and Carrot

                                   COOKING METHOD FOR THIS SPAGHETTI :

                                    fry your onions, fresh pepper and fresh tomatoes in oil and stir

                                    add crayfish, seasoning cube and salt

                                    add water

                                   add your spaghetti and boiled goat meat cover to cook over low heat

                                  when the water is almost dry you add your green pepper and green beans

                                   add carrot

                                  Enjoy with the ones you love !

                           
                          
                      
                           
                         
                   

Heat oil for about 3minutes and

Add onions, fresh pepper and fresh tomatoes

Add your ground crayfish seasoning cube and water

Boiling and waiting for my washed spaghetti

Add goat meat and spaghetti

Add green pepper and green beans

Add carrot

 

Waiting for water to dry

Yummy! spaghetti is ready

UKAZI SOUP

Ukazi Soup

INGREDIENTS

Meat.

Dry Fish.

Stock Fish.

Cocoa Yam.

Red Oil.

Ukazi Leaves (Called Afang in Efik and Ibibio )

Ogiri (Iru) (Dawadawa)

Ashanti Pepper (Uziza seed)

Cray Fish.

Dry Pepper.

Seasoning Cube.

Salt.

Meat(Cow tail)

Dry Fish

Stock Fish

METHOD

1. Wash your Cocoa Yam then set aside.

2. Wash your meat and Stock Fish then set aside.

3. Salt your fish and soak in hot water for about 15 minutes.

4. Pound your Ashanti Pepper (Uziza seed).

5. Boil your Cocoa Yam for about 30 minutes and pound.

Tip: Pound your Cocoa Yam immediately after boiling because if it gets cold it becomes more difficult to pound.

PREPARATION

1. Boil your washed meat, stock fish and dry fish with seasoning cube, salt and pepper for about 20 minutes.

2. Add the quantity of water you want for the soup to the boiled meat and allow to boil for about 15 minutes.

3. Add your red oil to the pot of boiled meat, cover the pot and allow to boil for another 10 minutes.

4. Add your Ashanti Pepper (Uziza seed), Crayfish, Dry pepper and Seasoning cube and Salt.  Allow to cook for 15 minutes.

5. Add your pounded Cocoa Yam then stir till the Cocoa Yam dissolves.

6. Add your Ukazi Leaves (Afang Leaves)

FOOD IS READY !!!!!!!

Can be Serve with Pounded Yam, Garri, Fufu, Semovita,