Cookery Corner: Sallah special

The Eid festival is here again! Here are some delicious recipes of food you can cook, grill and enjoy. Stick meat This is very easy to make and could be used as a snack during this sallah. Nigerians call it stick meat while others may call it beef kebab. Enough blabbing here is the recipe […]

The Eid festival is here again! Here are some delicious recipes of food you can cook, grill and enjoy.

Stick meat
This is very easy to make and could be used as a snack during this sallah. Nigerians call it stick meat while others may call it beef kebab. Enough blabbing here is the recipe
 
Ingredients
 * 1Pack of Beef
 * 3 Bell Peppers – Red, Green, Yellow
 *1 Bulb Onion
 *2 Cubes of Maggi
 * 2 Teaspoons dry Pepper
 * 1Teaspoon Salt
 * 1/2 Teaspoon Curry
*A pinch of Thyme
 * 2 Cups of Water
 *2 Cooking Spoons of vegetable oil
 * Pack of Toothpicks
 
Preparation
 #Chop the beef into tiny pieces and place in a pot. Add salt, dry pepper, maggi, curry, thyme and water and bring to boil.
 #Boil for 15 Minutes and allow to cool.
 Heat the Vegetable oil and fry the beef till brown
 Cut up all the bell peppers and onions to tiny pieces
 Stack the beef, peppers and onions in your desired order. Have fun with it.
 

Jollof rice
 
Ingredients
 * Medium sized Roma Tomatoes
 *3 Cups of water
 *1 Clove of garlic
 *3 Cubes of Maggi
 *A pinch of Thyme
 *2 Teaspoons of Salt
 *1 Small bulb of Onion
 *2 Bay leaves
 *3 Scotch Bonnet Peppers
 *1 Teaspoon of dry pepper
 *1 Teaspoon of curry powder
 *1 Small can of Tomato puree
 *2 Cooking spoons of Vegetable Oil
 
Method
 Wash rice by rubbing the rice between your palms in a bowl of water and draining the water till clear.
 Blend tomatoes, pepper and garlic and bring to boil till the excess water dries up.
 
Chop Onions
 Heat up vegetable oil and pour in chopped onions and fry. Pour in the can of tomato puree and fry.
 Pour in blended tomato and pepper mix into the pot and stir in. Pour in salt, dry pepper, curry, thyme, bay leaves and maggi cubes.
 Allow it to simmer on low heat for 3 minutes.
 Reduce the heat to the lowest level and pour in the washed rice. Pour in the water and stir and leave on low heat for 20 minutes or till the rice is soft.
 

Tiger nut milk drink
During the Eid festival no food can go down better than a fresh Tiger nut milk drink(kunun aya)
 A must have
 *Tiger nuts
 *Sugar
 *Milk (evaporatred)
 *Milk flavour
 *Sieve
 *Ice cubes or block (so that it won’t get spoilt)
 
DO THIS
 Soak your tiger nuts in water for some time
 Put your tiger nuts in a mortar, then you pound it but not to hard, just scrub it a little so that it will be white and all the dirt would be out
 Grind the nuts, and put in a freezer, if you are not ready to sieve it immediately because tiger nuts get spoil easily when they stay outside for too long
 Sieve the tiger nut 3-4 times so that it would be very smooth and pure
 Add your milk and your flavor and add your sugar
 Put it in the freezer or use your ice cubes so that it won’t get spoilt.
 Enjoy!!!
 Have a wonderful Eid el-Kabir