Category: Breakfast Recipes
Posted on November 25, 2018
How to prepare Akamu [Pap]

You will need:
1.5kg dry corn
Lots of water

Tools
Chiffon material: for setting apart the moist corn starch (akamu/ogi/pap) from the chaff.
Blender: I used Palson with 600W.
Muslin bag: Any tightly woven cotton, calico or canvass cloth whose weaves do now not shift is exceptional for this. You could make yours at domestic when you have a stitching machine and realize how to sew. In Nigeria, salt used to come in muslin baggage, in case you still have such bags, it’s miles best for this. You want to wash it properly earlier than use as salt is akamu’s worst enemy.
Big and small bowls.

Notes on the elements
I were given approximately 1.2kg akamu from the 1.5kg dry corn.
The corn ought to be dry. Fresh corn can’t form the proper kind of starch for making akamu/ogi/pap.
We use yellow dry corn for making yellow akamu and white (off-white) corn for making white akamu.
You will want lots of water for soaking, washing and seiving the corn.

Important!
Never permit salt are available contact with the corn, water and utensils you may use to system the akamu due to the fact while that occurs, the akamu will now not thicken when you put together it with warm water.

Directions
Wash the dry corn very well and soak in a generous quantity of bloodless water for three to 4 days. Do now not refrigerate it because it’s miles essential that a few form of fermentation takes area.
Wash the corn and change the water every day.
On the third or 4th day, wash and blend until easy. I say 3rd or 4th due to the fact some corns turn out to be tender enough to be combined by means of the third day. Bite into it to check, if now not soak for one greater day. Add a beneficiant amount of water to assist your blender. In Nigeria, heavy obligation grinders are used for this motive.
Drape the chiffon fabric over a massive bowl and tie it up. The bowl have to be large enough to deal with the ogi and the water you may use to rinse it and then a few.
Sieve the combination rinsing as essential until you’re left with most effective the chaff. It is really helpful to rinse small quantities of the corn combo at a time so that you will not be beaten.
When you’ve got rinsed all the corn combination, combo the chaff and rinse again in case you suppose you may get extra akamu from it. This may be the case if you used a kitchen blender. This won’t be necessary in case you used the heavy duty grinders in Nigerian markets.
When carried out, take off the chiffon cloth and set the mixture of water and akamu apart to accept as a minimum three hours.
After about 3 hours or while you notice that the water is clear, decant the clear water and pour the rest of the mixture into the muslin bag.
Tie the bag and maintain it in this kind of manner as to permit the water drain from the ogi.
When you note that the water has tired off, tie the bag tighter and leave to continue draining the water. Repeat the method because the water drains until no extra water drains off.
Tie the bag for the final time and region a few weights on it to squeeze out the last hint of water.
Leave it like this overnight so that the akamu will have the traditional sour flavor. Again, do no longer refrigerate it.
The next day, bring out the akamu from the bag, cut it up into single-use chunks, area in bins (bowls or plastic baggage) and installed your freezer till you are equipped to use it.
Posted on November 25, 2018
How to make Plantain Moi Moi

Ingredients

1-2 cooking spoons palm oil
1 teaspoon ground crayfish
1 onion
Pepper and Salt (to taste)
2 pcs of overripe plantain (Even if the skin is now black, as long as the inside is not decomposed)
100g plantain flour
1 Knorr cube
Cool water

Containers

Bowls
Uma leaves (Thaumatococcus Daniellii)
Aluminium foil bag

Before you cook Plantain Moi Moi
Prepare the uma leaves for the Plantain Moi Moi the use of the method specified at: How to prepare uma leaves for Moi Moi.
Put the plantain flour in a bowl, upload a small amount of water and mix until you get a medium consistency.
Wash, peel and reduce the overripe plantain into small portions.
Grind the crayfish, cut the onions and pepper into small pieces.

Cooking Directions
Blend the overripe plantain portions, plantain flour batter, onions, crayfish, pepper and inventory cube with simply enough water to allow the blades of the blender circulate.
Pour the smooth mixture right into a considerable bowl.
Add salt and palm oil. Mix very well until nicely combined.
Set a small amount of water in a pot to boil. When the water boils, region a base for the Plantain Moi Moi wraps into the pot. This can be scrap pieces of aluminium foil, a chrome steel stand or leaf stalks from the uma leaves.
Scoop the mixture into folded uma leaves, simply as you would with beans Moi Moi.
Gently location the wraps within the pot of boiling water and cook for 20-25 minutes. Add water alongside the manner if necessary.
Leave to cool down completely and set earlier than serving.
Posted on November 25, 2018
Nigerian Egg Stew

Ingredients

1 stock cube
2 cooking spoons of vegetable oil
2 Eggs
4 medium plum tomatoes (Tomato Jos)
1 medium onion
Salt & Dry Pepper (to taste)

Before you Cook the Egg Stew
Remove the seeds from the tomatoes and cut into large slices .
Also cut the onion into huge slices .
Beat the two eggs, upload a pinch of salt and set apart.

preparing the Nigerian Egg Stew
Heat the vegetable oil in a pot, when hot, decrease the heat to medium.
Add the onions and stir for approximately 2 minutes.
Add the tomatoes, stir for a piece and cover the pot. This is in order that the tomatoes and onions do not dry up too speedy. Stir from time to time even though.
After approximately five mins, upload the floor pepper, salt and seasoning.
Keep stirring till the tomato is absolutely smooth and separated from the oil.
Slowing pour the egg in a circular motion. Do NOT stir. Cover the pot and decrease the heat to low to allow the egg to “cake”. You want the egg to shape lumps inside the stew in place of appearance smooth.
Posted on November 25, 2018
How to prepare Agidi Jollof

Ingredients

300g Soft chewable bones a.k.a. Biscuit bones
200g Corn flour or Akamu/Ogi
250ml Tomato Stew
1 big stock cube
1 onion
½ teaspoon curry powder
Pepper & Salt to taste
200ml cold water
Hot water

You’ll additionally need:
Uma leaves (Thaumatococcus Daniellii) for wrapping the Agidi Jollof whilst performed. You can also placed them in plastic boxes or maybe aluminium foil.

Before you prepare the Agidi Jollof
Wash the uma leaves in lots of bloodless water and set apart. Click here to see a way to do that.
Cut the onion into huge chunks.
Pound the pepper, this is if you are using clean habanero/scotch bonnet peppers.

Directions BELOW!!

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