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Food Week - Day 5 - Inspired by Mom's Home Cooking

Tastes even better than it looks!


Peace – Lagos, Nigeria

 To be honest I really haven’t had the best of appetite during this lock down period, but my Coffee has been a blissful companion for me during this duration. Afang Soup and pounded yam is a favorite. Also If I say my  Jollof rice made in my own way  fresh tomatoes and peppers , prawns and sweet corn with a dash of curry and yellow pepper. It is inspired by my mom’s recipe.

 

Jollof Rice - Dorothy's Recipe 



Fresh tomatoes

3-5kg  (7lbs) fresh Plum Tomatoes

Vegetable Oil:

5 onions

Red hot chili pepper

Cameroon Pepper

Yellow pepper

3¾ cups (750g) long grain parboiled rice

Chicken (whole chicken, drumsticks or chicken breast)

Pepper and salt (to taste)

3 Knorr cubes

2 teaspoons thyme

2 teaspoons curry powder (Nigerian curry powder)

2kg Prawns /shrimps

Sweet corn

Garlic and ginger

Bay leaves

 


Cooking Directions

 Wash and blend the fresh plum tomatoes. Cut the onions into small pieces. Blend some with the tomatoes and peppers together


 Put some of the Oil 2 Mug cups I use  let the Oil get very hot then


 Pour the fresh tomato blend into the pot and cook at low heat till almost all the tomatoes and stir at short intervals till the oil has completely separated from the tomato puree. A well fried tomato puree will also have streaks of oil, unlike when you first added the oil and it was a smooth mix of the tomato puree and oil.


Omnomnom!


 Boil your Chicken separately with onions salt and Knorr cubes like 3 keep the chicken stock pour it into your fried tomatoes then add the prawns then drained parboiled rice, curry powder, salt and pepper to taste. The water you add is basically a little above the rice level steam the mixture at low heat stirring a few times when the water is drying up add your sweet corn  bay leaves and a little ginger then cover the rice mix till it's cooked I don't like my rice too soft so a monitor it


 Sometimes people add margarine so that it doesn't burn but my mum didn't teach me with Margarine or to add tomato puree .

  

 Grill the chicken to your taste I like lemon and Garlic with a little brown sugar in my grill mix with soy sauce and little oil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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