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posted May 4, 2010, 9:51 AM by Gladys Ngwe
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updated May 8, 2010, 8:19 AM by reinoud vaandrager
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Recipe
ServesIngredients- 1 kg koki beans
- 1 liter red palm oil
- 1 tablespoon salt
Preparation- Wash the beans to be peal up, pick out any dirt in it.
- Ground it and divide in to half.
- Put it in a molter or an open pot.
- Add teaspoon salt and a small cup of water.
- Stand a frying pan in the fire and add oil and let it bleach.
- Start tiring the beans in the pot so that is should be rising.
- Take a frying spoon and a small dishing spoon (flat spoon)
- Stand a dish of water close to you.
- When the oil is ready not too hot no cold, you will take a flat spoon and be removing the beans and putting it inside the pot.
- Once you put one, sent your spoon inside the water to prevent it from oil.
- Make sure that the oil should not touch your spoon because immediately as oil touches your spoon and you don't sent it inside the water, and just sent straight to the molter, it will not rise again.
- Make sure that one should be on it own not putting one on top of another and you don't have to put so-many at a time.
- After ten minutes, turn it for the other side to done and in another seven minutes you remove and put another set.
- When finish, add the remaining one in the molter and do same.
Extra information - It is vegetarian
- It is not spicy.
- Recipe contributor: Rose Mbef
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posted May 4, 2010, 9:42 AM by Gladys Ngwe
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updated May 8, 2010, 8:22 AM by reinoud vaandrager
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Recipe Frying Beans (black) and gatau or cassava etc.
ServesIngredients- 1 kg of beans
- ½ liter of red palm oil or groundnut oil (peanut oil)
- 2 tablespoon salt
- 3 cubes of maggi (vegetable stock)
- 1 ½ large onion
- 1 teaspoon garlic
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1 teaspoon green spices
- ¼ kg of crayfish
- ½ kg of fresh tomatoes or 2 tin tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon of flesh pepper
Preparation- Boil the beans with five liters of water
- After one hour thirty minutes removes the pot and drainage the water and through it away and stand the pot back on the fire and add four liters of water in it.
- Add one tablespoon salt in it.
- After one hour thirty minutes, if the water has evaporate if not, you should just remove it and put it in a dish that is having holes in it so that the small remaining water will come out.
- Stand a new pot in the fire and put the oil in it if it is red oil, you bleach it and if it is peanut oil , you should just live it for ten minutes to hot.
- After, add salt, onion, add all the spices with tomatoes and stir it for thirty minutes and add beans and crayfish and stir and cover it for twenty minutes and stir it and remove the pot from the fire.
Extra information- Recipe contributor: Ndah Edith.
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posted May 4, 2010, 9:32 AM by Gladys Ngwe
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updated May 8, 2010, 8:24 AM by reinoud vaandrager
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Recipe:- Guinea corn fufu (with fresh okra and beef)
Serves:Ingredients:- 1 kg of guinea corn flower
Preparation:- Stand four liters of water in the fire.
- When the water boil, remove two liters and stand.
- Put corn flower in the pot and stir it for twenty minutes and add one liter of water.
- Stir it for ten minutes and finish adding the one liter water if the fufu is not too soft.
- Stir it for another twenty minutes and be removing it in the quantity that you want and be wrapping it in a banana leaf or you just put it in a dish.
Extra information:- Recipe contributor: Mary Nkfu.
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posted Mar 18, 2010, 4:45 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 28, 2010, 6:46 AM by reinoud vaandrager
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Recipe- Pepper Soup and coco-yam or plantains
ServesIngredients- 1 kg of flesh beef,(legs or any parts that are having fat and bones 1 tablespoon garlic
- 1 tablespoon ginger
- 2 tablespoon bush pepper
- 2 tablespoon njansan
- 2 large onion
- 1 tablespoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon green leafs (leaks, parceling,celery, cutmajou and onion)
Preparation- Boil the meat with five liters of water for forty minutes
- Clean your yam or plantains and add it inside put all the spices except salt if it is plantains.
- Leave it for another forty minutes and you add salt and oil
- And leave it for twenty minutes and stir and remove the pot from the fire.
Extra information- It is not vegetarian
- It is spicy
- Recipe contributor: Dorothy Tonain.
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posted Mar 10, 2010, 4:19 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM
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Recipe
Serves
Ingredients
Preparation
Cut the neck half way for the
blood to come out also for it to die.
Roast it in the fire all round for
ten minutes and removes the feathers also roast the legs and peal
it out.
Roast it for thirty minutes and
cut it in the middle and remove the intestine and clean it and wash
it with water and roast.
Roast the it until blood is no
more coming out of it.
But roast it for one hour and
above.
Cut it to number of slices that
you want.
Take a pot, put oil, salt, maggi
and add the chicken and use your hand to turn it and mix it. You
may burst the pepper to it.
Extra information
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posted Mar 10, 2010, 4:15 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM
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Recipe
Serves
Ingredients
1 ½ kg of crushed flesh corn
¼ liter of red palm oil
1 large onion
4 green soft cocoyam leafs
1 tablespoon salt
3 cubes of maggi ( vegetable
stock)
½ kg of dried fish of any kind
2 yellow pepper or red
6 banana leafs
Preparation
Ground the corn and put in a dish
Put ¼ liter of water
Add salt, maggi, slice onion,
fish, pepper and slice the cocoyam leafs and add and mix it very
well.
Warm the banana leafs in the fire
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Stand a pot in the fire add a
small cup of water in it.
Fix the leafs and bend it to be
double and put it flat in a tray.
Remove the koki with a spoon in a
quantities that can correct to all the leafs and wrap it and put it
inside the pot.
When finish, covered the pot for
twenty minutes and open and add three liters of water .
After two hours thirty minutes if
the water have evaporate, remove the pot from the fire.
Extra information
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posted Mar 10, 2010, 4:11 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM
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Recipe
Serves
Ingredients
Preparation
Peal the plantains and wash.
Slice it round round.
Ground the onion
Put a two tablespoon of water in a
dish add salt and maggi and onion.
Put the plantains inside and mix.
Stand a frying pan in the fire and
put the oil and hot it for twn minutes and add the plantains not
much but depending on the size of the frying pan.
After fifteen minutes, turn it and
live it for ten minutes for the other side to done.
Remove it and add another set.
Extra information
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posted Mar 10, 2010, 4:09 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM
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Recipe- Roasted fish (mackerel) with
bobulou or roasted plantains
Serves
Ingredients
1 kg of fish ( medium size
½ of groundnut oil ( peanut oil)
2 tablespoon of green spices (
leak, onion, celerine, cumajou, parceling,)
1 teaspoon garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1 cube of maggi (vegetables stock)
2 peppers
Preparation
Wash the fish and remove the fins
with the stomach and the gills.
In any side of the fish, cut two
places each for the spices to enter.
Put it in a clean dish and add a
teaspoon of salt in and rob all the fish with.
Ground all the spices and add half
small cup of water and steam it with salt and maggi for fifteen
minutes.
After the fifteen minutes remove
and and put it in a dish and add groundnut oil and stir it to mix.
Light your charcoal pot and take a
paper to be blowing the fire with and also, take a brush ( straight
soft brush) and put it inside the spices and stir the spices with
the brush and remove the brush and spice the fish and put it in the
fire one or two at a time depending how the size of your charcoal
pot is.
After five minutes spices the fish
again and let it stay for another five minutes and you turn it and
spice it again.
Spice this side the same. And
after the ten minutes, spice all the side and live it for another
ten minutes.
Extra information
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posted Mar 10, 2010, 4:02 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM
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Recipe- Egussi Prudent (with roasted
banana or bobulou etc.)
Serves
Ingredients
Preparation
Ground the egussi, garlic, and
pepper
Boil the meat and slice it in
small quantities
Slice the onion
Sun the leafs in the sun or you
warm it in the fire
Take a dish and put the egussi
inside and add garlic, Salt, onion and meat and add a small cup of
water and stir it to mix.
Take a leaf and put it in a plate
and remove 5 tablespoon and put it in a leaf and tie it straight not flat.
After, stand a pot in the fire and
put a small cup of water and let it stay for fifteen minutes and you
add one liter of water and let it stay for an hour and you remove it.
Extra information
- It is not vegetarian
- It is spicy
- Recipe contributor: Kristina Agouh
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posted Mar 10, 2010, 3:47 AM by Joshua Chiamba
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updated Mar 19, 2010, 2:34 AM
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Recipe
- Garri (transform from cassava)
and okra soup
Serves
Ingredients
¼ kg flesh okra
1 kg flesh meat (beef)
½ kg of Agussi
5 cubes of maggi (vegetables
stock)
1 teaspoon garlic
½ kg okomabo (green leafs)
1 tablespoon salt
green spices ( leak, sparling,
celerine, cumajou)
Preparation of okra soup
Wash the okra, slice it and put it
in a dish and pound it and add a small cup of water and mix it with
a spoon.
Stand a put in the fire with one
liter of water put the agussi inside with the okra and stir it to
mix.
When it boil after five minutes,
add the spices and meat with everything and allow it for twenty five
minutes.
After the twenty five minutes,
remove the pot from the fire.
Preparation for Garri
Take a new pot, add seven liter
water and stand it in the fire.
When the water boil, put the garri
in a big clean dish and remove the water and put it inside and stir
it with a spoon for a minutes and drainer out the water immediately.
Extra information
It is not vegetarian
It is spicy
Once you put the okra in a pot
and stand it in the fire, you don't have to cover the pot until you
finish the preparation. Even when you remove the pot from the fire
you have to let it cold before you cover it.
Recipe contributor: Hellene Nain
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