Meat Pie Snacks.

Meat Pie is a form of Snack that is good and healthy. Its made up of the Dough and the Fillings. The Dough is made up of Flour, Baking Powder, Baking Butter, Eggs, Water, Nutmeg and Salt. The Fillings is made up of Potatoes, Carrot, Oil, Thyme, Eggs, Minced Meat, onion and Water. The dough is used to enclosed the fillings to be baked in an oven. A fully ready Meat Pie is good with Soda or Water for Lunch. Almost every important food substances are present in Meat Pie.

Meat Pie

Broken Meat Pie

Moi Moi

Moi Moi is prepared from beans. The beans is soaked in water, peal off the back and blend it with pepper, onion, and tomatoes. The blended beans is cooked in leaf,aluminium foil or polythene bags. Eggs, liver and prawn is added to make it nourishing before cooking. The cooked Moi Moi can be eaten raw or eaten with Bread, Gari (Cassava flakes), rice etc. This food is great for lunch and easily prepared within a short time.

Moi Moi in foil

Moi Moi in polythene bags

Fried Ripe Plantain and Beans

Fried ripe plantain and beans is a food everyone will like for lunch. The plantain must be ripe and sliced with a little salt added, this is fried in vegetable oil until its done. The beans which is a good source of protein is cooked with prawn, fish and palm oil until its so soft. The ingredients added varies depending on your taste. The combination of fried plantain and beans is so delicious and add so much nutrients to the body. The beans can also go with cassava flakes in water. The fried plantain is equally good with rice or with fried egg.

Fried Ripe Plantain

Fried Plantain with Beans

Pounded Yam with Vegetable and Melon Soup.

Bolus Foods are soft, roundish mass or lump,especially of chewed food that are prepared and eaten with different types of Soups. Example of the bolus food is Pounded yam with vegetable and melon soup. The Pounded yam is prepared by pounding boiled yam in a mortar using pestle. The soup can come with assorted meat such as stock fish, goat meat, bush meat, snail etc. In the village the food can equally go with palm wine and other drinks. Pounded yam is a respected food among the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria. The best way to enjoy the food is by using hand instead of cutlery. The food is made up of all the essential nutrients.

Mortar and Pestle

Pounded Yam with vegetable soup.

Jollof Rice with Plantain and Chicken.

Cooking African food is not as difficult as many people think. I find pleasure in cooking because my mother made it a point of duty that whenever she is cooking the children must be in the kitchen with her. So despite being a man, I can cook various food from Yoruba tribe in Nigeria.

The responsibility of cooking in a household is on the woman or wife but my mother is of the opinion that man must be able to cook for himself and his home when the wife is indisposed or not available.

So what a woman can do in the kitchen, a man should be able to do better. I will be explaining how to cook various African food and the ingredients required with the health benefit will be enumerated carefully

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