Steemit Engagement Challenge / S19W4 - "My city special bites ."

The belly is created for food and food is created for Man to enable an enjoyable life. Imagine having the taste of your favorite meal, and complementing the taste with a good wine or mineral! How do you normally feel? Life is good, not so?

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We are blessed with a variety of food all over the world, from grains, and vegetables to even meats and fish, etc. We combine this beautiful ingredient differently depending on our environment to make a meal.

In this post, I will be sharing a special rice recipe, and steps to preparing it with you. The Nigeria's Jollof rice

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JOLLOF RICE

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Nigeria's Jollof rice emanates from Nigeria, and it is a special way of preparing rice to have a yummy taste. Rice together with fresh tomatoes or tomato paste, with other ingredients, all mixed and cooked. But it is a step-by-step process. The following are the ingredients for preparing Jollof rice;

1. rice
2. fresh tomatoes or tomato paste
3. fish or meat
4. seasonings( Maggie and salt)
5. spices( curry or ginger, and pepper )
6. vegetable oil
7. onions

The special combination of the above steps gives us our yummy Jollof rice. Let's now see the steps to preparing it.

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STEPS TO PREPARING JOLLOF RICE

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1. wash the rice. Some prefer to wash their rice in cold water, while some parboil the rice and wash. But in my case, I washed it in cold water.

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2. wash and season your meat or fish. If it's fresh fish or meat, wash it, season it, and cook it. But if you only use dry fish, there may be no need to cook it before using, you may just wash it. I used dry fish, so I washed it.

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3. wash your onion and pepper if fresh. Wash your onion and dice it, then wash your pepper and pound or grind it.

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4. prepare your seasonings and spices

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5. prepare your tomatoes. If fresh tomatoes, wash them and blend, and cook for ten to fifteen minutes. But there may be no need for this if you are using tomato paste, in this post I used tomato paste.

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6. place your cooking pot on fire, put your vegetable oil, and allow it to become hot. Then put your diced onions in the hot oil, and allow it for a minute, please while doing this be careful, you may reduce the flame of your cooker and shift a little. After a minute or thereabout of putting diced onions, put your tomato paste or prepared fresh tomatoes, and then allow it for some minutes on fire while stirring with your stirrer.

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7. put the quantity of water that would soften your rice while being mindful of the water you used in seasoning your meat or fish because you will also add this to have the desired taste, then put your washed rice or parboiled rice.

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8. put your seasoning(Maggi and salt), spices( ginger or curry, and pepper), and your prepared fish or meat, then cover your pot and allow your rice to be cooked until the water dries.

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9. your Jollof rice is ready.

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Note: The quantity of every other Ingredient has to complement the quantity of rice to enable you to have that yummy taste.

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Conclusively, Nigeria's Jollof rice is one of the delicious meals enjoyed by the Nigerians, and even by citizens of other countries. This meal is served at gatherings, and the yummy taste of Jollof rice is worth having, you may wish to include it in your menu.

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