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What is that Special recipe peculiar to your country? It could be special drinks, desserts, or any other delicacy

Nigeria is blessed with a lot of delicacies, such that each tribe has its meals, am from the Yoruba tribe and we have a wide space for different delicacies on the menu, the meal peculiar to me in my country are many, such as amala and ewedu soup, eforiro, egusi soup, Jollof and fried rice and many more.

For this contest I will be choosing a simple meal, for the sake of peculairity in my country, this meal is often eaten in our homes with limited amount to spend and also with less time to the end result.

This meal is a mixture of few recipes, and it no other than the Nigerian concoction rice, it is prepared with a mixture of a few recipes with rice and the end results is a very delicious and satisfying.

Is there any history attached to it? Explain.

🤔🤔, concoction rice is a meals mostly common among the yorubas, but it is seen prepared by other tribes in Nigeria, because of the cost effective recipe of preparing it.

There isn't a history or story attached to this meal, it is a simple meal that requires a mixture of ingredients to prepare, it could be eaten with fish, meat, chicken turkey and most commonly boiled egg.

The reason behind the popularity of this meal is because of it cost effectiveness and secondly it is mostly prepared by tertiary student as such every student (of different tribes) across Nigeria have learned the recipe, such that other tribes prepare this meal when there is little money to make a meal.

As good and satisfying this meal his, i can go for months without tasting this meal, I don't have any form of addiction toward this meal.

How is it prepared? Show us the steps required for its preparation or you can buy from a restaurant and promote the business.

To prepare this meal we have to have the following recipes

• Rice
• Salt
• Spicy pepper/ hepacano pepper
• Tomatoes(optional)
• Maggi
• oninons
• Groundnut oil
• fish/egg/meat (optional)

To begin with we ensure the pepper is properly blended(some prefer it sliced), and then we pour groundnut oil in the cooking pot and put it on fire.

After about few second on fire, we pour the blended pepper and allow the it to fry just a little bit(max10sec), then pour a litre amount of water in the pot(depends on the amount of rice you are cooking), then slice your onions into it and allow it to steam.

In about 5-10 minutes, it would have been steaming depending on the cooker you are using, we wash our rice and pour it into the pot.

Check again in 10 minutes, the rice would have softened coupled mix with the oil and pepper, as such add Maggie(2 cubes), and little salt, you can choose to stir or not, Cook until the water in it has dried, and turn off your cooker, the food is ready.

There are different methods to cook this meal, some can choose to boil the rice first and then add all of the ingredients after, either way its cooked, the result will surely be sumptuous, if you are cooking with an egg, Like in my case you can boil the egg as you cook the concoction rice and everything will be ready at once.

What are your recommendations for others about this food

I tell you, give it a try, you will be convinced, especially if you have enough you can sprinkle roasted fish and add crayfish, oh lord, you would wish you had been eating it for a very long time.

I recommend you to follow the method I highlighted to cook the meal for a better end result, it is completely natural, looking at the recipes, In addition, it severs as a fast food that doesn't consume much time to prepare, the concoction rice Is delicious and cost-effective.

In conclusion, I have demonstrated a way to cook a concoction rice with a minimal amount of money but you can choose to spice it up with a lot of protein by adding fish, crayfish, and meat. The food is nutritious as you can assume the rice as starch and the egg as protein. It doesn't take much time and it is very delicious meal.

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