Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 1 Week2️⃣ | Who Is Your Favorite Chef 🧑‍🍳 in Your Family?

Greetings to every member of this community and to Steemians in general. I am @bolaji001 and I am participating in the ongoing engagement challenge by the Steemit team. Today being the last day of week 2 contest, I will be sharing with us, who the favorite chef in my family is, the person's cooking skills, favorite recipes etc.. This is another great contest idea from the @steemitfoods community, last week's contest was amazing but this week's contest is even better. It brings us together and enables us to learn from each other cooking skills.

MY FAVORITE CHEF IN MY FAMILY

My favorite chef is myself :)
For as long as I can remember, I have always loved being around where cooking is going on, on regular days, I would be in the kitchen with my mummy just loitering about. My Mum saw that I had interest in cooking and took it upon herself to teach me how to cook.
My mum taught me everything I need to knowing about cooking; how to improvise when some ingredients are not enough or not present at all, how to turn around a badly cooked meal etc.
Though I am very grateful to my mum for all the cooking knowledge she has imparted in me and I still do love her cooking very much, I would say still say I am my favorite chef. I said this because since she taught me almost all I know about cooking, indirectly she is my favorite chef too it is a win win for both of us lol.
One of the reasons my mum taught me how to cook so well, is to avoid buying food from restaurants, as it's not too palatable and also way costlier than when one makes their own meal.
I totally agree and appreciate her efforts as it has greatly helped me cut off some unnecessary expenses on buying food in school. Instead, I prepare them myself which is way cheaper.
I see my friends complaining about how they spend too much on buying food from restaurants in school.

IMAGES OF ME COOKING

MY COOKING SKILLS

Not to boast, but I believe that my cooking skills are top notch. This can be confirmed by my family members and many of my hostel mates in school, especially my roommate.
My roommate in school is always glad and elated whenever it is my turn to take on cooking duties. Occasionally I do a little bit large scale cooking for my hostel mates too, they always love it, some will even jokingly say that I should consider starting a restaurant business, positive feedbacks and compliments are always received.

MY FAVORITE RECIPE

My Goto recipe is a rather simple one but very very tasty and delicious. People are always surprised how something prepared so easily and within a short period of time comes out so delicious.
This my favourite recipe is Jollof Spaghetti
Below are the ingredients I use to prepare my very tasty and delicious Jollof Spaghetti;

Spaghetti pack
Vegetable Oil
Onions
Tin tomatoes (grounded tomatoes pepper)
Chilli pepper
Curry
Thyme
Knoor chicken cubes
and water.

HOW TO PREPARE MY FAVORITE RECIPE (JOLLOF SPAGHETTI)

Jollof Spaghetti, can be taken with almost any protein (beef, fish, chicken egg etc.). I will be showing you in detail how to cook Jollof Spaghetti with eggs.

Cooking Jollof Spaghetti has three (3) stages;

Stage 1: Parboiling the Spaghetti

STEP 1: Boil salted water

STEP 2: Cut and rinse the spaghetti

STEP 3: Pour the rinsed spaghetti in to the boiling salted water

STEP 4: Leave to parboil for roughly 10 minutes and set aside.

Now that we have our parboiled spaghetti, it is time for Stage 2.

Stage 2: Prepare the Stew

STEP 5: Pour the vegetable oil into the pot and heat

STEP 6: Fry the onions in the heated Oil

STEP 7: Gradually add (curry, thyme, Knoor chicken cubes and salt). Stir fry as you do this. Also add small quantity of water to loosen the mixture.

STEP 8: Then, add the Tin tomatoes (grounded tomatoes pepper) and Chilli pepper add some more water and leave to fry for about 8 minutes.

With this we now have our parboiled spaghetti and stew done, we move to Stage 3;

Stage 3: Mixing Spaghetti with Stew

STEP 9: Gradually pour and mix your set aside parboiled Spaghetti into the stew. Mix thoroughly until each spaghetti strand is mixed with stew.

STEP 10: Leave to cook for final 2 minutes. After, our Jollof Spaghetti is done :)

Next is to boil our eggs, this is relatively simple. Just put the eggs in pot containing water to totaly immerse them and boil for about 10 minutes.

And that is it. You have successfully prepared Jollof Spaghetti and Egg :)

Me enjoying my well cooked Jollof Spaghetti and egg.

CONCLUSION

Every family has that one person who is always in charge of cooking, makes the best dishes, everyone loves his/her cooking. In my own family that person is my Mum, but since she has carefully taught me her methods and I have mastered them plus my own knowledge, I might as well just say I am my Favorite Chef.
I really do love cooking as it is healthier for one too cook their food rather than buying from restaurants plus it saves a lot of unnecessary expenses.

Thanks for reading, I really appreciate. I hope you have now mastered how to cook Spaghetti Jollof.
I would like to see you give it a try and post here on @steemitfoods channel.