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Greetings to everyone in this community and I hope all is well. My name is @hayleydemi and I am from Nigeria, what a lovely contest organized by @ngoenyi. I have so many creative ideas that I would really love to share with this community but today I will be telling you an African dish which I prepared called coconut rice.


As a lady it is my responsibility for me to have the skill of cooking and taking care of the family though apart from being the lady of the family, I also enjoy the activity called cooking. Cooking is the act of carefully putting ingredients and be able to mix them in the right proportion that it will give a good taste. They are many who believes that cooking is just all about cutting onion, pepper and other and just putting it into the pot. Cooking is more than that, it entails you to be able to measure the right amount of ingredients you need for a particular quantity of food and it also needs you to be able to follow the right process to cook the food in order for it to come out delicious. Cooking is an art of its own, some process required to cook may be long while some may be short it all differs due to the type of food you want to prepare.

In my article today I will be telling you how I prepared a delicacy called coconut rice. As the name implies it is made out of coconut and other ingredients but the main ingredient is coconut, this Nigerian food is adored and loved by many because of its uniqueness and sweet flavour it gives to our taste buds when we eat it. Only the cent of the food during cooking will tell you that the food is really nutritious. Now here are some of the ingredients I used in cooking the coconut rice.


1 rice


2 Coconut


3 Fresh Pepper


4 Onion


5 Maggi


6 Dry Fish


7 Crayfish


8 Salt


9 Groundnut oil


10 Spices such as coconut spice

HOW TO PREPARE COCONUT RICE

To prepare a particular food there is a step by step process which you must follow and I will be giving you a detailed process of how I prepare the coconut rice.

Wash and Per boil your rice and keep aside

Then break your coconut and grid

Your grinded coconut

After grinding the coconut you extract the milk from the chaff and keep aside

Pound your pepper, add your crayfish, and pour them inside the milk or coconut water extracted from the coconut.

Your grinded pepper

Also add your maggi, salt and onion into the coconut milk and put into the fire and allow to boil.

Then add a little groundnut oil and allow the coconut milk water to boil. After sometime add your per boil rice inside the coconut water.

Then wash your fish, remove the bones in the fish and add into the boiling rice, stir and cover.

Allow the water to dry for 10 minutes.


After that your coconut rice is ready.

Coconut rice has it benefits as it contain many vitamin's and nutrients in it and you can also spice it up a little by adding either carrot to it or vegetables to make it even more nutritious. I would love to invite @goodybest, @mesola , @divinelife to participate in this amazing contest