My Favorite Food Of Winter by @akareen

I am delighted to welcome you all to my blog, this is an interesting contest hosting in the hindwhale community, in Nigeria we have two season summer and winter season, the most popular name we used to called winter season is dry season. People usually experience cool weather in the morning and night, dry season start from November to march, and is also the period where foreigner travel down to Nigeria for tourism.

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Winter's Delight- Tell us about your favorite food of winter.

I am from Yoruba culture in Nigeria, we have different local food we normally taken during this season. My Favorite food in this period is PAP because it helps my body to warmth, OGI is the local name we used to called it but English name is pap.

We can add milk and sugar so that we can enjoy our life to the fullest, after preparation of this food with hot water we can drink this pap instantly all the sweat will start coming out from our body as if we stay in the oven bread for a long period of time.

Traditional or Cultural Connection:Is it a traditional winter food in your country? Do you eat this food every day or occasionally?

Yes, it is traditionally food in my country that promote unity among the family and also create sense of belonging within the family setting.

Even during the summer season old people above 70 years of age like pap because they need something hot, some family use to prepared this food in the morning with moimoi so as to build strong family relationship.

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Secret Ingredients: Any secret ingredients that make the food special?
We can prepare pap with three different ingredient, some people can use dried maize or dried guinea corn or millet while other can use combination of dried maize and dried millet only. The other ingredient they can add to it is ginger.

We will first of all soak our dried maize or guinea corn into the water for two or three days after that we will wash our soak maize and add ginger to it. Then we will carry the maize or guinea corn to the grinding machine after we have successfully grind the maize softly.

We now mix it with plenty of water with intention to remove the chaff after the process, we should allow it to settle and keep it inside the fridge, everyday we must change the water and put another clean water to it. We can consume our pap anytime or any day.

Nourishment Factor: is it nourishing winter food for you or is there any health benefit of this food?

This food I am talking about has a lot of medicinal benefits, it helps to fight against high blood pressure as well as malaria symptom once we consume this food it will flush away those unwanted infection and pass out through the urine.

Pap helps an individuals to regain more strength in order to be able to perform some certain tasks. In addition, pap can easily digest in our body unlike others food, that's why pap is the most favorite food of everyone during the dry season. Pap contains vitamins which help an individuals to stay healthy.

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Recommendation: Do you recommend this food to taste others

I recommend this food to every users, the food taste good and nice if we add milk sugar and honey, in facts every household will like to consume it, it is natural food that helps people who find it difficult to sleep.

I also recommend this food for nursing mother due to high nutrient this food contains because it contribute to children developmental upbringing.

Conclusion

I appreciate the organiser @pea07 for organising this meaningful contest and I hope we will continue to learn from each others. I would like to invite @whizzbro4eva, @josepha, @rossnenye and @salifu to participate in this contest.

Best regards
@akareen