When the word cooking is mentioned, a lady would be attributed or credited for that. Some months back, a Nigerian lady broke world record of longest cooking hours. Everyone were in awe as this lady cooked for 100 hours. To this trend, others set up a challenge to beat her record. Quite impressive. All these is attributed to cooking.

Do you know Men can cook? We're just being reserved. In this post, I'll be teaching you guys how to cook with limited resources, a sweet simple African dish called Palm Oil Rice. This dish doesn't require something elaborate although many may choose to make it rich.

The ingredients I used were;

Palm oil, Spices(thyme, curry powder, jollof spice,etc), Onions
Rice
Eggs and pepper
Crayfish, Maggi, salt and ground pepper

These are the few ingredients I used to cook this simple, sumptuous meal. Watch out.

Many people have their own way of preparing this type of rice. Some would wash the rice and won't parboil while some would cook the rich unwashed and then parboil it. I want to cook and then wash after cooking. To prepare a palm oil rice dish; you need to follow the following steps appropriately.

• Before cooking such a meal, ensure your ingredients are intact and that nothing essential is lacking. Also know the nature of your rice before boiling. Long grain doesn't need much water while short grain needs to avoid chewing rather than eating the grain.

• Use a sizeable pot and put a reasonable amount of water in it. In this process, I'll be cooking only 2 cups of rice. Add the 2 cups of rice and ensure the water is above the rice to some extent. Heat the rice on medium heat and allow it to steam.

• Once the rice steams, check of the rice is a bit soft before turning of the heat. After that, pour the rice into a basin and then wash it. Use a shifter to pack the rice and put on a separate basin.Use that post you boiled the rice at first and heat it on medium heat after ensuring the post is empty of rice. After the pot is heated to dryness, add 4 teaspoon full of oil to avoid making the rice oily. After add your oil, allow to steam then add your ground crayfish with 2½ cubes of maggi, pepper, 2 bulbs of sliced onions and other ingredients. I enjoy frying mine ingredients so that the scent would influence the kitchen and add flavour to the rice.

• After frying for 2 minutes, turn of the heat and add salt to your rice contained in the basin. After adding salt to obtain balance, turn in the rice into the pot you used in frying those ingredients and then mix thoroughly. Ensure the rice blends with the ingredients......Add water to level the rice and the heat it again.

• Before waiting for it to dry, taste the rice to see if the ingredients are balanced. If they are, wait until the rice dries. Once it dries, serve it on a flat plate and accompany it with a chilled drink and protein which is the egg as shown below.

Palm oil rice is one the the best local African dish ever.

I choose to prepare this recipe because it's my favorite recipe and it's easy to cook. Under 45 minutes, you're good to go. It also doesn't need elaborate ingredients to prepare. With palm oil, crayfish, salt, maggi, pepper and onions, your food is served. The burnt part of the rice is always the sweetest part.....I enjoy eating that burnt part of palm oil rice. The food is really enjoyable the following day after you've heated it again.

We all have hands, both male and female. In a family setting, it's known that the wife does cook for the family but you as a man can contribute in preparing the meal with her. Men can cook too. I wish you guys can have a taste of my rice. I bet you guys would enjoy it.

This is how to prepare the African Palm Oil Rice. called Rice Adañ in my locality....Call Mr chef @bossj23. It's not easy to try new methods of cooking.

I invite @uyisaac, @basil20, @patjewell, @usoro01, and @tomlister