Cooking Week5: My Cooking Skills

Warm greetings to everyone here and all steemians across the globe, I'm excited to be part of this contest, especially when it has to do with cooking and food, because me and food we are bestie and nothing can separate us🤣.

Before I proceed, I will give a special thanks to our dear admin @solaymann for organizing such an amazing contest, please endeavour to read to the end, I bet you will enjoy it at the end.

Alright, let's begin with the hint questions.

What is the name of your cooking recipe? How is it's popularity?

My MTN rice (red oil rice)

The recipe of what I cooked today is called MTN rice or Red oil rice. This is a very popular food in my country Nigeria, and it is common food , what I mean is that it is very simple to cook and easy to lay hands on.

Before I proceed with the method of preparation, I will list out the items/recipe I used in cooking it.

No.	Items	Quantity
1.	Rice	2 cups
2.	Egg	1 small size
3.	Crayfish	1 bowl
4.	Onions	1 big size
5.	Maggi	4 cubes
6.	Red oil	Per quantity
7.	Pepper	Per quantity
8.	Salt	Per quantity
9.	Pumpkin leaf	Small Quantity

Mention five (at least) consecutive photos and description of your cooked recipes

Step 1

I put the raw into the pot, put water in the quantity I wanted then I parboiled it for about 10 -15minutes. Then I removed it from the fire and pour into the sifter to wash it.

The parboiled rice
Step 2
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I put the empty pot on fire, then pour in the quantity of red oil that I want into the pot to heat, before then I have already pound the crayfish and also sliced the pumpkin leaves and onions and set aside while the rice was on fire.

Putting the red oil into the pot to heat

Step 3

The red oil has heated for another 2 minutes then I pour in the sliced onions into the oil and fried it.

Putting the onions into the heated oil

Step 4

After frying the onions for 40seconds, then I added other ingredients, ranging from the pounded crayfish, Maggi, salt and pepper, stir it all together and allow it steam for about 2 minutes.

after putting all the ingredients

Step 5

After the 2 minutes, and then pour in the parboiled rice into the pot and add little amount of water, stir it well and taste for salt.

Putting the rice into the pot
Step 6
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After stiring it wel, I washed the raw egg well and insert it into the bottom part of the pot of rice, so that it will cooked well, then I covered the pot so that it will cook very fast.

Covering the pot
Step 7
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I allowed the rice to boil for about 20 -25 minutes, by then the water was drying off gradually, so I put the sliced pumpkin leaves into the pot of rice.

After putting the pumpkin leaves

After putting the pumpkin leaves I covered the pot and allowed it to simmer for about 3 -5minutes, then I turned off the gas. My MTN rice is fully ready.

My MTN rice

I dished out the portion I wanted to eat into the plate and took a selfie of it first before I start eating it to my satisfaction.

Thanks for reading my post
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I wish you well