Hi everybody, welcome to my blog. Lol, you will ask why a food post?I am a food lover and I am also considering adding a few recordings/videos to my YouTube channel and make it official, aside being a psychologist ,I am a nature and food lover... I have tried making different foods . Lol, some come out okay and some not so okay cos they aren't our local foods. However,that won't stop me from continuing with this amazing passion. Let me stop rambling and get on to the business of the day or night depending on where you are. :)

I will be showing a step by step tutorial on how to make jellof rice. First what is Jellof rice... Jellof rice is a local rice being cooked by Africans and all have their different ways/methods of preparation. Mine is the typical Nigerian Jellof rice which is popular that if there is no Jellof rice in a party, I guess such party is incomplete.

Ingredients needed with picture/Non pictures, forgot to take a shot of some of the ingredients.

Onions PS: I used a lot of onions, this was taken for a particular preparation.

Salt

Pepper (Habanero pepper, green, red and yellow ball peppers)

Seasoning cubes (Maggi chicken flavor)

Groundnut oil/sunflower oil, anyone you can get hold of. Here I used mamador

Nutmeg.

Thyme

Curry

The following I couldn't take a picture of them, Totally forgot army guests where approaching and I needed to get everything read and prepare myself also. (Sweet corn, green pea, chopped carrot, spring onions).

parboiled rice.

Tin tomatoes/Tomato paste.

water.

Preparations;

Wash and Chop onions, ball peppers, carrots, spring onions set them aside.
Wash your preferred meat, here I used chicken and turkey.
Blend your Ball peppers, onions, habanero pepper, thyme, curry, Seasoning cubes, I guess you are wondering why I blended the thyme, seasoning cubes and curry, i always do that to properly mix the ingredients. Here is a picture below of what I meant.

Here's a picture of curry being added to the mix

The mixture after blending.

Pour the blended mixture in an already washed turkey and chicken meat.

cover the pot and shake it so the ingredients will penetrate inside the meat. Below is a picture

if you are cooking it immediately, put the meat in a freezer and allow it to marinate for at least 20mins. I allowed mine over night.

Bring out the meat from the freezer and place it on a medium heat to boil. The outcome is below.

I don't fry my meat, here it is in the oven

Left it for 15mins and brought it down, don't want it to be extremely dry.

As the meat is boiling, i brought another clean pot and placed it on a low heat where I can fry my tomatoe paste to dry, if not the food will come out with a funny taste.

after 70secs of allowing the oil to be hot a bit, I added an already chopped onions and stir fried it for 20secs

Added the tomato paste and allow to boil/fry on a low heat.

That aside I put another put on fire and added little oil, allowed it for some secs added Onions, green, yellow and red ball peppers. Below are pictures.

Add the already dried/fried tomato paste

Add the chicken stock and allow it to boil

once the stock is boiling add the parboiled rice, allow it to boil for 10mins, add the sweet corn, green pea , chopped carrot and the rest. Leave for 5 mins and bring it down.

At this point I couldn't take anymore pictures reason being that my guest where already arriving and I had to quickly shower and prepare for their arival. Here is the completed food with salad and chicken by the side.

Here is me about munching the food before I jumped into the bathroom. Lol.

Come join me and which other food would you want me to try out? Comment below.

All pictures were taken with an iPad and techno cx.

Happy new year :)