Itunu's Kitchen

November 01, 2021

Ogbono Soup

This is a delicious recipe recognized in the Draw soup family. Draw soup like Okro soup, and Ewedu Soup. Ogbono soup is a spectacular soup made with different varieties, and simple to make. Ogbono soup is one of the Igbos favourite soup. This recipe is eaten the most by the Igbo tribe. Other tribe enjoy the soup, but it is mostly owned by the Igbos.

Ogbono soup is made from ogbono seed, and seasoned with all sort of ingredients. It has a specific aroma, unlike okro, and ewedu soup. Ogbono soup is recognized and perceive by it's aroma.

The ingredients used in making ogbono soup are easy to get in the market, and affordable to buy. Ingredients such as ogbono seed, palm oil, stock fish, crayfish, meat, e.t.c

Ingredients aren't much, and it's affordable to buy at an affordable amount. For instance...

INGREDIENTS

1.) 1 cup ogbono seed - #500

2.) Meat - #500

3.) Red pepper - #50

4.) Pomo - #100

5.) Crayfish - #100

6.) Bitter leaf - #50

7.) 2 Maggi cube - #20

8.) Salt

9.) Palm oil - #100

10.) Stock fish - #500

11.) Onions - #50

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Make sure the ogbono seed is grinded in the market, seasoning the meat, stock fish, and Pomo with Maggi, salt, and onions. Cook for 20minutes.

2.) Alongside, wash the bitterleaf. Slice bitterleaf into a bowl, add salt to it, then begin to scrub together with your palm till it bring out a wety foam. Do this for 7minutes, then wash with water.

3.) After cooking the meat for 20minutes, get a clean pot to cook the ogbono soup. Place on fire, let the palm oil melt, and not to heat up. Then add ogbono seed to the palm oil, and mix all together. Make sure it covers the palm oil, then add the meat stock to it. Mix well all together, leave to cook.

4.) Begin to cook, cook for 3minutes interval and watch it by mixing all through. Add more water to it if thick. Cook for 3minutes, mix to remove the sticky ones around the side of the pot. Add in the meat, stock fish, crayfish, pomo, bitter leaf, mix together, and cook for 10minutes all together.

5.) After 10minutes to 12minutes, your ogbono soup is ready. Serve with any Nigerian Fufu of your choice.

You can do well to learn how to make this recipes.

Okro soup

Bitterleaf soup

Egusi soup

Omi Obe

Waterleaf Stew

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October 28, 2021

How To Make Doughnut - "Nigerian Doughnut Recipe"

Here comes the recipe I love taking as bread. Doughnut is a wonderful recipe to make. It is made with flour, sugar, salt, milk, yeast, e.t.c. Doughnut has a round circle shape, with a open hole in the middle. It tastes yummy when taken with chocolate.

Doughnut sometimes serves as bread for me. I love taking doughnut with stew. It taste delicious, and satisfying to me. Doughnut Recipe is simple to make, it doesn't consume very much time. One hour 30minutes is okay.

This recipe can be found in the eatery, serve in parties, bought on the street, and also made at home. It taste good, and yummy. It also can be presevable, it last for more than a day. Using fridge, or warm cooker to warm it.

How To Make Doughnut

INGREDIENTS

1.) 5 cups flour

2.) 1 cup sugar

3.) 1 egg whisked

4.) 4 tsp yeast

5.) 1 cup milk

6.) 2 tsp margarine

7.) Groundnut oil

8.) 1/2 tsp salt

INSTRUMENTS

1.) Deep frying pot

2.) Round cutter/round bowl & bottle cover

3.) Rolling pins

4.) Smooth working surface

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Pour the measured flour, salt, yeast, together in a bowl. Mix all together. Also in another bowl, pour in the milk, and sugar. Mix together, then let the sugar dissolve in the milk

2.) After 2minutes, make a hole round the flour, and pour the milk inside. Mix together, then add in the whisked egg, and also with the margarine. Mix all together, and apply water to it till it forms a stretchy dough. If dough is found hard, apply more flour to soften it.

3.) Place dough on a flat surface to be able to make the dough soften with flour, using your hand. Cut into sizes, use rolling pin to roll, and cutter to cut the dough in sizes.

4.) Place the deep frying pot on fire, heat up the Groundnut oil, and begin to fry the dough. Fry till brown, flip to the other side, and also fry till brown.

5.) Serve doughnut with soft chilled drink

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October 28, 2021

How To Make Puff Puff

This is a lovely, and cost less snack of all snacks. Puff puff is categorised as a family of snacks made with flour, and other necessary ingredients. It is easy to make, and taste lovely. Puff Puff is popularly known across the country, Nigeria. It is everyone's favourite. And also serves as fast food to buy and consume.

Puff Puff is made with flour, yeast, nutmeg e.t.c. This recipe doesn't take much amount of money to make, but requires time. Time is required when reserving the mixed flour to rise in double. Puff Puff recipe is a good recipe to invest into when taking snacks as a source of income. Other snacks can be involved also.

The ingredients used in making puff puff recipe are simple, and easy to get. Here are the ingredients listed.

INGREDIENTS

1.) 4 cups flour

2.) 2 cups like warm water

3.) 1 tsp active dry yeast

4.) 1/4 tsp nutmeg

5.) 1/2 cup sugar

6.) 1/2 tsp salt

7.) Vegetable oil for frying

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Get a clean bowl, put in the measured flour, sugar, salt, and nutmeg. Mix all ingredients together. Make sure they are all mixed together

2.) Get another bowl, then add in the Luke warm water, then apply the active yeast to it. Mix together for 5minutes, till it looks foamy.

3.) Gently pour the yeast mixture into the flour mixture. Then mix thoroughly all together. It's time to rise

4.) Cover the bowl with a towel, thick nylon, or film. Leave to rise in a warm place for 120minutes, approximately 2hrs

5.) After 2hrs, get a deep pan for frying on fire, heat up the oil. Then mix the batter all together again, and scoop into the hot oil gradually using your hand, to give it a perfect shape

6.) Fry for 5minutes, fry till the batter is golden brown, then flip to the other side, fry till brown. Repeat this procedure until you are done frying

7.) Your puff puff is ready, served with chilled drinks.

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October 20, 2021

How To Make Waakye - Ghanaian Recipe

Waakye is an amazing type of rice recipe. It is a Ghanaian food popularly known in Nigeria, and mostly eaten by the Hausas. It is easy to make, and simple to prepare. Waakye can be prepared, and consume at home, shop, and eatery. Most especially, waakye is available in the street food vendors.

Waakye is such an amazing, and surprising recipe to me. I could remember the first time I came in touch with waakye. I was in secondary school then, to be precise.... I was in Jss 2. It was a new school to attend. The name of the recipe itself sounds like "1k" to me. So a friend of mine said to me...... Her name is Ngozi.

Ngozi: Itunu, let's go buy waakye

Itunu: I was like 1k, how would we buy 1k. Do people sell money.

It sounded very strange to me.

So we got there, and to my surprise I saw the delicious looking waakye rice. It was reddish in colour, served with spaghetti, and fried plantain. We bought it, and got back to the school. I tasted it and found out that it taste so great. The ingredients gave it this kind of different taste, and odour. Worst part of it is that I never knew how to spell waakye, not until I became a food blogger. Had "1k" spelt in my head.

Waakye is as simple as ABC. This recipe doesn't require much ingredients. It also doesn't spend much time. It is prepared like white rice, but other necessary ingredients are put to it. This recipe is mostly paired with spaghetti, fried ripe plantain, and egg.

Here is how to make waakye, and ingredient used in making it.

INGREDIENTS

1.) 2 cups brown rice

2.) 1 cup black eyed peas/beans

3.) 3 handful red sorghum leaves

4.) Salt to taste

5.) 4 cups water

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Rinse sorghum leaves into a pot, add maximum amount of water that is able to prepare the beans and rice till they become soft, and done. There is no removal of water, unlike when you preparing white rice.

So you have to consider washing the rice as many times, with salt in order to remove the starch.

2.) Immediately water is boiled, rinse the peas into the water, cook for 15minutes. After 15minutes, rinse the rice into the pot. Then cover pot to cook rice all together for 10minutes. Add salt to taste.

3.) Rice is ready. Pair with anything of your choice, stew, vegetables, stock.

In another episode, I would be talking on how to prepare waakye stew with ata gbigbe, and other ingredients. Watch out.

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October 16, 2021

Coconut Rice Recipe - How To Make Coconut Rice

What a beautiful recipe to talk about. Coconut rice is the best rice recipe with a natural flavored taste. It is consumed all around in Nigeria. All tribes are familiar with this recipe. Coconut rice is simple to cook, but takes time and patience. It is not prepared straight forward, but requires some procedure which takes energy.

Coconut rice recipe is a delicious meal cooked with coconut fruit. The milk extracted from the coconut is what is being used to prepare the rice. Other ingredients such as vegetables are welcome. Coconut rice has a great look, depending on the kind of method you prepare it. But as for me, I prefer having a light or whitish look, and not letting other ingredients overtaste the rice. So as for me...... I prefer using sliced bell pepper, other than tin tomatoe, or blended pepper.

In order to have a very delicious, tasty, yummy, aromatic coconut rice, it depends on how many coconut fruit to use, to the measured rice you want to prepare. Please take note: when cooking coconut rice recipe, avoid adding ginger, garlic, or locust beans. I believe some of us loves any of these ingredients but to be sincere. It isn't perfect for the taste it would give.

I would be explaining about the ingredients used to prepare, and procedure to take in order to get a good prepared result.

How To Make Coconut Rice

INGREDIENTS

1.) 4 cups Rice

2.) 2 Big fully ripe coconut

3.) 1 Large onions

4.) Vegetables; red bell pepper, carrot, green peas, spring onions

5.) 2 Maggi cube

6.) 1 tsp salt to taste

7.) 1/2 cup groundnut oil

8.) Diced kidney

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Break the coconut shell to remove the coconut itself. Cut into smaller pieces in order to be able to blend or hold it firmly when blending, or grating. If blending, add a little water to make it easier for the blender to work. After this, get the grated coconut into a bowl, add in warm water. Use hands to mix thoroughly by extracting the milk/juice from it. Seize water into another clean bowl.

2.) You can repeat the same procedure to the coconut cheese to make sure all milky content is extracted. That milky juice is what will be needed to cook the rice.

3.) Pour the milky juice inside a pot, add in groundnut oil, salt, Maggi. Place on cooker, and make sure it get boiled. After being boiled, wash and rinse rinse rice to it. Let it cook enough, till soft. This takes 10 minutes.

4.) Alongside cooking the rice, fry vegetables in another pot. Put Groundnut oil in a pot on fire, add in sliced onions, wait to fry for some seconds. Add other vegetables, and season with little salt. Fry till done. As soon as it is 10minutes, apply the fried ingredients to the coconut rice. Mix together well, and let it team for 1minute. Giving the vegetables a crunchy taste, taste better.

5.) Coconut rice is ready, you can serve with fried plantain, chicken, and chilled juice.

Method simple and easy. Hope you loved this recipe, would be talking about Jollof Coconut Rice Recipe some other time.

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October 13, 2021

Palm Oil Rice Recipe

Palm oil rice is an easy made recipe. It is delicious, and has a nice aroma. Palm oil rice can also be called Native Nigeria Jollof rice. This is popularly eaten by both Yoruba and Igbo tribe. I'm not really sure of the Hausas. Palm oil rice is a good food prepared with palm oil, and other ingredients.

This recipe requires any ingredients, pertaining to choice. There is no rules of ingredients guiding it. You make palm oil rice to your taste, but note, it should be nutritious, and nourishable.

Palm oil rice recipe is one of the delicious types of rice recipe I posted on my blog, and would be giving a full explanation on how to make this recipe. Remember, any ingredients used to make rice is welcome, but consider measurements. Know how you gauge the measurement, in order to avoid it from getting spoilt easily. For example, if you would be adding onion and garlic, you must try to understand that the both must not be too much, otherwise the meal would not last for long before it begin to ferment.

How To Make Palm Oil Rice

INGREDIENTS

1.) 4 cups rice

2.) Tin Tomato

3.) Blended Pepper with onions

4.) Pomo

5.) Shrimps

6.) 1/2 Grinded Crayfish

7.) 1 ginger

8.) 1/2 cup Palm oil

9.) Salt to taste

10.) Maggi

11.) A handful of curry leaf

INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Place a rinse pot on a fire cooker. Let the water get dried, pour the palm oil into the hot pot to heat to a certain time, for about 2minutes. After 2minutes, add sliced onions to the oil, tin Tomatoe, and blended Pepper. Seasoning with salt and Maggi. At this point, you add the Pomo. Cut the Pomo into any size of your choice. Rinse into the pot, why I choose to it way this is way is because, I want the Pomo to be seasoned enough by the time I am done cooking the rice.

2.) Add water to it if necessary. Cover, and cook for 5minutes. After 5minutes, add enough water to cook the rice till it done. You can add in any other stock. You then grate the ginger into the water, grinded crayfish. Let the water boil. Rinse Rice into the boiled water. Cook rice for 10minutes. Till done.

3.) When rice is not fully done, like 7minutes. Add the curry leaves to it. Cover the pot, curry leaves cooks along till the rice is done. Palm oil rice is done, ready to serve and eat. You can pair with fried plantain.

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October 12, 2021

6 Delicious Types Of Rice Recipe

Rice is the most popular food in the whole world. It is eaten in all corners of the earth, and here in Nigeria...... It is an everyday food to consume. Both at home, parties, restaurants, eateries, ceremonies, meetings, churches, shops, and all other places to mention. Rice rules the world.

Rice happens to be a cereal which has different species. It is good to the body, easy to cook, and able to consume. There are different types of rice such as brown rice, white rice, long rice, small rice e.t.c as much as we can count. Rice contains alot of starch which is quite not good to the body, so also does rice contains magnesium, manganese, selenium, vitamin B6, and vitamin B1.

I love rice so much.... It's the food I can think of when I want to cook something funny, delicious, tasty, yummy, and expensive. It gives me life, and excitement. Most especially white rice. White rice is the best type of cooked rice I cherish, with fried stew seasoning with locust beans, and shawa fish. I love this recipe.

There are different methods of cooking rice. Different method of cooking different types of delicious rice recipe. I would be talking about six (6) delicious types of rice recipe. You can as well try them at home in your convenience.

6 Delicious Types Of Rice Recipe

1.) Jollof Rice

Jollof rice is a tasty delicacy to every taste buds. It is prepared with tin tomatoes, pepper, tatashe, Shombo,onions, grinded together, with the help of bay leaves to give it this kind of party rice flavor. Jollof Rice is a popular food in Nigeria, and served in all variety places. It can be paired with plantain, spaghetti, meat e.t.c.

Ghana is also a fan of Jollof rice, has they also have the way they make their own Jollof recipe. I would be talking about Ghana recipes in my blog. I love them so much. I would also like to live there, learn how to make their food, and also do business there. They are truly good people.

2.) White Rice

White rice is a natural process of making rice without any additional ingredients, or spices. No ingredients attached to this recipe expect from salt to taste alone. It is seasoning with salt, and left to boil till it get soft. It is taken with any kind of stew like tomatoe stew, atagbigbe stew, Ofada Rice stew, e.t.c. Or with any kind of soup such as Egusi Soup, Vegetable soup, Omi Obe, and the rest.

White rice can be paired with creamy vegetable salad, fried Plantain, assorted meat, diced carrots, e.t.c. Rice can be taken as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Anytime, anyday, and anyplace.

3.) Palm Oil Rice

Palm oil rice is a spectacular concoction rice recipe. It is spicy, seasoned, flavored, and garnished with different kind of stocks, like fish, meat, Pomo, shrimps, chicken, crayfish e.t.c. Any ingredient is welcomed. Palm oil rice is a recipe made with palm oil, and all ingredients put at once to cook. It doesn't take any other procedure.

4.) Fried Rice

Fried Rice is a special recipe to me, and am so sure, it is the best to some of my fans out there reading this. Fried rice is a delicious meal with great taste, aroma and look. It is prepared with rice, Curry powder, thyme, chicken stock, and garnished with vegetables. Vegetables like carrot, sweet corn, green bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, green peas, spring onions e.t.c. It is loved by most people. It can also be paired with plantain, chicken, and salad.

Fried rice is a delicious recipe, easy and simple to make. It is served in parties, and home. Popular in eatery. It is very affordable to cook.

5.) Coconut Rice

Coconut rice is a very nutritious type of rice recipe. It is healthy to the body, and have a very merry taste to the bud, and nice aroma. Coconut rice is made with coconut fruit. Blended or grated to extract the water. It is then you use the coconut milk to prepare the rice. It can be prepared with diced bell pepper, and vegetables. As you want it.

It can also be paired with chicken, meat, fish, plantain, creamy salad, fried potatoes e.t.c. Stepping it down with orange chilled juice or wine. What do you think?

6.) Waakye

Waakye is a delicious Ghanaian food. It is a very simple recipe to cook. It is prepared with brown rice cooked with dried red sorghum leaves, black eyed peas. It is nutritious, and healthy to the body. Waakye is commonly served with spaghetti, plantain, and fried pepper stew with egg. It is a delicious recipe.

Go ahead and try one of your favorite among this recipes. Then give me a feedback, or if you are good in making any of them, write on how it taste in the comment section.

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