Eukay's Kitchen

Hey lovely followers, let me tell you of my first encounter with Curry Chicken. So I was done with my hair and needed some food, a Jamaican restaurant was the closest to me so I decided to give their curry chicken a try. It had lots of vegetables, had a lovely aroma and tasted really delicious, it was the best meal I had had in a long time. With that, I set out to make my homemade curry chicken. Below is my recipe, I hope you love it as I do. INGREDIENTS/ITEMS USED 2kg of Soft Chicken pieces (Boneless if you like) 4 large Potatoes 4 Carrots 3 bulbs of onions 4 spring onions 2 Tablespoons of Thyme 5 Tablespoons of Curry powder  8 cubes of Bullion cubes  6 mixed peppers  2 Tablespoons of all-purpose seasoning  Salt (optional) 100 ml of Sunflower oil  Pepper and Ginger (According to preference) HOW TO PREPARE Wash chicken pieces and keep aside Scrape, wash and chop carrots into chunks  Peel, wash and chop potatoes into chunks Blend pepper and ginger and ke

Hello readers, today I will be sharing with you all how to make palm oil rice (also known as native rice). What makes this rice mixture different from others is the use of palm oil and the addition of ingredients like crayfish, locust bean (Dawa Dawa) and dried fish.                               You need  Raw rice (in this case 800 grams)  3 pieces of dried fish  1 and a half tablespoons of locust bean  2 scotch bonnets (pepper)  A cup of palm oil  Chicken/Meat/Fish Stock  2 Bulbs of Onion  A handful of Chopped Scent leaves Bullion cubes and salt (optional)  3 Tablespoons of blended crayfish                           How to Prepare  Parboil rice until it starts to bubble. Drain hot water, wash with cold water and set aside. Wash Dried fish thoroughly by scrubbing the back with a hard sponge and water to remove sand.  Remove bones from the dried fish and set aside Chop onions, blend pepper, crayfish, and ginger(optional) and set aside. Use hot water to soft

Hello everyone, it's been a while since I last dropped a recipe here, more than a year, I hope I get pardoned for my very long absence, it was due to circumstances I had no control over. Anyways, I have some juicy posts which I preserved in my long absence. One of them is the very delicious fried rice. This is actually an upgraded version to my previous fried rice recipe, I hope you enjoy the upgraded version as much as I do. WHAT YOU NEED Chicken/Turkey Prawns Mixed Veggies Vegetable oil/Sunflower oil Rice Seasoning (Thyme, curry powder, seasoning cubes, ginger, scotch bonnet, all purpose seasoning, salt) HOW TO PREPARE 1 Wash and par boil 4 cups of rice and set aside. 2 Wash Chicken or Turkey with water, season with the above seasoning to taste and leave to boil adding water after it has produced its own stock. 3 Take the Chicken/Turkey out of the pot after it must have boiled for about 30 minutes to an hour. The boiling time depends on the kind of Chicken

The jacket potato is one easy, and nutritious meal you can make at any time. To think that I just discovered this meal a few months ago is quite funny. All my life, I have always peeled the skin of my potato before cooking, but with Jacket potato, you can enjoy a crispy skin and soft flesh potatoes. What you need Large Potatoes Sunflower/olive/vegetable oil Salt Baking tray   Sides may include Baked beans Cheese Salad  How to make  Wash and put potatoes in the microwave for 20 minutes. Take out potatoes from the microwave and puncture them gently with a knife, this is to allow penetration of salt. Preheat oven for 3-5 minutes on 220C. Rub salt and oil around potatoes and put them on a baking tray. Bake potatoes for 20-25 minutes turning them around occasionally. When all parts are golden brown, bring out potatoes and enjoy with any or all of the above sides. See pictures below.  

Hi readers, as always, I love to try something new, so I set off to make some doughnuts for the weekend and it was so delicious, we all loved it. Below is my recipe. What you need  300 grammes of flour One large egg 2 spoons of butter 3 tablespoon of Sugar 1/4 teaspoon of salt Sunflower/vegetable/olive oil 2 teaspoons of dried yeast 100 ml of milk  How to make doughnut  1. Pour milk into a clean bowl.  2. Add dried yeast and mix thoroughly.  3. Add Sugar, salt, egg and melted butter to the mixture and continue to mix.  4. Add flour and mix with hands until all the ingredients are well incorporated.  5. Cover though with a clean film and leave to rise in a very warm place for 45 minutes to an hour.  6. Bring out the dough afterwards and roll well on a clean surface with the aid of a rolling pin.  7. Use a round tin/container or whatever you are comfortable to use to make round shapes on the rolled dough. See pictures below.  8. Use a small rounded shaped objec

Hi, lovelies. This meal is similar to my last post but has a slight twist to it. It is delicious and highly nutritious too. WHAT YOU NEED 3 cups of rice Minced meat (500 grammes) Mixed peppers (green, yellow, red) One large onion bulb One tomato puree(200 grammes) 4 Seasoning cubes All purpose seasoning Salt to taste 2 Scotch bonnet (fresh pepper) Half cup of Sunflower oil  Ginger to taste Mixed veggies Dried thyme and Curry powder HOW TO PREPARE Parboil some white rice in a pot of water until it begins to bubble, get rid of excess starch by pouring out the water from the parboiled rice (using a sieve) and washing the rice with cold water. Add salt and some water (slightly above the rice) to the empty pot together with the parboiled rice and cook the rice until the water gets dried up. If the rice is too hard, add some more water. When the rice is nearly dried up, add some mixed veggies if desired. Pour half a cup of oil into a pot and leave to preheat o

Hey, lovelies here is a quick, easy and nutritious meal, I call it spaghetti with mince meat sauce, feel free to give yours a different name. What you need Spaghetti (one pack) Mince meat (500 grammes) Mixed peppers (green, yellow, red) One large onion bulb Tomatoes Seasoning cubes Salt Scotch bonnet (fresh pepper) Sunflower oil  Ginger Cheese How to prepare Pour half a cup of oil into a pot and leave to preheat on medium heat for 3 minutes. Chop some tomatoes, dice one onion bulb, grate some ginger and dice one or two fresh peppers. Pour the mixture in number 2 into the pot of hot oil and stir. Add Seasoning cubes, all-purpose seasoning and whatever seasoning desired. Pour mince meat to the mixture and continue to stir until colour turns from pink to brown. Taste for sweetness, salt may be needed or more seasoning, add as required. Add chopped mixed peppers, and take down the pot from the cooker. Finally, boil spaghetti, sprinkle some cheese if desired an

Hello everyone and happy new month. During the week, I made plans to buy pizza for my family but then I thought to myself why not make it yourself? So, I set out to make my yummy pizza. Pizza is from Italian origin, it's made up of a flat round base of dough with toppings of cheese, mixed peppers, meat or fish, pepperoni, tomato stew etc. What you need to make pizza 1. 350 grams of all purpose flour. 2. A teaspoon of sugar. 3. A levelled teaspoon of salt. 4. 2 teaspoons of Yeast. 5. 4 tablespoons of olive oil/ sunflower oil. 6. 100 -120 ml of water. 7. Green and red peppers. 8  A hand full of minced meat. 9. Onions. 10. Pepperoni. 11. Cheese. 12. Margarine. 13. A bowl. 14. Cling film. 15. Oven and oven tray. How to make pizza 1. In a clean bowl pour measured flour, sugar and salt and mix well. 2. Pour 4 tablespoons of oil and continue to mix. 3. Add water slowly and mix well until you get this look. See picture below. 4. Cover with a

Hi dearies, this is a recipe for the very delicious Nigerian suya. Suya is a delicious roasted beef mixed with spices to give it a delicious aroma and flavour. In Nigeria, suya is sold mainly at night and I still remember how lots of people queue waiting for their turn to buy the yummy snack to enjoy a beautiful night. What you need Boneless beef Suya mix/spice One onion bulb 2 seasoning cubes Half cup of sunflower/vegetable/olive oil  Dry pepper BBQ skewers (sticks) Tomatoes (optional)  Cabbage (optional)  How to prepare  Slice beef thinly or ask a butcher for assistance. Wash beef and set aside. Add any of the oil above and mix with seasoning cubes. Use a soft brush to apply the oil mixture to the meat. Insert the meat into the stickss. Pour some suya mix into a plate and thoroughly apply it to the suya, covering all sides. Cover the meat mixture with a cling film and leave to marinate for 30 minutes in the fridge.  Preheat oven for 5 minute. Place s

Coconut rice is a delicious kind of rice made by cooking parboiled rice with coconut milk. Even though this food is very nutritious and delicious too, a lot of people find it stressful to make. This is because of the process of buying a good coconut, breaking the coconut, taking it out of its shell, grating it and then extracting its milk with the use of warm water a sieve and a bowl. The good news is, all that stress has been taken care of by modernisation. Simply go to the market and get a tin of coconut milk and be saved from some stress. However, this recipe covers both ways of getting coconut milk for coconut rice. What you need 1)   One Medium sized coconut or 2Tins of coconut milk. 2)   4 cups of rice 3)   One kg of Chicken 4)   6 seasoning cubes 5)   2 scotch bonnets 6)   A teaspoon of Tyme 7)   A teaspoon of curry powder 8)   One onion bulb 9)   Ginger (optional) 10)  A Tablespoon of Crayfish 11)  Water 12)  Salt 13)  Sunflower oil How to Make Coconut Ri

Any Nigerian party without puff puff is probably a get-together 😃. Funny enough, this is an obvious fact about most Nigerian parties, in fact, the absence of puff puff as part of the small chops can ruin a wonderful event with unhappy faces. It is everyone's delight, both old and young. However, we can simply say, puff puff is a delicious deep fried African snack made of flour, yeast, sugar, nutmeg, salt etc, it's golden brown on the outside and whitish inside when deep fried in hot oil. What you need to make puff puff 250 grammes of self-raising flour 2 teaspoons of active yeast Half teaspoon of nutmeg (optional) 5 tablespoons of granulated sugar Half a cup of luke warm water Sunflower oil/vegetable oil/olive oil 3 pinch of salt How to make puff puff In a clean bowl, pour all measured dry ingredients (flour, salt, yeast, nutmeg, sugar) and mix thoroughly. Pour half a cup of lukewarm water to the mixture and mix with a mixer or with a clean

Looking at the beautiful sky while I enjoyed the lovely weather, memories of my childhood kept flocking through my mind, amongst other things, I remembered how I used to love visiting Mama Dana just to have a taste of her yummy chin chins, even though my regular visits were quite disturbing, she seemed to have enjoyed my fairy tales while I watched her mix, knead, roll and fry her chin chins. Mama Dana was a distant neighbour who lived few blocks from mine, she was a caterer and our family friend too. While I watched every stage of her chin chin, I always asked questions like '' Aunty, how did you learn this?'' ''Is it difficult?'' ''Will I be able to make it when I grow up?'' Probably tired of my numerous questions she said to me on a fateful day, ''Young girl, there is no mountain greater than your mind.''  Inspired by Mama Dana's reply many years ago, I set out to make my own chin chins today. Chin chin is a

It's another weekend guys and people who know me well can guess that the weekends were made for me. On these days, I try to do something new or different. Today, I decided to make Groundnut (Peanut) stew. Even though this is not totally new to me, it's not an everytime kind of thing. According to the oxford dictionary, ''Groundnut is a north American plant of the pea family, which yields a sweet edible tuber.'' It can be eaten raw, boiled or roasted, it can also be used as a thickener for soup or stew or used as a paste for garden eggs and kola nuts. In Nigeria, people from different parts of the country use groundnut differently, for example, some people are new to the fact that aside boiling and roasting, groundnut can also be used to make stew or soup. In northern Cross-River Nigeria, there is hardly any home without groundnut. GROUNDNUT STEW DECORATED WITH SLICED SCOTCH BONNET  To make groundnut stew/sauce, you will need; Two cups of

Finally, it's weekend guys!!! Having had a stressful week, I know we all look forward to the weekend to unwind a little and get fuelled for next week's activities. But how do you intend to enjoy the weekend? Take strolls, have a party, or sleep through it? All these and more are wonderful, but how about trying something new, easy and delicious? something like homemade ICE CREAM. The good thing about homemade, meals or desserts is that you add or subtract whatever you wish. For example, my ice creams have no sugar or eggs in them, in fact, they are made from only three ingredients each. Below is the very easy process. WHAT IS NEEDED    Hand mixer (Electric or non-electric) A bowl 300 ml whipping cream 200 grams Sweetened condensed milk  Vanilla flavour ( This is for vanilla ice cream) 7 large Strawberries ( This is for strawberry ice cream) 150 grams of milk chocolate (This is for chocolate ice cream) 3 Airtight plastics Blender A spoon HOW TO MAKE

Ogbono soup is no doubt one of Africa's finest delicacies, it is made from ground ogbono seeds and used as a thickener. One of the most fascinating things about this delicious soup is its slimy nature which enables the ogbono soup to go up, down and around a small ball of hand moulded eba/fufu  (swallow) ready to be swallowed. One can not also ignore how the use of assorted meats/fish and a selected vegetable of choice has made this meal a very special one. WHAT YOU NEED One hand full of ground ogbono Half a cup of palm oil Two tablespoons of crayfish or more Assorted meats  Dry fish/stock fish/frozen fish/fresh fish one scotch bonnet Salt to taste Seasoning cubes to taste Half onion bulb (optional) Vegetable of choice ( spinach, hot leafs, bitter leafs or pumpkin leafs)  HOW TO PREPARE Wash assorted meat and any fish of choice and put in a pot Add seasoning cubes, sliced onions, pepper and salt to the mixture above While meat/fish is boiling, pour the right quan

Variety they say is the spice of life and indeed it is. Imagine a nice plate of white rice with a lovely sauce different from the usual tomato stew, wouldn't that wow minds and water mouths? One of Africa's finest is the ofada sauce usually eaten with ofada rice. The name ofada is from Ogun state in Western Nigeria where the brownish rice was first cultivated by a soldier who allegedly smuggled it from Asia. The ofada rice and ofada sauce are usually a must have in many parties in Western Nigeria. However, we can not all wait for a party to enjoy this delectable sauce; so why not bring the party home? This recipe is for ofada sauce. The ofada rice is quite difficult to get outside Nigeria so other rice species can be used as a substitute. WHAT IS REQUIRED? Green peppers (9) Scotch bonnet (3) Tablespoons of crayfish (2) A handful of da wa da wa (locust bean) Seasoning cubes (to taste) Salt  (to taste) Dried fish or smoked fish Shaki (cow tripe) Pomo (cow hide) Pa

SAMPLE OF FRESH OKRO VEGETABLE ''Choose one and let us go please, I am tired'' I told my mum who would not simply pick any plate of okra portion at the Tinubu market in Lagos. We had walked 45 minutes turning round and round a very small market, I still couldn't understand why mum wouldn't just pick some portions and pay for them so we could go home and have our lunch, I was just too famished for all this , the scorching sun made it even worse, I stared at my mum and felt like strapping her on my back home, but she did not even blink twice at me. ''So madam, how much is this plate of okra'' mum asked another seller at the market ''I sell a hundred naira for one portion and two hundred naira for 3 portions, buying 3 portions is better'' the seller said and further advised.  ''Ok, I will be back'' mum said and left the sellers shade. At this point, I felt even worse. This was the fifteenth shop we had visited wit