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SUYA

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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

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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

PUFF PUFF

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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