Topic: NAIJA BOARD 2024/2025 CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR contest 2nd Edition! |Donor:🔥BC.Game - page 2. (Read 1537 times)

OP between my white rice and my jollof rice, i want to use the jollof rice for my presentation. Please take note

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Towards today evening I decide to make sharp quick Nigeria JOLLOF RICE specifically to present here on the forum, even though it wasn't the 25th Rice it doesn't change anything because that day was a very busy day for me, putting things together and also working on my contest.
However here is my meal that I took some of my time to make to present on the forum.. Especially if it was easy to waybill to theymos, pooya87,El duderino_, JayJuanGee, klarki, 1miau, LFC_Bitcoin, hilariousandco. I could have sent it across to them to also enjoy my delicious meal.

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That is by the way.. Fast forward to the whole learning process.

Ingredients:

I am more selective when it comes to ingredients because my body system do reacts to some spices, therefore I just picked those that I think will be cool with my body system without being so much uncomfortable after consuming my meal.

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Here we go:
Step 1

• Five sachet of tomato paste
• Golden penny Groundnut oil
• Butter
• seasoned curry
• Onions (already sliced)
• Carrot (already sliced)
• Grinded Crayfish
• Chicken
• 5 cups of rice
• Star Maggie
• Fresh pepper
• Chicken water
• Vegetable (green pepper, carrot, green peas, cabbage)
• Salt

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Procedures:

Step 2 : At first you season the chicken with salt , Maggi, pepper , onion, curry to make the chicken not to be white. You can add blended ginger and garlic to make it have a good taste if you want to do so, though it's necessary to able you have the look out of the meal. When steaming is done reserve little of the chicken water, then you fry the chicken or (fish) and it's ready to eat.

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Step 3: Wash the rice in cold water, put the rice inside your pot, add little water and parboil it. Allow it to boil for few minutes, depending on the types of rice you are using. Mostly I love using mango rice as its more yummy and tasty. Then filter out the water and wash the rice with clean water then keep it in a dry clean dish.

Keep the pot on fire and add a little quantity of water because I don't want to fry it since I do not like frying most of our food and I easily reacts to fried food, pour groundnut oil (100ml) inside then pot depending on the quantity of your rice, add tomatoes, salt into the pot then allow it to boil. When the mixture is boiling and getting dry add onions, butter, chicken water, then add water for cooking the food.
After adding water, also add pepper, Maggi, curry. Cover the pot for some minute, when the water is almost getting dry add crayfish and allow the water to dry up completely then the rice is ready.

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Step 4: Cut the vegetables, add butter on a frying pan (2-3 table spoon depending on the quantity of your rice), allow the butter to melt and add the cut veggies into the pan and allow it to steam for about 2-5 minutes (you turn it a bit). Then pour it inside the rice and mix them together, put the fried chicken in the pot of rice as shown on the image below..

Food is ready to serve

Then here comes the end of our class on learning how to cook Nigerian Jollof Rice.

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Please do not mind my pictures I don't want it to  occupy much space, therefore I reduces their sizes.















I call on people of forum to come join me eat my food, it's not easy to spend time making food. I know if you understand the stress involves making foods then you will also learn to appreciates your wives at home.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Res

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MY DISH PREPARED (ogbono soup)

 So far I have seen no famous Nigerian soup dishes so I decided to get right and make one of my favorites and also exquisite famous Nigerian dish known as the ogbono soup made with the seeds of African bush mango

Items and ingredients

Ingredients used for the ogbono soup:
Cow meat,snail,stock fish, dry fish, Ogbono periwinkle,Crayfish, dry lobster,Dried Uziza leaf, Maggi, salt, fresh pepper, palm oil, onion, palm oil










As a mother seeing how my husband and children are all up and consuming am certain if some of the foreign folks that Haven't tried this have a test of it they would definitely love and want to try it out more often

I would recommend for philipma1957 to actually try cooking this dish since I read you like cooking a lot also 1miau you can also try  this you would love it, icopress you are not left out too 😁😁

Happy holidays everyone.

I decided to cook stew rice and beans garnished with fried plantain, salad, and different types of fruit. But before this contest is over, I will still add the dreaded Nigerian jollof. It is now I am seeing that we need to add our forum username and date when taking photos of our food. So that made me not include my forum username and date when I was taking photos of my food, but I will do that when I am adding the dreaded Nigerian jollof rice to this post.
Below are some of the processes I passed through to get my food cooked.












Below is my food

He was actually talking about their local dish called Tahdig .. I was pretty much interested in it so the post was about the description on how I can go about  it  but I didn't  if  the image attached was cooked by him   and that was what I was trying to confirm in my last post( so as to get the recipe for the colour blend), it seems he's yet to notice the comments for now but I can still work with the guide he dropped as well just to practice mine ..
Btw nice dish you got there Frankolala

I decided to prepare our Nigeria local jellof rice today being Christmas and I used every local tools that are available which are Mortar and pestle, fire wood and wooden knife.
This are pictures of the steps of preparing the rice and the final result.
I wish you all a merry Christmas 🎄.

Wow...I applaud you for your effort and interest to participate in this contest on cooking our local jollof rice, and everything you stated above is true. Different cook, and their different timing. It shows that you are a good chef because some Nigerians don't know how to cook despite watching it on YouTube. How was the taste, did you like it.

Thanks for the head up.

Read the OP rules, nobody cares about theories, get yourself in the kitchen and prepare some real dishes and take pictures showing your username on a piece of paper and upload it. I will quote it for visibility.


Those images should also display your username, I guess you forgot that part of the rules.

All this explanation would have been clearer if you included 1 or 2 images attached to it like others did, to make it look tasty and a little bit spicy. But thought the explanation would go along way for those who would need explanation or learn how to prepare such rice.

This is a very nice development coming to naija board, it will promote love and participation in the board... Unfortunately, I don't have any merit to participate, hoping to participate in the next Christmas contest. Keep up the good work ❤️.

    MY XMAS JOLLOF RICE

Ingredients to cook Nigeria jollof rice.
Fresh tomatoes
Fresh pepper
Onions
Groundnut oil
Ginger
Garlic
Thyme
Curry
Maggi cube
Steamed meat water.
Salt
Tomatoes paste

STEPS TO COOK DELICIOUS AND YUMMY JOLLOF RICE.

- Parboil your rice and wash it thoroughly, three times precisely.

- You blend your pepper, tomatoes, onion, garlic and ginger together.

- Put your pot on the fire and heat it for 30 seconds, and pour your vegetable oil into the pot, allow it to heat for at least three minutes.

- Put your slice onions into the heated Groundnut oil and stir very well, add the blended ingredients. Stir it very well and allow leave it for 15 minutes and then add your tomatoes paste, all your spices and seasons.

- Pour in your steamed meat water, add little quantity of water. Put in your parboiled rice into the pot, and put the same water level to that of the rice and allow it to cook for 10-15 minutes. Food is ready.








       

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INGREDIENTS AND MY FRIED RICE COOKING PROCEDURE.
6 cups of rice
Salt
Maggi
Curry powder
Thyme powder
Fresh pepper
Spring onions
Red kidney beans
Garlic and Ginger
Green Beans
Grean peas
Chicken
Vegetable oil
Green pepper
Water
Onions
Carrot
Stock water..

Wash your chicken  thoroughly. After washing your chicken, Add your chicken into a clean pot and add your seasonings like maggi, curry, thyme, garlic, Ginger and salt, add all to your taste. Next you place your pot where your chicken is on the fire and allow to simmer a bit under low heat, don’t add water to it, let it simmer for about 20mins the reason for this is to allow your chicken absorb the ingredients and flavors embedded in it already. Then after 10-20mins, you can add in water because we need stock water when cooking our fried rice. Let the chicken cook for about 10-20 mins your preference though,then you separate your chicken from the stock water. Sock the kidney beans before cooking the rice. After that, you wash your frying pan put the frying pan on the fire for the wash to dry off then you add in your vegetable oil and heat it up then add in your chicken and fry it the way you want it to be. some people would love to add in onions to give it this extra flavor before going in with the Chicken, I also did that too. So once your chicken is fried to your satisfaction, set aside.

Now to the preparation of our fried rice

All your veggies, wash thoroughly and dice them into moderate or perfect sizes,I mean your carrot, spring onions, green pepper, green peas then set it aside.
Parboil your rice, once parboiled put it into a sieve for the wash to dry off. Then you wash the rice thoroughly. Then your stock water drill in through a sieve so that the rudiments from the chicken is drilled out, some people might prefer to use their stock water with the rudiments in it. So once you’ve done that put the stock water into your pot that you will be using for cooking on the fire then add in your rice that has been parboiled into the stock water. After that add in your salt, seasoning cubes (maggi), then add in your curry and fried rice species then some ginger and garlic. If the stock water wouldn't be enough to cook the rice you can add little water that can cook the rice and add your kidney beans so it cooks also and become soft. Then you let it cook. In a frying pan,add in vegetable oil, add in some diced onions,let it fry a bit then go in with your veggies bit by bit then you add in your curry, salt and seasoning cubes. It should fry and cook a bit,
Then once your rice is all cooked and done you add in all your stir fried veggies then your mix with a turner from top to bottom till it’s goes all round. Then you let it heat up a little bit more on low heat.
So once that’s all done you bring the pot down and off the fire and dish it. merry Christmas to all you.

It doesn't look that hard actually, just that to get it done perfectly is not easy ... I will give it a try  using this guide plus the video aswell, but  I still don't know what will give it colour or that just the bottom that  has  the colour .
Hence did you cooked that yourself, it looks good  I will try the potato Tahdig  aswell since I can't get saffron over here.. just that I still don't know what will give it the whole colour like what you posted because all videos I've seen has two layers (one -white) but what you  posted is blend

@mia Chloe when is it officially commencing? And where because I doubt it would be organized if everything is done here since many would be quite excited to discuss about the foods.

I think aethestics would be a fore runner and the judges discretion in relation to their knowledge about the dish

it would loss The human touch and emotions generated from eating the food. My personal opinion.

Good to see this from naija local board, I believe many naija local board users are going to participate in this Africa food courtesy because this is what many men and women know how to do best in the school and at home too, thanks mia Chloe for this initiative you brought to naija local board, Merry Christmas and happy holiday.

There are so many basis like the presentation of the actual dish prepared, I mean if you are cook you will certainly know a good dish facially of you see one. The recipe for preparation, method of preparation and also the finish products would go a long way and most importantly I think package and presentation gives an extra edge although Mia Chloe can still chip in some ways to qualifying the dishes that would be submitted.

Wonderful idea and indeed Nigerian dishes is worth every hype it's getting on the internet space. This period is already a season for enough eating and drinking so am gamed, let me see if my famous native Banga soup will meet the eyes of the judges or food critic  here.

Simple question @Mia Chloe please what's the criteria or areas in which the dishes would be judged to actually get or know a winner, I mean since it's food, I thought it's normally judged on the taste of it but seeing that can't be possible would be interesting to know how?

This is a good initiative that is not only fun. It will be educating and help many to learn new delicacies during submission. Xmas is less than a day to go and the love is already in the air.
My cooking skills has to be tested this time.