3/19/2024 0 Comments Eggplant okra stewIn a pot, melt a generous amount of butter or ghee. Dine Africa with me.Okra & Eggplant Stew for #MeatlessMonday. Join me as we celebrate food, love and life. I shall also share some easy kitchen tips for the ‘lazy’ cooks like me. Please join me as I celebrate the arts through African (Nigerian) cooking and through my mother’s recipes (some of which I tweaked to fit my choices). Cooking has inspired my project - “Dine Africa”, which is set to show Africa’s culinary culture and exotic cuisines alongside its wide variety of ethnic nationalities, cultures and enormous land mass. I now see cooking as an art, and I consider it my own contribution to the arts in general. From then, I became more interested in cooking and started developing recipes. And the necessity to cook for others, and myself, pushed me to look for ways to rustle up simple but delicious meals. While my father was alive (may GOD rest his soul), he used to have me make him fresh, oil-less okra soup and boy did I hate it! As the years went by, I started falling in love with art. In fact, my laziness when it came to cooking could be said to have superseded epic proportions! At a point all I could cook was ‘jollof supergetti’ for my brothers. As a growing girl, I disliked ‘going into the kitchen’ because I was so ‘lazy’. I am quirky, and what you would call a nerd. I shall also share some easy kitchen tips for the lazy cooks like me. Please join me as I celebrate the arts through African (Nigerian) cooking and through my mother's recipes (some of which I tweaked to fit my choices). While my father was alive (may GOD rest his soul) he used to have me make him fresh oiless okra soup and LORD did I hate it! As the years went by I started falling inlove with art and cooking which is my own contribution to the arts has inspired my project "Dine Africa" which is set to show along side Africa's wide variety of ethnic nationalities, cultures and enormous landmass is, if course, its culinary culture and exotic cuisines At some point all I could cook was "jollof supergetti" for my brothers. As a growing girl, I disliked going in the kitchen because I was so "Lazy"infact, my laziness when it came to cooking could superceded epic proportions. Hi.My name is Nma I am quirky and what you would call a nerd. I should make him a deconstructed version with the okra, egg plants and potatoes □Īs for this recipe, meatless Mondays wouldn’t be the only day you make some after you try it Did you know that Africa is not a country? Ehennn, it’s a continent a very large one that comprises of 54 countries…just incase you didn’t know □īack to Maafe…it’s funny how I could only have a little while my ajebutter1 ate an entire bowl(she found it quite interesting, but couldn’t stop licking the bowl) and her brother couldn’t have any due to nut allergies. What is Maafe? It’s pretty much peanut butter stew common amongst West Africans and each country have their own method on how to cook theirs. I hope to try it with some meat some time soon. I have tried the Nigerian style, but I really prefer this style. After studying the three recipes she gave, I decided to go with the Senegalese Maafe , but with my own twist to it. Freds who also blogs about African cuisines. Oh was I a little nervous but I knew exactly who to run to for a little help. She added a lot of meats and dry fish to it, but I never really asked her how she prepared hers’ until I discussed with Priya about making some. This soup, although a vegetarian style is very rich in flavor and was so beautiful after the cooking process.īefore I made this dish I had always tasted groundnut soup from my neighbor who always cooked it for her Ghanaian husband. Sometimes I enjoy making Nigerian soups with a vegetarian twist and sometimes with mushrooms, but I never thought about making groundnut soup this way. Although I have an allergy to peanuts, it’s not that bad with the butter (no idea why □ ). This lead me to be officially in love with the stew. I had never had Maafe until Priya asked if I had a recipe for it.
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