Nutrition
Meat Pie
Meat pie
Meat Pie is a West African pastry that is stuffed with meat. It can serve as an appetizer at restaurants, parties, etc.
Ingredients
Crust
2 cups of flour
1 cup of butter
1 tablespoonful of salt
1/2 cup of water
2 eggs for coating
Meat Pie filling
1 pound of meat (You can substitute it with ground beef, chicken breast or tuna)
1large onion
1 tablespoonful of Adobo seasoning or seasoned salt
1.5 tablespoonful of olive oil
Instructions
Crust
Combine the crust ingredients:
flour, butter, salt and water in a large bowl
Mix and knead it until a dough forms
Set aside in a freezer for 10 minutes
Filling
Pour oil in a frying pan and put it on medium heat
Add the meat and seasoning and let it cook for 10 minutes
Add onions to meat and let it cook for another five minutes
After the filling is done, roll the dough with a rolling pin.
Cut a piece of the dough into a square or circle, you can choose to make it large or small.
Add some meat to each pie and fold in half and seal it. Use a fork to close the edges so the meat does not fall out.
7.Coat pies with egg wash so you get that golden brown look.
Nutrition
Benefits of eating vegetables
Eating vegetables offers numerous health benefits. It includes
– Treatment and prevention of cancer
-Boost immune system
-Promotes healthy skin
-It controls weight management
-Vegetables lowers risk for chronic disease
-Vegetables are good for the heart
-Cholesterol controller
-Regulates high blood pressure
-Prevents hair fall
-Prevents cardiac issues
Source: healthnews.com
Nutrition
Mother’s day special meal
Mother’s day is tomorrow and indeed our able mothers’ need to be pampered and celebrated with some delicious meals.
Interestingly, these delicious meals can be either local or continental, with a side fruits or snack.
This week, The Spectator will guide readers in the preparation of assorted fried rice for all mothers.
Ingredients
-2 cups of rice
-6 litres of oil
-10 large shrimps
-3 slices of spring onions
-2 large carrots
-5 large eggs
-1 large green pepper
-1 bottle of soya sauce
-1 pound of chicken
-1 pound of gizzard
– A pack of sausage
– Salt to taste
-2 tablespoonful’s of grinded ginger
-2 tablespoonful’s of grinded garlic
-Seasoning
Preparation
-Wash chicken, gizzard and shrimps and put it on fire
-Add grinded ginger, garlic and salt to it (leave it to cook for some time)
-Put oil on fire to fry chicken, gizzard and shrimps
-Cut spring onions, green pepper and carrots into a clean bowl.
– Put rice on the fire and allow it to cook
-When rice is ready, spread it on a clean bowl to dry so that it will be crispy
-Put two tablespoonful of oil in a pan
-Add two eggs to the oil and stir
-Cut sausages in sizeable shapes and add it to oil and eggs.
-Add vegetables to the eggs and stir continuously
-Add shrimps and gizzard to it
-Add rice and soya sauce to the mixture and stir continuously
-Allow everything in the bowl to mix well and serve
Some vegetables that can be eating raw
-Broccoli
-Cucumber
-Cabbage
-Carrot
-Lettuce
-Celery
-Spinach
-Kale
-Onion
-Garlic
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