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 Palm nut soup

Palm nut soup
Palm nut soup

 Palm nut soup is a Ghanaian dish that can be served with so many foods. It has a rich base of palm nuts combined with tomatoes and various vegetables that makes it very nutritious.

Preparation

Ingredients

– 1 kilogramme of palm nut

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– Half kilogramme of beef

-One kilogramme of goat meat

-Three large salmon

-One full tuna

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– A handful of turkey berries

-Two large onions

-4 large tomatoes

-3 large garden eggs

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– One tin of mackerel

-Ten large peppers

– One large ginger

 -2 cloves of garlic

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– Four fingers of okro

– Salt to taste

Instructions

-Wash, cook palm nut, turkey ber­ries, and pepper and add salt to it.

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-Grind palm nut, turkey berries and pepper with mortar and pestle or mini food processor.

-Wash goat meat, beef, Tuna, salt and put on fire.

– Blend onion, garlic, ginger and tomatoes and pour on the goat meat.

– Add smoked tuna and salmon and okro to the soup.

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-Use a spoon or ladle to skim off the surface oil.

-Garnish the soup with the okro or garden eggs as desired.

-Serve with fufu, banku or Omo tuo.

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Nutrition

Benefits of eating vegetables

Eating raw vegetables are important to the body
Eating raw vegetables are important to the body

 Eating vegetables offers numerous health benefits. It includes

– Treatment and prevention of cancer

-Boost immune system

-Promotes healthy skin

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-It controls weight manage­ment

-Vegetables lowers risk for chronic disease

-Vegetables are good for the heart

-Cholesterol controller

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-Regulates high blood pres­sure

-Prevents hair fall

-Prevents cardiac issues

Source: healthnews.com

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 Mother’s day special meal

Assorted fried rice
Assorted fried rice

 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.

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Ingredients

-2 cups of rice

-6 litres of oil

-10 large shrimps

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-3 slices of spring onions

-2 large carrots

-5 large eggs

-1 large green pepper

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-1 bottle of soya sauce

-1 pound of chicken

-1 pound of gizzard

– A pack of sausage

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– Salt to taste

-2 tablespoonful’s of grinded ginger

-2 tablespoonful’s of grinded garlic

-Seasoning

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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

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-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

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-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

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-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

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-Cucumber

-Cabbage

-Carrot

-Lettuce

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-Celery

-Spinach

-Kale

-Onion

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-Garlic

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