Nutrition
Peanut Cake (Nkate cake)
Nkate Cake
‘Nkate’ cake is a local snack known for its sweet and nutty flavours. This delicious confection combines crushed groundnuts or peanuts with melted sugar. Nkate cake is typically enjoyed as a dessert or as a sweet treat.
Its distinct combination of crunchy peanuts and sweet caramelised sugar creates a delectable texture and flavour that is difficult to resist.
It offers a delightful balance of sweetness and nuttiness.
Ingredients
-Two cups of peanut
– One cup of sugar
Preparation
-Pour the peanut into the blender and crush it up.
-Meanwhile you heat up your pan and pour out sugar in it to make the caramel sauce. Keep stirring so it does not burn.
-The caramel sauce is now ready so we’ll add our crushed peanuts. Keep stirring till it all comes together.
-One has to stir faster so it doesn’t get hard after that it can be cut into any shape of choice.
-Bag them up and they would be ready for school as snack. This is the best recipe for peanut brittle, try it out and let’s see how it comes out. -sweetadjeley.com
Benefits of peanuts
-Supports heart health
– Helps to maintain a healthy weight
-Manages blood sugar levels
-Aids weight loss and promotes healthy skin
-Provides protein to the body
Nutrition
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
– Half kilogramme of beef
-One kilogramme of goat meat
-Three large salmon
-One full tuna
– A handful of turkey berries
-Two large onions
-4 large tomatoes
-3 large garden eggs
– One tin of mackerel
-Ten large peppers
– One large ginger
-2 cloves of garlic
– Four fingers of okro
– Salt to taste
Instructions
-Wash, cook palm nut, turkey berries, and pepper and add salt to it.
-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.
-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.
Nutrition
Cucumber and apple smoothie
Ingredients
-Two medium sized cucumber
-Three apples
-Four tablespoonful of honey
-Crushed ice
-Two cups of yoghurt
-One tablespoonful of blended ginger
– One tablespoonful of celery and mint
Preparation
-Wash and slice cucumber, apple into smaller sizes
-Blend until it is smooth
-Add honey and a little water to it
-Add crushed ice and yoghurt
-Blend it till you achieve your desired texture
– Then serve
