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
Benefits of shrimps
-High in protein:
Shrimp is a lean protein source, providing essential amino acids for muscle building and repair.
– Low in calories:
Due to its low calorie content, shrimp can be incorporated into weight loss diets.
– Omega-3 fatty acids:
These healthy fats in shrimp can improve heart health by lowering bad cholesterol levels.
– Antioxidants
This pigment found in shrimp is a powerful antioxidant that may help protect cells from damage and potentially reduce inflammation.
-Essential minerals:
Shrimp provides important minerals like selenium, zinc, iodine, and vitamin B12 which are crucial for immune function, thyroid health, and cognitive function.
– Bone health:
The calcium and vitamin D content in shrimp can contribute to maintaining strong bones.
Potential cancer prevention:
Some studies suggest that the antioxidants in shrimp may have anti-cancer properties.
Source;foods.com
Nutrition
Shito
Shito is a Ghanaian hot pepper sauce, made with ingredients like dried chili peppers, dried fish, ginger, and oil, and is used in various dishes, especially rice-based meals and swallows.
Ingredients
-5 litre of oil
-70 grams of fresh onion
-100 grams of tomato paste
– 40 grams of powdered pepper
– 30 grams of ginger
– 30 grams of fish powder
– 10 grams of powdered garlic
-30 grams of powdered shrimps
-30 grams of powdered herrings
– 5 tablespoonfuls of salt to taste
Preparation
-Pound or blend dry hot pepper together with fresh ginger
– Pound or blend dried shrimps and dried herrings
-Grind onion, garlic and hot pepper
-Heat oil
-Add grinded or blended onions, garlic and pepper.
– Allow it cook for a while.
– Add powered shrimps and powered dried herrings to it.
– Cover and allow to cook further until all water has evaporated
– Add pounded hot pepper, stir, cover and allow to cook
– Add fish powder and continue stirring to avoid burning
– Cook until sauce is dark brown in colour
-Take off the heat and serve with rice, waakye, gari, jollof etc
By Linda Abrefi Wadie
