Nutrition
Plantain bread
This Plantain bread is really tasty, inexpensive and so easy to make. Plantain bread is an easy recipe that uses normal ingredients, quick to prepare, and turns out great every time.
Ingredients
2 cups of flour
1 tablespoonful of salt
3/4 cup of sugar
8 table spoonfuls of 113grammes butter
2 table spoonfuls of baking powder
2 overripe plantain
1/4 cup of yoghurt
2 eggs
3 tablespoonfuls of milk
1 tablespoonful of vanilla extract
Method
Preheat the Oven to 350°F then grease and flour the baking pan and set aside.
Combine the flour, salt, and baking powder.
Whisk, mash or blend the plantain till fairly smooth.
Use a hand whisk to cream the butter and sugar for two to three minutes. Add the eggs one at a time and cream together until just combined. Add the Yoghurt and vanilla and whisk together.
Mix the mashed plantains with the whisked butter mixture then add the mixture to the dry ingredients (flour, salt, and baking powder). Fold a couple of times until well mixed. (don’t over mix).
Stir in the milk and mix till combined.
Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan. Smooth out the surface of the batter and bake for 50 minutes to one hr or till a tester or toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
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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
