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Tuo Zaafi

Tuo Zaafi

Ingredients

● Ayoyo leaves

● Saltpetre (Potassium nitrate)

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● 3 tablespoonfuls of powdered fish

● Half cup of powdered okro

● Dawadawa

● Pepper

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● Two large onions

● Two tablespoonfuls of fish sea­soning

● Three tablespoonfuls of all-pur­pose

spices

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●One kilogram of meat (Beef)

● Palm oil

● 3 large tomatoes

● Two large salmon

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● Herrings

● One cup of cassava flour

● Two cups of corn flour

Preparation

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-Chop the ayoyo leaves into smaller sizes.

-Boil water, add chopped onion, powdered

fish, powdered okro and dawadawa

-After five minutes, add ayoyo leaves and

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saltpeter.

-Don’t cover, stir continuously until ingredients become soft.

-Add salt and seasoning. Allow to simmer for three minutes and soup is ready.

-Cut meat into desirable sizes. Wash and put meat in big saucepan over moderate heat.

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-Blend onion, ginger, garlic and add to meat.

-Add salt and seasoning and cover meat to steam for five- 10 minutes.

-Heat pan over medi­um high heat until hot and then add olive oil.

-Add the chicken.

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-Fry until browned and flip.

-Add chopped onion and garlic and sauce until tender and start to turn brown.

-Add grinded pepper, tomato puree and stir intermittently.

-Wash salmon, her­rings and add to stew.

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-After 6-10 minutes, add spices and allow to cook.

-Taste for salt and add some chopped onions.

-Finally add fried meat and allow to sim­mer for three minutes.

-Fetch some corn flour and add cold water. Mix thoroughly to form a solution.

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-Boil enough water and add corn flour to cook for five-10 minutes.

-Fetch some of the solution into a separate bowl.

-Mix dry corn dough and cassava dough and add mixture bit by bit to the boiling corn dough and stir thor­oughly to prevent any lumps.

-Add the corn dough solution you fetched aside to the Tuo Zaafi to make it soft and stir.

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-After 15-20 minutes of stirring the Tuo Zaafi, you turn off the heat.

-Serve Tuo Zaafi with stew and soup.

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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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