Travelling can be amazing when you got to explore and experience new things. Foods is one of the most amazing things I enjoyed when traveling to different geographical regions.
Welcome to the Eastern Region of Nigeria, were we explore different kinds of local and traditional meals, if you are from Africa or been to most African Nations, you will understand how they value their traditional or local foods.
Nigeria is blessed with different kinds of food products, produced within the country and most of the national meal are locally produced and consumed within the country.
It's a beautiful day here, I step out of the house leaving my system for a break, I went on a search to discover new kind of food combinations to make for dinner.
I was thinking of tasting something special and unique rather than my normal meals I often have when I visit home.
Thought of mentioning those normal food.. But I need to skip it for now..
I came across this special plants called Plantain
Yes it one of the popular plants in the garden.
Plantains look similar to bananas but are typically cooked before consumption. They’re not as sweet as bananas but still may be good for your heart and are higher in antioxidants.source.
Now thinking of preparing this special food, I saw another plants too called Beans
Commonly eaten worldwide, beans and legumes are rich sources of fiber, essential vitamins and minerals, and plant-based protein source.
My Food Recipe
- Plantain
- Beans
- Oil
- Crayfish
- Pepper
- Salt
- Spices
- Water.
With this listed ingredients.
I took the beans and washed and removed the cover... This process is usually for bean cake preparation
How to Prepare Akara (Beans Cake)
Step 1
Transfer the beans into a clean bowl, sprinkle just very little water (half cup), and start squeezing hard against your palm.As you do this repeatedly, the outer coat will start pulling off, sprinkle more water but never allow to soak, just keep squeezing and robbing against your palm for the next 2 minutes.
Add water and let the coats decant freely.It should look like this.
*Step 2Keep rubbing against your palm, add more water and decant. It would be about 10 minutes before you have the de-coated beans. It would look like this.
After this process the beans is ready and I took the Plantain for processing..
Step to preparing your Plantain.
After proper washing the Plantain, I cut it to remove the cover before sliced into small chunks.
Now the Beans and the Plantain is ready...
I also prepare the ingredients
Cutting the Onion before slicing it.
The crayfish
THE FINAL RESULT.
I cooked the beans about 20 minutes before adding the Plantain and ingredients sauce.
Now My delicious meal is ready.!
I can tell you that the meal was so delicious and I can't wait to finish it.
I'm grad you like this my New Special Food Recipe Beans & Plantain
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