SLS33-From My kitchen To Your Plate Week#2 My City My Taste - Palm Oil Rice

It is my pleasure to take part in this contest, and I appreciate the fact that it has to do with kitchen. I enjoyed putting things to the pot and turn it to the plate for consumption.

So thinking about this contest, I remember those childhood days when my mum is back from work very tired and we are hungry, she will enter the kitchen and make something simple but very Nutritious for us, and that's palm oil rice.

Not only my mum preparing this rice, but this was the easiest thing I've ever cook while growing up, so mum showed me how to cook this rice which I can always cook it for me and my siblings whenever she's now around.

Also, it will interest you to know that, every home in my city, majority of every girl child knows how to cook palm oil rice, as it can be done without much supervision.

The crayfish aroma, the palm oil flavour, the leaf flavour is something you will definitely want to taste because it always nice.

The ingredients of palm oil rice is always readily available at home and it's easy for you to quickly do a fast spicy turn-pot palm oil rice for the family.

Now let's check out the ingredients and steps of how I prepared this delicious palm oil rice.

Ingredients

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Item	Quantity
Rice	2 cups
Palm oil	5 tablespoons
Fresh pepper	1 big size
Onion	2 medium sizes
Crayfish	to taste
Seasoning cubes	to taste
Salt	to taste
Protein	Eggs
Stock	as required depending on the rice quantity

Mis en place

Wash the rice till water runs clear

place the pot on fire till it's hot	Add palm oil to the pot and heat it up

Add onions to it and stir till the onions is soft and translucent

add rice to it and stir, add seasoning cubes to taste	add blended crayfish, pepper and salt to taste

add meat stock to the rice and cover the pot	you cook till soft and tender

Added the ugu leaf to my rice and it was done

My palm oil rice is ready

Tell us the name of special food of your city or the name of food that belongs to your city (give at least 4 examples)

In my city we have a lot of food that we eat, ranging from different types of rice, soups, swallow etc.

We are not limited to a particular food we have varieties and when it comes to special meal I want to give you the ones that you can always see any way you are in my city.

We have the following;

• Afia Efere
• Afang Soup
• Editan Soup
• Ekpang Nkukwo

Because these food are special, when I say special they are really special you will always see them very expensive in any restaurants in my city.

But aside from this meal you can always see the different types of rice like the jollof rice the palm oil rice pepper soup rice etc.

Share the Cultural importance of the food belongs to a city?

Talking about cultural importance of the food palm oil is naturally produced in my place. It is produce from palm fruit and it is healthy, it gives food that's red natural colour with lots of nutrients.

Palm fruit is one of those things you will see on my city logo, this shows that cultural heritage that convey or communicate to the next generations. Therefore,we need to remember and continue extracting palm oil from palm fruit rather than destroying them from time to time.

It is also cooked in occasions, traditional marriage and in parties.

Then when added ugu leaf to palm oil rice, its nutritional value increases to a higher level. This leaf is used in cooking our traditional dishes which is widely known for increasing blood levels and it has vitamin A,B,C,&E, it also contains minerals.

Because of this nutritional value, this leaf is commonly used in all home, it is unavoidable when cooking some special dishes like this rice and ekpang Nkukwo even some certain soups in my place.

It is affordable as almost all homes plant it in their garden, ugu leaf and palm oil has a cultural importance.

Immediately I finished cooking this rice, my daughter who was having her nap, woke up and she really enjoyed the rice with her soy milk drink.

This is something you don't need to miss, when once this food is done, that's how other family members will rush the food and it is eaten while its hot.

Some good old days when I was a student leaving in the hostel, the aroma of palm oil rice, wakes everyone up in the hostel and they rush the food till it's finished. It spreads love, unity and bond seeing everyone eat together.

Thank you so much for bringing back this memory, I do appreciate.

I will like to invite my friends to take part in this contest @goodybest, @dequeen and @chant to take part in this contest