PAN FRIED SALMON WITH BROCCOLI-PRAWN RICE

PAN-FRIED SALMON WITH BROCCOLI-PRAWN RICE

I love preparing very colorful dishes and vegetables do the tricks. Not only are they healthy, but also makes the dish very attractive and tasty as well.

This dish is a delightful combination of pan-fried marinated salmon with juicy prawn, tomatoes, broccoli and rice.

INGREDIENTS

Salt
Prawns
Broccoli
Tomatoes

½ lemon

Spring onions 

½ Red onions

½ white onions 

Garlic granules

Black peppercorns

2 teaspoon of olive oil
4 pieces of salmon fillets
I teaspoon of Knorr aromat

1 tablespoon Curry powder

1 tablespoon of sunflower oil/veg oil

1½ cups of long grain rice

2 knorr cubes
 

   

PREPARATIONS

Lay the salmon fillets on a tray, sprinkle salt on them. Pat the salmons with your fingers. Then sprinkle the knorr aromat all over the fish, pat them in as well. Sprinkle the peppercorns and finally squeeze and sprinkle the lemon on them. Transfer the salmons onto a bowl and cover with cling film, put into the fridge and allow marinating for 4 – 5hrs.

In a medium pot, pour in about 1700ml of water and bring to boiling. Wash the rice with warm water and add into the boiling water. Add a cube of knorr and pinch of salt; allow boiling till the rice is done. Drain the water and run cold water on it, so the heat doesn’t cook it any further. Set aside

Please remember to turn the rice at some point so it cooks properly and water must be above the rice level, just like when one boils spaghetti.

Trim the broccolis. Core the tomatoes and cut into chunks. Slice the spring onions and onions. Set aside.

In a frying pan, put in the prawns, add pinch of salt. Cook for about 1 mins. Take out the prawn and pour the water from the prawns into a small soup plate. Turn on the oven to 150 degrees.

Heat up the pan, pour in 1 tsp. olive oil, and allow heating for few seconds. Add the onions, stir-fry for some seconds. Then add the prawns, add ½ knorr cube and fry for about a minute.

Add the tomatoes and spring, fry for 3 minutes. Turn of the gaslight and then add the broccoli. Put into the oven and allow cooking for 5 minutes.

In a wok, pour in the sunflower oil, allow for some seconds to heat up. Add the onions, ½ knorr cube and then the rice and curry.  Fry for about 3 – 4 minutes until the curry mixes well. Taste and add pinch of salt if not satisfied.

Add the vegetables onto the rice, 2 tablespoons of the water from the prawns. Cover with the lid and allow cooking on a medium gas heat for 2-3 minutes.

For salmon

In a grill pan, add 1 tsp. of olive oil. Allow heating, the fry the salmons for 2 mins each bottom/top and 1 minute each on the sides. Serve with the rice.

VEGETABLE OMELET

VEGETABLE OMELET

INGREDIENTS

Olive oil

Pinch of salt

Onions - cubed

Spring onions - sliced

Tomatoes – cored and cube

1 medium sized pepper - sliced
3 eggs + 1 Knorr cube – well beaten 

Crisp young lettuce – lightly chopped

PREPARATIONS

In a frying pan, add 1/3 of tablespoon of olive oil, allow heating for some seconds. Pour in the beaten eggs; add onions and pepper, spreading them proportionally on the egg. Reduce the gas heat to medium, so the egg cooks slowly.

       

Once the egg starts to take shape, lay the tomatoes, spring onions and young cabbage leaves on one side of the egg and use the other side to cover it up, so that the ingredients remain inside.

        

Now flip it over and press the omelet with the spatula, so the heat goes inside enabling it cook properly. It doesn't have to be perfect or pretty.

The whole process takes about 8 – 10 minutes max.

This omelet is a healthy option for those of us that love eating eggs.

Try it and give a feedback.

Thanks

Stay Blessed!

ROASTED GARLIC CHICKEN

ROASTED CHICKEN

Chicken tastes better when marinated overnight. Sometimes I roast them without marinating overnight, all I do is just let it sit in the fridge for couple of hours.

Here is how I do it!

Ingredients

Fresh thyme

Black peppercorns

2 medium onions

Lemon

Sea salt/table salt

Knorr Aromat/all purpose seasoning

Olive oil

Garlic granules

Preparations

Using a fork, poke the chicken skin. Put a tablespoon of knorr aromat, 2 tablespoons garlic granules and olive oil into a small bowl. Using your fingers, mix together and rub on the skin. Sprinkle salt and lemon. Cover with a cling film, put in the fridge for 2 hours or more.

Preheat oven…After 2 hours, sprinkle the black peppercorns on the chicken, put the thyme and drizzle olive oil on the chicken. Cut the onions into wedges and put by the side of the chicken. Half the lemon, sprinkle about a tablespoon on the chicken and put by the side of the chicken.

Put the chicken into the oven and turn down the heat to 200 degrees/gas 6 and roast for 1hr30mins. After 40 minutes bring out the chicken and use foil to cover the breast {this helps keep the breast moist and not dry up}.

Always drizzle olive oil on the chicken when it’s drying up. When cooked, transfer the chicken to a board and allow cooling.

Serve and enjoy!

The stock from the chicken could be used for gravy.

Garlic granules - Lidl

Knorr aromat - African shop

 

AMAZING PANCAKES

  

Pancakes + Mackerel + sausages

Ingredients

1 cup of flour

2 eggs

2 tbsp. of melted butter

Pinch of salt

200 mls of milk

55 mls of water

For serving

Chicken sausages

2 tins of mackerel fillets

1 pepper

Preparations

In a bowl, sift in the flour. Add a pinch of salt and make a well in the middle of the flour.

Break in the eggs and whisk together. Add the water into the milk and gradually add small quantities while still whisking.

Whisk until the all the liquid mixture has been added and the batter has the consistency of a thin cream.

Melt the butter in a frying pan. Spoon 2 tbsp. of it into the batter and whisk until it mixes together. Use the remainder of the butter to grease the frying pan before making the pancakes.

Heat up the pan then turn it down to the medium. Ladle 3 tbsp. of the batter into the hot pan all in a go, tip it around from sides to sides. This is to help get the base evenly coated with batter.

After about half a minute or when the bottom is golden brown, flip the pancake over. The other side will only need few seconds to cook.

Slide the pancake out of the pan and onto a plate.

To serve

In a frying pan, warm up the sausages.

Drain all the oil from the mackerel, empty the content into a bowl. Cut the pepper and add into the fish, mash together. Set aside

Sprinkle each pancake with caster sugar and lemon. Put the sausage at the edge of the pancake, then followed by the mackerel and roll.

Enjoy 

NB: one can use sardine or any other fish. I buy the mackerel fillets from Lidl.

you can also use soup spoon to scoop the batter into the pan.

batter in hot pan

will look like this when flipped over

 

pancakes

Sausages

 

Pepper and Mackerel

Ready to roll

Learnt this from @Zitera, my dem n'aka manager. Follow her on twitter. 

EGG SANDWICH

Egg sandwich

Ingredients 

Cabbage/lettuce

4 slices of 50/50 bread

Cucumber - sliced

3 Eggs

Salt

Butter

Mayonnaise/ketchup/black sauce

Tomatoes - sliced

Onions - sliced

Preparations

Break in the eggs into a small bowl, season with salt, whip and fry.

Fold and cut into half. Set aside

Toast two slices of bread until brown. On a slice of bread, spread butter, cover with the cabbage, followed by half of the fried eggs and then the tomatoes. Spread mayonnaise, then the onions and cucumber. Finally, spread mayonnaise again and cover with the other toasted bread.

Cut diagonally and serve.

 

 

Repeat it for the two slices left.

ACE'S EASY BREEZY WRAPS

ACE’s EASY BREEZY WRAPS

Ingredients

Tortilla wraps

Cucumber

Young leaves salad with beetroot

Pepper

Chicken thigh or any other part

Mayonnaise

Onions

Mushrooms

Olive oil

Black pepper

Preparations

Slice the mushroom. In a frying pan, add a teaspoon of olive oil, add salt, black pepper and heat up. Add the mushrooms and fry for about 2 mins. Set aside.

Grill the chicken until done. Remove the bones, cut the pepper and mix with the chicken. Set aside. Cut the onions, and cucumber, set aside.

 

**I buy my chicken in larger quantity, season them and freeze. You can do the same. Here is how I Season them. spice the chicken with knorr cubes, salt, garlic, malt vinegar or lemon and thyme. Allow to seat for an hour, the package them into portions and freeze. Bring it out whenever you want to use them, defrost and grill. Its so tasty!  

Warm the wraps in the microwaves for 20 secs, this makes it more flexible. Transfer the wraps on a foil; spread the mayonnaise, followed by the leaves, cucumbers, and onions. Then the chicken, mayonnaise, mushroom and top up with the leaves again. Then wrap it up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

One can buy the young leaf salad for either Iceland or Lidl and its just for £1.

SIMPLE COCNUT RICE N BEANS

I am an expert when it comes to rice dishes. Rice is actually one of favorites and my obstacle to losing weight. I prepare two rice dishes every week. This recipe is simple really.

SIMPLE COCONUT RICE BEANS

 
Ingredients
2 cups of long grain rice
½ cup Nigerian sweet beans
2 knorr cubes
Salt
Whole chicken or beef or fish
Coconut milk
Crayfish
Pepper – optional
Olive oil
Green pepper
Onions
Ginger

Butterfly Chicken

I watched a Youtube video to learn this. Watch here  http://video.about.com/bbq/How-to-Butterfly-a-Chicken.htm

Blend green pepper, small ginger, onions, and 1 cube of knorr and 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Put the chicken in a bowl; pour the mix on the chicken. Cover and put into the fridge to marinate overnight.

Roast in the oven for an hour 25 mins 170 degrees the next day.   

Beans

Cook the beans as directed here  http://labelle-afrilight.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/bean-n-stew.html

For the rice

In a medium pot, add water and bring to boiling. Once boiled, add the rice and boil for 5 mins, drain with water with a sieve and set the rice aside.

Wash the pot, pour the coconut milk in, add 100mls of water and bring to boiling. Wash the crayfish with warm water and blend with the onions and pepper.  Add 2 cubes of knorr and salt. Taste, add more salt if you need to.

Cover the pot and allow boiling, so the ingredients all mix together. Add the rice, allow boiling for 2 mins, and then turn the gas to the lowest so the rice soaks up the water. Turn the rice time and again so to ensure the heat goes round evenly. This could take about 15mins.

Turn and serve hot with the Roasted chicken

Enjoy.