Food Challenge Contest Week #128 || For kids and parents| Preparing Porridge Plantain by @missyleo

Warm greetings my beloved steemians across the globe, it's a pleasure to be here once again to participate in this wonderful food contest. This is one of the best challenge I love partaking in because it's all about food, we are 5&6, why are you laughing🥺? What I mean is that I love cooking and not the other way round, lol.

Before I begin my writing I will first of all say a big thank you to this dear community @steemkids for always organizing this contest.

Sweet porridge plantain

In my post today, I will be preparing porridge plantain, and I will show you the steps I took in preparing it, there are different ways to prepare it but I'm going to show you my simplest way of doing it, I hope you will enjoy while reading.

I will start by listing out the ingredients I used in preparing my porridge plantain before I moved into explaining the steps of preparing it.

Ingredients

Part of the ingredients well arranged and kept aside

• Plantain
• Periwinkle (with shell)
• Red oil
• Crayfish
• Seasoning cube
• Bonga fish 2 pieces
• Salt to taste
• Dried Pepper
• Pumpkin Leaf
• Curry leaf
• Onions

Method of preparation

Step1

I started by pealing the unripe plantain into the cooking pot, I then plugged out the vegetable leaf and curry leaf into a bowl and added water, then I set it aside.

After peeling the plantain and plugging the pumpkin and curry leaves

Step 2

I started slicing the plantain into tiny pieces into the cooking pot, there after I peeled and sliced the onions and added into the pot of plantain too.

Sliced plantain and sliced onions

Step 3

I added quantity of water I wanted into it and placed the pot on fire to start cooking, while it was cooking on fire I pounded the crayfish and set aside and I also prepared the bonga fish by removing the shelf and the tiny bones from it, washed and set aside too, I washed the periwinkle very well and set aside also.

Step 4

After 15minutes of boiling, I then added other ingredients like, the pepper, seasoning cube, Bonga fish, red oil, crayfish, periwinkle and salt to taste.

Putting the periwinkle

Pouring the red oil into the pot

Step 5

I covered the pot and allowed it to boil for about 5 to 7minutes again, when it has boiled and almost done, I then added the sliced pumpkin and curry leaves into the pot of plantain on fire.

Adding the sliced pumpkin and curry leaves

I stirred it together then I covered the pot and then allowed it to simmer for 2 minutes before I turned of the cooking gas and put the pot down.

My delicious porridge plantain was ready to be eaten, I dished out the portion I want to eat while I preserved the rest in the freezer so that it can still stay fresh whenever i want to eat it.

My delicious porridge plantain

Health benefits of eating plantain

• Plantain is a very good source of potassium, a mineral that aids in the treatment of hypertension.

• Plantain have high quantity of fiber which aids in body digestion.

• Plantain is a good source of calcium which aids in body growth and development.

• Plantain helps in weight loss, it promotes a sense of fullness and make you to eat less.

Ready to be eaten

Thanks for reading my post, I am inviting my senior friends to come join me in eating and also take part in the contest.
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