Food challenge contest week #63|| by; v-brainer>>For kids and parents| Teach the kids

Hello everyone here in this community, it's been a while here, i hope everyone here are doing great. I am v-brainer and today i want to engage in the food contest challenge week #63 organized by the official account of this community @steemkidss. Please ride along with me as i carefully teach talk on how i was able to prepare my favorite local dish.

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My favorite local food is "Amala and Egusi soup"
Before i show the processes involved in cooking them, let me tell you a bit about them.

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Egusi

Egusi is gotten from a plant called "cucumeropsis manni" or "white seed melon". The melon is opened and the white seeds "Egusi" is extracted from it and tried. After a while, the seeds are opened and seperated from the yellowish back. The white seed is then grinded to powdered form .

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Amala

Amala is gotten from yam, or potato that is sliced into small pieces and dried in the sun so that the moisture goes off. After a while when the yam peel must have dried, it us then grinded to powdered form and then it is ready for cooking.

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How To Cook Egusi Soup

There are different ways of cooking Egusi soup but for the purpose of originality, i am going to be showing the processes involved in the one i learnt from my sister which i can cook my self. Below are step by step procedures

Ingredients Used

• Egusi
• Palm Oil
• Salt
• Spice (Maggi)
• Onions
• Crayfish
• Meat
• Water
• Pepper

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Step 1

Wash the meat and pour into a pot, add salt, onions and spices then allow to boil for few minutes depending on when the meat is well cooked

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Step 2

After boiling the meat, pour out in a plate. Pour palm oil into a hot pot that is on a heat source (on fire). Allow the oil to get hot a little then add chopped onions into the hot oil

Then add the powdered Egusi and crayfish grinded together into the oil and stir-fry for few minutes

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Step 3

Pour in the boiled meat into the pot and stir well mixing the stir-fried Egusi and the water used in boiling the meat very well.

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Step 4
Allow to boil for like 10 minutes making sure the heat source is sufficient and the Soup is ready

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How to make Amala

Step 1

Pour a certain quantity of water into a pit depending on the quantity of Amala you want to make

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Step 2

When the the water boils to the extent that there is visible bubbles, then you know it is time to make Amala. Pour the Amala flour into the boiling water as you stir very well almost simultaneously. Turn very well with a smooth stick so as to make a very smooth Amala

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Step 3

After turning very well, bring the pot down and fetch into a plate using cutter or big spoon

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After making the The "Egusi soup and Amala"
I best enjoy it when i sit on the floor, wash my hands thoroughly and eat with my hands😋

Egusi and Amala is a very nutritious food and one of my favorite local food. I like it because it is so delicious and i hardly feel hungry after taking it for the day. It is also good for the children too being that it gives strength and enough energy.

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Food is something we need to survive and so, learning how to prepare and cook different kind of food is very important. This contest is a very wonderful one and so i will like to invite my steemian friends@solexybaba @samuelebuka and @gidsbrown to participate in this contest to

Thank you for reading through. I hope you enjoyed flipping through