Food challenge contest week #115|| Preparing Rice and Stew

Hello steemikids and parents community, it is a pleasure to participate in this food challenge contest. I have something for the kids to learn especially Nigerian kids. For this challenge I will be preparing a popular Nigerian dish called Rice and stew, for my stew I will be preparing chicken stew.

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Shopping

First thing I did was to go shopping, I went and bought a lap of chicken for ₦2500 appr 4.96 steem. Then I bought 4 cups of rice which is the amount of rice to fill my pot. The Rice's cost appr 2.3 steem.
Then I got some ingredients like
Pepper
Onions
Curry
Thyme
Spicity
Groundnut oil
Tin Tomatoes
Everything cost about 10 steem

_{Shopping for my ingredients}

Stew

Now onto the preparation
I started with the chicken. I washed them and put them inside a pot then I proceeded to add onions, seasoning cubes, pepper and salt.

I put the pot on fire and allowed it to steem before adding thyme to bring out the aroma of the flavour.

When the meat was tender, I brought it down and proceeded to start the stew proper.
I took an empty pot and set it on the fire, when it was hot I added groundnut oil and allowed it to heat up. When the oil was hot I put salt and onions in, then I immediately put the tin Tomatoes paste inside the pot. When I did this I made sure to keep stirring the tomatoes paste until it was evenly fried if not the stew will be slapping when you taste it.

When I had gotten the desired frying, I poured the chicken I had prepared earlier into the pot and continued stirring.
I also put in the remaining condiments like water, pepper, seasoning cubes and the curry and spicity into the pot. And covered it to boil.

With this, I waited for 2 minutes and brought the stew done.
It was now time to prepare the rice that will be used with the stew.

Rice

This process is not difficult at all. It just involved washing the Rice's, putting it on fire and washing it again when it boils(parboiling) then add salt and groundnut oil. The groundnut oil helps the rice to be non sticky.

When the rice was done I dished it and serves myself and as you can see it is very appealing to the eyes.
I really enjoyed the meal which I ate with a fellow steemians @rexzitek who will drop his critic on the food.

_{Final results}

That's all from my preparation and I hope you can prepare this dish on your own. I invite @goodybest, @bossj23 and @vudeme122 to participate in this food challenge contest.