Creative Cooking in a Culinary Contest #2

manuelhooks (71)memberin Steem4Nigeria • 11 months ago

Creative Cooking

Hello, friends!

You are all welcome to another week of creative cooking contest, the content this week is staring a special spice locally known as Ngansang seed or Njansang. To make sure we are all on the same page, here is a picture of the spice in question.

It is scientifically identified as Ricinodendron heudelotii and used in some specific African cuisine.
This spice is used in a wide variety of combinations and ratios to give the dish a desired texture, flavour or appearance.

In this week's Creative Cooking contest, you are expected to give us any local recipe that has our beloved Ngansang as an Ingredient.

Expected Content

The following questions shall serve as guidelines to help streamline your content in this contest. Please follow the guidelines as closely as possible while expressing your creativity and Culinary skills.

What is the local name for this spice and does it have any medicinal properties?
How do you measure the quantity of this spice to be used in your cooking.
How did you come in contact with this spice, a short narrative will be preferable.
What local dishes are cooked with this ingredient, with what spice do you often combine it with?
Give a recipe for cooking one of your local dishes that involves this spice.

Contest Rules

Publish in Steem4Nigeria community.
Post must be #steemexclusive.
Participants must not use any automatic voting service.
The participation time is between Monday, 27 November 2023 to Monday the 4th of December 2023 at 23:59 UTC.
The publication can be in any language.
Post must be over 350 words.
The images used must be the author's own or copyright-free. (Don't forget to include the source.)
Plagiarism and the use of AI is prohibited.
Upvote and resteem this contest post and Invite at least 3 friends to take part in this contest.
The user must belong to a club (club5050, club75, club100).
Use the tags #culinaryclash2 and your country (example- #nigeria) #steemexclusive.
Use the #burnsteem25 tag only if you have set 25% beneficiary to @null.
Post the link to your entry in the comment section of this contest post. (very important).
Endeavor to leave valuable comments on other people's entries.
Share your publication on Twitter and drop the link as a comment on your post.
10 STEEM Power will be shared between the top 3 winners in a ratio of 5:3:2.
The decision of the jury shall not be contested.

Conclusion

Thank you for participating in this contest. hopefully you will challenge yourself to be as creative as possible, while adhering to the guidelines, to create an edible work of art with your Culinary skills. May your efforts be rewarded by our curators, and may your skills and imagination flourish.