SteemFoods Contest 6 Presents: Promoting a Traditional Food in my Country: Cabbage sauce and Irish potatoes

It may sound like an intercontinental dish but I've never been outside my country Nigeria and seen such dish before.

It's a unique dish that was prepared by my mum and because of it I followed the whole process from the beginning to the end.

Cabbage Sauce and Irish potatoes

• Cabbage sauce

Just as the name implies it's a vegetable sauce made out of a major ingredient cabbage, then carrots, green beans and green pepper.

Cabbage is a leafy green plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. It's health benefits includes; improving digestion, vitamin c, lower blood pressure and cholesterol etc.

• Irish potatoes

Irish potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade solanum tuberosum. It's one of the many varieties of potatoes such as sweet potatoes and the rest.

It's known for improving blood sugar control, digestive health, naturally gluten-free and many more.

So far so good it's only well known restaurants and supermarkets such as ShopRite, Chicken Republic, Kilimanjaro that are flexible enough to offer this kind of dish because it can be very expensive when offered for sale.

My plate of dish with a little bit of chopped meat or chicken can cost from about #2,500~35 Steem and above.

My first time of eating it was when my mom made it a while back and since then I've not eaten it outside.

To enjoy this dish better a cold can of Coke or Pepsi is required and it's costs about 1.5 Steem~#100.

• Ingredients

1 cube of Seasoning cubes
½ spoon of salt (to taste)
½ spoon of curry powder
½ spoon of corn flour (thickener)
1 whole cabbage
¼ basket of carrots
1 handful of green beans
5 green peppers
½ ball of nutmeg
2 balls of onions
½ basket of irish potatoes
210 grams of groundnut oil

• Preparation process

Peel and cut the Irish potatoes in a bowl and cook in a pot separate from the one to be used for the sauce.

Wash thoroughly and cut in reasonable size the cabbage, carrots, green pepper, green peas and onions.

Pour the diced vegetables into a pot of water half the size of the pot containing the 210 grams of groundnut oil.

Add other ingredients such as; seasoning cubes, corn flour, curry powder and grated nutmeg.

Allow the vegetable to boil. The curry powder acts as thickener to the sauce.

When the dish is cooked well, serve the potatoes in a flat plate while the sauce in a bow plate

• Photo speaks

The curry powder

Nutmeg

A pot of already boiled irish potatoes

The sauce on fire

Already cooking

My cabbage Sauce with a little boiled egg on the side

This is basically one of the simplest dish I can practically close my eyes to prepare. It's just the same process of preparing salad but in this case it's sauce and it's not eaten with salad cream.

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Becky

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