In life, there are things that I like doing by myself. No matter how tired or how busy I am, I like cooking by myself or washing of my clothes by myself. It's not that others can cook very well but I have a test, so I like giving myself the test of food I want. In this 5 days writing challenge organised by @steemalive, I'm going to show you guys how to prepare 4 different meals. But to start with, let me show you how to prepare a delicious African salad. Before I go on to show you steps on how to prepare this delicious meal, let me tell you the ingredients used in preparing the food

Ingredients	Used
Red oil	dry Abacha
Salt	Fresh pepper
Seasoning cubes	Carrots
Cucumber	Crawfish
Fresh tomatoes	Onions
Ginger	Garlic
Water	Pot for cooking.

The first thing I did was to was to prepare my ingredients since the dried Abacha I bought is very easy to soften while soaked in water. But their are some that stays in the water for a long time before the will soften. So you can use hot water on them. Mine was soaked with normal room temperature water. So I started my preparations with the 🥕 carrots. I removed the back shell. After that, I sliced it it to my desires choice.

After that, I washed other things like, tomatoes, fresh pepper, onions, garlic and ginger. And also removed the dirt's from the crawfish.

It time now to slice all the ingredients together. I sliced the onions and tomatoes, including carrots and cucumber. Done with that, I grind the fresh pepper, garlic and ginger, and crawfish together. After preparing all these things, I now added water to the Abacha with salt for taste. I waited for few minutes, boom!! The Abacha is soft already.

The ingredients are ready.

Cooking time, I placed my neat pot on 🔥 fire, add water to eat with red oil, the seasoning cubes, the grinded crawfish with ginger and garlic, and fresh pepper too. I also add amount of desired salt to it and allow it to boil for 10 minutes. I tasted it an get the test of what I needed. So, I added the Abacha inside the pot, then mixed it together with the oil. The next thing I did was to off the gas and add the vegetables to it.

This happens to be the last step. After mixing up the Abacha with the ingredients. I used the once I sliced special to design the food. Hahahaha, I know you will like to see how it looks after preparing right?? Here it goes 👇.

It's really yummy yummy 😜😜😜🤪. You need to have a taste of it. So, the next thing I did was to dish it out. I and my family enjoyed it.

This cooking challenge will help us to show case our talents in cooking. I really that @steemalive for coming up with this Contest. Am telling you, I will teach you guys, how to cook different meals in this contest.

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@ijelady
@steemalive.

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