Cooking Contest || Week-10 || Prove yourself as the best ladies chef on the steemit platform

Good evening and happy new month to my beloved steemians across the globe, I'm so delighted to be here with you all, I pray may God bless the new month for each and everyone of us all.

I wanna say a big thank you to @shiftitamanna for organizing this amazing contest. I'm excited to be a participant, and I believe you will enjoy my dish.

The name of the dish I made this week is Ekpang Nkukwo, it is my local delicacy, it's a very unique dish that is only cooked on special occasions because of it's nature and uniqueness.

Why I made this dish is because of my elder sister, she said I should cook Ekpang Nkukwo for her because that's what she is craving for since she is heavily pregnant and she has been demanding for all manner of food for me to cook for her, not minding the stress involved.

I will first of all mention all the ingredients needed to be able to cook Ekpang Nkukwo, followed by step by step process of making it.

Ingredients
• Cocoyam

• Wateryam

• Periwinkle

• Crayfish

• Pepper

• Maggi

• Salt

• Red oil

• Bonga fish

• Cocoyam leaf

Step by step Preparation

Peeled the Cocoyam and wateryam,
Washed and grate it. Then I sprinkle a small amount of salt on the Wateryam and cocoyam so that it can have taste.

^{Cocoyam and wateryam being ready to be wrapped into the pot}

I washed my periwinkle into the pot, seasoned it Maggie, salt, pepper and red oil into the pot and turned it well.

^{Pot of oil, periwinkle, pepper, Maggi and salt}

I wrapped the Cocoyam and wateryam bit by bit with the nkukwo (Cocoyam ) leaf into the pot.

After wrapping everything into the pot, I will now used hot water and pour into the pot of the wrapped Ekpang Nkukwo and placed it on fire, it will boil for about 30 to 45 minutes, I will keep putting water at intervals.

^{Putting hot water into the pot after wrapping it all}

When it's finally soften well I will now put the remaining ingredients, like crayfish, fish, Maggi, pepper and red oil. I cover it to simmer well for 10minutes more. Then later I slice curry leaf (ikò) and put into the pot for flavour, some people uses scent leaf too.

^{Putting the curry leaf}

After putting the curry leaf, I put my bonga fish then I stir the pot with a spatula and cover it again to simmer for 2minutes , then I put it down and turn off the gas.

^{The Ekpang Nkukwo was ready to be dished}

I spend a whole lot in buying all this items, so let me list them down here.

Items	amount in NGN	amount in stm
Wateryam	1,500 NGN	3.33steem
Cocoyam	1000 NGN	2.56steem
Periwinkle	400 NGN	1.56steem
Nkukwo (Cocoyam) leaf	400NGN	1.56steem
Crayfish	1000 NGN	2.56steem
Red oil	1200 NGN	2.60steem
Curry leaf	100 NGN	0.26steem
Pepper	200 NGN	0.52steeem

^Enjoyment

The rest of the items that are not mentioned above was already in the house and that made it easier and less spending.

I am inviting @chant, @patjewell and @goodybest to participate in the contest.