Contest| "Tools to Spark Culinary Inspiration #10" by @rossnenye
| What is the difference between a saucepan and a pot? What 5 examples can you basically do with each of them? |
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The major difference between a Saucepan and a pot is in the size. The Pot is bigger than the Sauce pan in size.
| Saucepan |
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- Warming leftovers
It can be used to heat up leftover food.
- Boiling water
It can be used to boil water for making semovita, Eba e.t.c.
- Frying
It can be used for deep frying for food like yam, potatoes, chin chin, buns, and peanut. It can also be used shallow frying for eggs, pancakes etc.
- Vegetables
It can be used to Cook or fry Vegetables.
| Pot |
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- Simmering meats
It is used for tendering meat.
- Steaming
It can be used for cooking steamed food like moi moi.
- Cooking Soup and stew
It is used for cooking varieties of soup like Okra, Ogbono, bitterleaf e.t.c.
- Warming leftovers
It can also be used for heating leftover foods.
- Baking
Cooking pot can also be used to improvise Oven for baking.
- Cooking rice and Pasta
It can be used to Cook white Pasta or rice.
| Over the week, you must have prepared some nice dishes, can you share with us some of these meals and their recipes. |
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One of the meals I made last week was Jollof rice, of course there is no week without rice in every Nigerian home.
| Ingredients for Jollof rice |
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- Rice
- Crayfish
- Tomato
- Groundnut oil
- Meat
- Onions
- Pepper
- Salt
- Seasoning cubes
| Recipe for Jollof rice |
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Wash the rice, add it to the pot and parboil for 10 minutes.
Wash again and set it aside after parboiling it.
Wash, slice and blend your tomatoes.
To a pot, add groundnut oil and heat it up.
Add sliced onions to it, fry until it's crystal then add tomatoes and fry for awhile.
Add blended crayfish and fry together.
Add the meat stock, enough water to cook the rice, seasoning cubes and salt to taste.
Turn off the heat when the water dry off, taste for salt and stir
Your delicious Jollof rice is ready.
| Hot or cold food which do you prefer? Share your reasons. |
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I prefer hot food to cold one because it brings out the taste in food, and according to research it also digests easily in the body.
| Are there any kind of food that you prefer not to eat? Tell us about it. |
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Yes as human being we all have likes and dislikes which includes food and myself not an exception. I hate Okra and Ogbono soup. I'm someone that gets easily irritated and because of the slimy nature of these two soups, I dislike them.
Another food I dislike is Porridge beans, maybe because we ate it alot while growing up.
Thanks for reading through my post, I invite @echuku, @chilaw and @ukpono to participate in this contest.
Cc:
@ninapenda
Your dislikes food is my favorite food, oh wahoo 😲, it shows a real perspective of human, we all are different both in everything.
Meanwhile, your step by step process if cooking Jellof Rice is super, simple and fast. Very true now in Nigeria barely a home passed a week without cooking Rice. It is not our fault, only God will help us out of this situation.
Hello, it is the same in my country, Venezuela. There is no week without rice in every venezuelan house. I will follow your step by step process in cooking Jellof rice. As @bela90 says it is simple and fast. So I have learnt a new food recipe from your country. Greetings.