Hello Wonderful Chefs!

It's my pleasure to take part in this week's engagement contest, I trust everyone is healthy! Today I will share with you my favorite Ingredient. You know had it been life is as simple as following a recipe then we would be much happier. But unlike food ingredients, life doesn't come the way we want or called it it doesn't give us the standardized ingredients to live in our best and unique way.

I love experimenting with ingredients to create a distinctive taste, and I've discovered one which I hope to pass to my next generations it is a traditional ingredient and its outcome is so tasty 😋 and the aroma is so sweet! Talking about my favorite ingredient I have enough, you know variety is the spice of Life, but
I have a special one which I normally use to cook different types of food like fried rice, jollof rice, noodles, rice and beans, stew, pepper soup, and pottage, etc

^{Some spices that make up my favorite Ingredient}

My favorite Ingredient is Natural spices, it is made up of assorted herbs and spices which include Ginger, garlic, turmeric, cloves, coriander, nutmeg, Shilot onions, cinnamon, and celery, I normally grind everything together to have powder.

^{My favorite Ingredient}

My ingredients are different from others because it's natural, and it comes with numerous health benefits unlike artificial spices that uses preservatives for preservation and it poses so many health risks, natural spices have health benefits like it reduces blood pressure, cure arthritis, reduce heart problem, normalize blood and among all it boosts immunity. You can't have it anywhere because I mixed the herbs and spices I love.

We often used this ingredient to cook in our home
*The ingredients are not expensive, it saves cost than going for the artificial one and it's readily available at our local market. Below is the cost to make 500 grams of the natural spice:

Ingredients	prices in naira	Steem
Dry tumeric	200	2
Dry garlic	100	1
Dry ginger	100	1
Coriander	200	2
Cinnamon	200	2
Shilot onions	200	2
Cloves	100	1
Nutmeg	100	1
Total	1,200	12

I used to prepare different recipes with my favorite ingredient, I used to cook fried rice, chicken Peri Peri, Jellof rice, stew, pottage beans, Rice and beans, and many more! Below is a picture of some meals I've cooked with my favorite Ingredient:

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So friends this is it for today, I hope you like my special ingredient, I will like My friends @eliany @udyliciouz and @inspiracion to share their favorite ingredients with us.