"Local Food Competition / Steem Activity Club" By @gracyakan

Good to meet everyone here,hoping we are all fine and safe. I'm delighted to join this contest and also grateful to @steemactivity and admin of this amazing community Steem Activity Club for organizing this contest of local food competition, welldone for keeping us busy.

I'm from Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria we have many local food.
Local food is one of those things that helps in identification of where someone belongs and culture of a person.

My local food

Vegetable rice

Condiments

• Rice

• vergetable

• Grayfish

• Fish

• Onion

• Salt

• Oil

• Maggi

• Perper

• water

In cooking vergetable rice you will first of all wash and parboil rice, then you put all the condement in the pot,put water and put the parboiled rice and cook until the rce is soft and the water dry you put the slice vergetable and onions and mix it with the rice and turn off the fire so that the vergetable will be fresh. Boom vergetable rice is ready for eating.

This vergetable rice can be eaten as breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is one of the food that is being given to the in-laws during marriage introduction, people of all ages can eat, it can be given to the baby from 6month of age as supplementary diet.

Nutrients contents of vergetable rice

• It's highly nutritious and rich in protein, carbohydrate,fat and oil, vitamins, calories, fibre, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, manganese.

Benefits of vergetable rice

• It controls blood sugar

• It reduces cholesterol

• It maintain healthy weight

• It decrease the risk of stroke and heart disease

• It promote digestion

• It prevent haemorrhoid

• It contains antioxidant and fight against free radicals

I invite @vickydear and @goodybest to participate in this contest.

Thanks for reading

Cc
@steemactivity