Nigerian Millet Swallow

 

Ingredients

Millet Flour 1 and 1/2 cups

2 cups of water

Direction

1. Sieve the Millet flour and set aside
2. Add a pinch of salt to 2 cups water and bring to  boil
3. Add about half a cup of room temperature water to 3/4 cup of millet flour, mix till fully dissolved
4. Pour the millet mixture into the boiling water and stir. Allow to cook for few minutes or until the colour changes slightly showing it is cooked
5. Add about 3/4 cups dry millet powder to it and stir continuously    Note: The quantity of the flour you add at this stage depends on how thick or soft you want your millet
6. Keep stirring as you allow to cook for few minutes
7. Wrap immediately in food wrapper

Servings: 1
Serve with any Nigerian soup

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Nigerian Beans Porridge

 Ingredients

1.       Honey Beans (Ewa Oloyin) 2 cups
2.       Habanero Pepper 2
3.      Tomatoes 2 Medium size
4.       Onion, Half a Medium size
5.     Palm Oil 1/4 cup
6.    1 Seasoning cube
7.     Salt to taste

Direction

1.  Pick the beans to remove any debris
2. Wash the beans  and transfer into a clean pot of water
3.  Cover and allow to boil
4.    Remove the water from the beans when the water starts to boil
5.   Put fresh water and start cooking
6.  Add onion and salt, cover and cook till beans is tender
7.   Add the blended Pepper when the beans is tender
8.  Add Palm oil, ground crayfish, seasoning cube and any other seasoning of choice
9.   Cover and allow everything to cook for about 5 mins
10.    When its cooked you can serve or...
11.    You may mash the beans - this step is optional though good if you will be serving kids
12.   Allow to cook for about another 2 mins and serve.

You can serve with bread, yam, rice or any other carbohydrate of choice