Chef of the Week – Rumi Ighofose @Rum_Bug

Fried Rice with Soy Sauce

INGREDIENTS

1 cup of white rice

Soy sauce to taste

Vegetable oil

Mixed Vegetable

Cooked Shrimps

Chicken

6 Knorr cubes

Curry

Thyme

Salt

Seasoning salt

Bay leaves

Crushed peppers (the cute flaky red ones) 

White Onions

Garlic Cloves

1. Wash the Chicken and season with curry, thyme, salt, knorr cubes and cut onions into it. Leave to boil.
2. In another pot wash rice with hot water to remove all the excess starch. Add salt, 1 knorr cube to give the rice taste and a little curry for color or turmeric if you prefer. (Same thing in my opinion). Don’t boil for too long, we don’t want our rice all mushy and soggy 
3. Cut up some onions and garlic and toss them in a wok with some hot oil for some flavor (smells amazing)
4. When you can smell it, add the mixed vegetables (I usually pick out the long green ones, have no idea what they are.lol) 2 bay leaves, crushed flaky peppers and the cooked shrimps and season to taste using all the ingredients mentioned above.
5. Add some soy sauce and cover the wok to let it simmer and a little chicken stock if you desire.
6. The chicken should be soft by now, so take it out of the pot and stick it in the oven to grill on low heat.
7. Drain the excess water from the rice and rinse it a little to remove any starch that might still be left in.
8. Add rice to the mixed veggie sauce and mix thoroughly. Let it simmer for about 5-10 minutes and we are done! Don’t forget to take the chicken out of the oven. 

   
   

   
   

   Ayamatse (designer stew)

   INGREDIENTS

   1 green pepper bell

   Beef 20 – 30 pieces

   4 red scotch Bonnet peppers

   Garlic cloves

   Palm oil

   Vegetable oil

   1 purple onion

   Curry

   Adobo seasoning with pepper

   Thyme

   Knorr cubes

   Salt

   1. Wash the meat and season with curry, thyme, salt, knorr cubes and cut onions and garlic into it. Leave to boil.
   2. Cut up green pepper, garlic cloves, bonnet peppers with seeds and remaining garlic cloves.
   3. Put them in the blender and blend(obviously lol)…You want to blend it in such a way that I comes out rough and chunky, so don’t blend it for too long cause itd go smooth.
   4. The meat should be soft now, so put in the oven to get a little brown.
   5. In a pot, put a mix of palm oil and vegetable oil and let it get very hot.

   Tip : This is where you open the windows and turn on the fans so the smoke detectors don’t go off.

   6. When the oil is hot enough, (the palm oil will look darker) add in the blended chunky stuff lol and let it boil for about 30 minutes.
   7. Add seasoning to taste (i.e. Salt, Curry, knorr, adobo, thyme) and then add the meat. Leave to simmer for a bit and its ready.
   8. Serve with pounded yam or rice…I went with rice. 

      
      

      Stir fry rotini

      INGREDIENTS

      Rotini (this is my fave type of pasta)

      1 red pepper bell

      1 Green pepper bell

      1 yellow pepper bell

      1 white onion

      2 garlic cloves

      1 scotch bonnet pepper

      Chicken breasts

      Knorr

      Curry

      Salt

      Dry pepper

      Thyme

      Seasoning Salt

      Soy sauce

      1. Clean the chicken breast and add curry, thyme, knorr cubes and salt. Cut a bit of onions into it and leave to boil.
      2. I know this is weird > but wash the pasta.lol..i do that you don’t have to. Add a cap of oil, a cube of knorr and some salt and leave to boil.
      3. Cut up all three-pepper bells into little cubes and put in a bowl.
      4. Cut the onions, bonnet pepper and garlic and put in a diff bowl.
      5. When the chicken is cooked, cut it into cubes and put in a bowl too.
      6. And when the pasta is done too, rinse with cold water and leave in a strainer.
      7. In a wok, put some oil in and let it get hot, add in the onion, garlic and bonnet pepper and let cook.
      8. Then throw in the chicken pieces and colored sweet peppers
      9. Add the spices mentioned above and the soy sauce and some chicken stock and leave to simmer.
      10. The add the rotini in bit by bit and mix all the stuff together properly. Leave to simmer.