Chapati recipe

Make 5 chapatis

Prep time: 30 minutes         Cooking time: 90 second each Chapati

Ingredients

500g   All-purpose flour or whole wheat flour

100 ml of warm water

2 to 3 tablespoons vegetable oil

½ tsp of salt or to taste

Video recipe on How to make Chapati

Direction

Step1:  In a large bowl add the half of the water (50ml) and the salt. Stir until the salt dissolve

Step2: Add the flour in the salted water and use your hand to mix well. Then add the vegetable oil and mix well.

Step3:  Gradually pour the remaining water on flour mixture while mixing until the dough form a ball and is soft. You dough should not be sticking to your hand at all. If the dough is sticking add a little more flour or if it is too dry add a bit of water.

Step4: Transfer the dough on your kitchen counter and knead it for 10 minutes. You movement should be fast and energetic. When you finish kneading your dough, it should be smooth, soft and elastic if it is not knead again.

Kneading the dough is very important if you don’t want the chapatti to become hard.

Step5: Pour a generous amount of vegetable oil on your hand and divide the dough into 5 small balls. Then cover with a napkin and let them rest for 15to 20 minutes.

Step6: Use a rolling pan to flatten the dough balls into a round shape until quite thin. if the dough is sticking to the rolling pan sprinkle  with a little bit of  flour.

Step7: Heat a non stick pan on medium high heat and add the chapati. Wait for 45 second or till you see bubbles over the top, then flip  and cook the other side. You can brush the chapattis with vegetable oil on top. The cooking time should not exceed 2 minutes. Remove and cook the remaining until done.

You can served your Chapati immediately with a nice stew or you can store it for later. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

Other East African  Chapati Recipe That you Might Like……….  

Chapati Recipe from food.com

Allrecipes.com Chapati

Tasteoftanzania Chapati recipe

Here Chapati explained from Wikipedia

Afang Soup Recipe

Serve: 2

Time: 40 min

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups Okazi leaves/ Afang leaves / Eru, washed and finely hopped

Below you will find a  picture of the leaves

400g beef or cow skin, cubed

2 tablespoons ground crayfish

1 onion, sliced

Spring onion, chopped

1 smoked fish, bones removed

½ cup Periwinkles, optional

1 ½ cups water leaves or spinach, washed and chopped

150 ml palm oil or to taste

2 bouillon cubes

Salt, to taste

3 cups water

Afang Soup Video Recipe

Direction:

Step1: Add the meat in a pot with one cup of water. Add a bouillon cube and cook for 30 minutes or until the beef is tender. More water can be added if necessary.

Step 2: When the beef is tender, add in the spinach or water leaves and 2 cups of water.  Add the onions and spring onions, then let simmer 15 minutes.

Step3: Add the Eru/ Okazi leaves you can if you want blend the leaves in a food processor before adding in the sauce. Stir the whole together and pour in the palm oil. Add the chilies or any hot pepper and cook for 5 more munites.

Step4: Add in the ground crayfish and  the smoked fish. This is time to also add the periwinkles. Salt and add chili powder to your taste, then reduce the heat and cook on low for 10 minutes.

When it is ready served FUFU, Gari or pounded yam. You can even serve with rice.

 Other recipes for Afang Soup that you might like………..

AvartsyCooking Afang Soup Recipe

OnlineNigeria Afang Soup

Afang Soup recipe from allNigerianrecipes

Egg stew recipe:

Serve: 1

Time:  20 min

Ingredients:

1 egg

2 tomatoes, diced

1 onion, sliced

2 garlic gloves, chopped

1 bouillon cube

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Salt and black pepper, to taste

Egg Stew Video recipe

Direction:

Step1: Heat the vegetable oil and add the onion, garlic, bouillon cube and black pepper. Stir fry until the onion is soft.

Step 2: Add the diced tomatoes with 2 drops of water. Cook on low heat for about 10 minutes.

Step3: Beat the egg and pour in the tomato sauce.  Cook for 1 minute and stir the whole together.

Salt and pepper to your taste.

Serve with boiled potatoes and enjoy!!!!!!!!!

Other egg stew recipe that you might like…………..

Nigerian egg stew from allnigerianfood

Egg stew from vahrehvah.com

Moyin Moyin Recipe

Makes up to 5

Ingredients:

1 and ½ cups black eyed peas

5 hard boiled eggs

1 small onion, chopped

½ cup ground shrimp or crayfish

½ tsp chili pepper or to taste

1 bouillon cube or Maggi Cube

½ cup vegetable oil

3 tbsp tomato stew or tomato sauce

½ tsp curry powder

½ tsp thyme

1 cup water

Salt, to taste

Optional: cooked fish, smoked fish, cooked meat, aubergines (eggplant) cubed, Spring onion.

Moin Moin Video recipe:

Direction:

Step1:  Soak the beans overnight and peel to remove the skin. If you don’t know how to remove the skin read my recipe for Akara.

Removing the bean skins is a little bit time consuming, you can skip that step by using bean flour instead of dried beans.

Step2: In a food processor or blender, add onion, ground crayfish, chili pepper, tomato stew, bouillon cube and 2 drops of water. Blend until smooth.

Step3:  In the same food processor add the black eyed peas.  Gradually the peas with drops of water and blend until smooth.

Step4: Pour the mixture in a large bowl and season with salt, thyme, curry powder, oil and mix well.

Step5: Spoon the batter mixture in your container. Make sure not to fill it up because it will rise up once it starts to cook. Add a hard boiled egg in each container. This is also the time to add the optional ingredients

You can use aluminum small aluminum or plastic bowl or you can just fold and use aluminum foil.  Cooking the moyin moyin in aluminum foil is extremely fast.

Tips: If you are using plastic container, make sure to grease the bottom of the container before adding the mixture. That will make it easier to remove when it is done.

Step6:  Add water enough water in a pot and place a steamer on top.

Then place fill container on the steamer cover with aluminum foil and replace the lid. Steam for 40 min, check occasionally the water level.

Tip: Use a tooth stick or a fork to stick in the middle of the moi moi if it comes out clean then it is ready.

Let it cool down for 10 min and serve.

Enjoy!

You might also like………….

Moyin Moyin from onlineNigeria

Eba Recipe

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

2 cups  Gari (you can get the Gari at your African store)

3 to 4 cups Boiling Water (depending on the consistency you want)

Salt (optional)

Eba Video recipe

Directions:

1-      In a deep and large bowl add the boiling water.

2-      Then sprinkle the Gari in the hot water.

3-      Quickly mix with a wooden spoon until it form a soft  dough.

4-      Add a little bit of salt if you want.

Serve with your soup and Enjoy!!

Other Recipes for Eba that you might like………………..

Eba recipe from Allrecipes.com

Eba from Celtnet

Egusi  Soup Recipe

Serves: 4

Ingredients
1 cup Ground Egusi

½ cup palm oil

Dried fish, smoked fish or stock fish, to taste

200g Beef or goat meat, chopped into small size

150 g chicken (optional)

2 onions, sliced

2 gloves garlic, chopped

½ tsp thyme leaves

1 tsp curry powder

1 bouillon cube or Maggi

1 large tomato, mashed or blended

1 tsp tomato paste

Fresh chili pepper or chili powder, to taste

Spinach leaves, pumpkin or bitter leaf, (or any leaf)

1 tbsp ground Crayfish or ground dried shrimp

½ tsp chili powder

Salt, to taste

Water

Egusi soup Video recipe:

Direction:

Step 1: In a cooking pot add the meat and assorted meat (chicken or cow skin), then season with one sliced onion, the chopped garlic, thyme leaves, curry powder and the bouillon cube.

Step 2: Cover the pot with enough water (around 2 cups) and cook for 30 min or until the meat is almost tender.

Step3: Then add the dried fish in pot, should have soak the dried fish in water for at least 20 min. Cook for another 10 min and set aside.

Step 4: In another saucepan, heat the palm oil and add the remaining onion, mashed tomato and tomato paste and cook for 15 min.

Step 5: Add the ground crayfish or shrimp and the chili powder, stir fry for few minutes.

Step 6: In a bowl of water add the ground Egusi and mix well to make a paste.

Step 7: Pour the Egusi paste in the sauce and stir fry for 10 minutes on very low heat.

Step 8: Pour the cooked meat in the saucepan and cook for another 15 min. To finish add salt to your taste.

When it’s ready, you can serve with gari (Eba) or pounded yam. Enjoy!!!!!

Other Egusi soup recipes that you might like……

Egusi soup from allnigerianrecipes

Egusi soup recipe at africanfoods

Egusi stew from avartsycooking