Cooking vlog 12|| Cook Palm oil rice

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Hello, Steemians welcome to my cookingvlog today.

Today, I cooked MTN African Rice a red colour rice, cooked with palm oil, spicy, and deeply flavorful dish that’s loved across Africa!

This rice recipe is cooked with palm oil, It is commonly seen or cooked in almost every African homes. Another name we give to it is local rice and to get the very best taste of this rice, you'll need to use local rice grains for it.

As you all know, we Africans we have different methods of cooking rice, price is one of the widely eaten food in my country Nigeria and we have different ways of cooking it no matter the the ingredients you can always make your delicious rice any how you want to eat it as long as it is thirsty you always enjoy it.

If you’re new to African cooking, this is the perfect recipe to start with. Come with me let me show you this text recipe of palm oil rice widely known as MTN rice. Let’s get right into it!

You can choose any protein of your choice either beef, fish or chicken.

Therefore when it comes to protein choice you are free to choose anyone that is available and affordable for you to me I choosed this fish.


Ingredients


  • Rice
  • Pepper
  • Onion
  • Seasoning
  • Palm oil
  • Crayfish
  • Fish

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Prepared my ingredients and set aside

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Wash and seasoned the fish aside for steaming


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Parboiled rice and set aside for cooking


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Seasoned the fish and steam it to taste


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After steaming the fish, add the rice, add other ingredients and a little water to it.


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I added palm oil to it and allow it to boil


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After 5 minutes, add the fish, onion and to the pot, allow it to simmer for 3 mins


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Then the rice is done ✅ I garnish it with cucumber 🥒 as seen in the picture


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To make it have a nice taste, please avoid stirring too much to prevent the rice from getting soggy. Use medium heat to allow it cooked slowly and the rice will be tasty and soft.



Watch my video as I prepared it

So tell me do you enjoy this recipe? I would like to know then I want to encourage you give it a try believe me if you have children living with you that will really like it.

Please if you notice I always create content of food that one can easily cook with low budget but a very healthy meal so it's healthy on low budget.

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I love this recipe so mush i have always love cooking palm oil rice which is called (ofop) in my native language though i don't use this method in cooking mine am going to try this recipe and see how it will taste although i trust it will come out really nice judging from the looks, thank you for sharing your delicious recipes.

Awwn I now know another name of this palm oil rice (ofop) it was really nice, go ahead and prepare it using this recipe you will like it.

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