Friday, 9 October 2015

Grand mama rice with beef Cutlets



Grand mama rice as I call it or granny rice whichever way you choose to call it is a native rice that has the looks of jollof rice but it's very different from Jollof rice. I discovered grand mama rice way back in the 90's when a neighbor of mine regularly makes it for her kids and when I asked her what kind of style of cooking it was, she'd say it's grandmama rice, it doesn't require much effort just mix the ingredients and voila, you have the delicious rice and so I decided to try it out and got stuck to it.
Let me give you my recipe on how to make grandmama rice

Ingredients
1derica cup of rice for 5 servings
Smoked fish 2 (I use sharwa or titus)
Pepper (ata orodo)
Onions
Iru
Palm oil or groundnut oil (any wworks)
Cray fish or prawn (optional)
Meat (any of your choice)

Method
1. Wash your pepper and onions together (enough to suit the amount of food you are making, I used 50naira worth for 1derica and sometimes more because I love my rice hot and spicy) blend with a food processor preferably the manual not the electirc

2. Wash your Iru (locust beans) I used 100naira worth, Iru gives the food the native tasten wash thoroughly and ensure no stone particle is remaining

3. Wash your rice and keep side

4. Wash your fish,prawns or crayfish and set aside

5. Set the pot on fire, pour a considerable amount of palm oil(what I used for this), pour your grounded pepper and onions stir, add the Iru, salt to taste and seasoning of your choice, stir, add your fish shredded, prawns or crayfish and stir, allow to fry for some minutes then pour water enough to make the rice, add your rice, stir and leave to cook

6. Once cooked, you can add curry leaves (optional) before bringing down the food from the cooker, mix properly and serve

7. It's advisable to eat it with a glass of fresh juice to cool down the hot spicy pepper lol

NB- the food don't necessarily have to be hot and spicy, you can make it less however way you want it
Happy cooking,send me your pictures we you try it out! facebook.com/kamchesseneterprise