I've heard of and seen many guys who do not know how to cook even indomie! Now that's not very good! Who's gonna help your wife cook when she's heavily pregnant?
To me, the art of cooking is for all. Both male and female. Personally I love cooking! Yea! And I'm proud of it. Lol.
Today I'll be teaching you guys how to prepare a simple fried rice! Grab ur pen and paper let's get started!
Ingredients
Rice - 3 cigar cups | 750g
Vegetable Oil
Chicken (whole chicken or chicken drumsticks)
Cow Liver (100g)
Plain Yellow Curry Powder – (1 tablespoon)
Green Beans (a handful)
5 medium sized carrots
Salt (to taste)
Onions - 3 medium sized bulbs
Seasoning – 3 Maggi/Knorr cubes & Thyme (1
teaspoon)
Before you cook the Fried Rice
Cut the vegetables
Wash all the vegetables to be used in cooking the
fried rice. Scrape and cut the carrots into tiny cubes.
Cut the green beans into small pieces of about 0.7cm
long. Soak these 2 vegetables separately in hot water
for about 5 minutes and drain. Cut 1 bulb of onion.
Set all these aside.
Prepare the liver and chicken
1. Cook the cow liver till done and cut into tiny pieces.
To save time and energy, you can cook the liver with
the chicken as I did in the video below.
2. Cut the whole chicken into pieces and cook with the
seasoning and 2 bulbs of onions (chopped). When
done, grill in an oven or deepfry with vegetable oil.
This gives it a golden look which is more presentable
especially when you are entertaining guests.
Cooking Directions
1. Parboil the rice. Wash the
parboiled rice and put in a sieve so all the water
drains out.
2. Pour the chicken stock into a sieve to remove all
traces of onions, thyme etc used in cooking the
chicken. Pour the stock into a pot and set to boil.
Once the water boils, add the parboiled rice. Also,
add 1 tablespoon of plain yellow curry powder, then
add salt to taste. The plain yellow curry powder is
merely for colouring so should not contain chilli.
3. The water level should be slightly less than the level of
the rice; at most it should be at the same level as the
rice. This is to ensure that all the water dries up by
the time the rice is cooked. Stir the contents; cover
the pot and leave to cook on medium heat. This way
the rice does not burn before the water dries up.
4. Once the water has dried up, check that the rice is
cooked. Perfect fried rice is one that the grains are
separated from one another, resistant to the bite but
not hard.
5. Now, transfer the rice to a casserole dish or another
pot to help cool it down quickly. This is essential to
keep the grains from sticking to each other. If left in
the original hot pot, the rice will continue to cook and
eventually stick together.
At this point, it is advisable to divide the vegetables
into say 4, 5 or even 6 equal parts. The rice will be
fried in batches so this number depends on the
quantity of rice you can comfortably fry in the pan or
pot. Also, divide the cooked rice and the diced cow
liver into the same number of equal parts.
6. Now pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a
frying pan. This quantity of oil should be such that it
would be absorbed by 1 part of the cooked rice and 1
part each of the vegetables. When the oil is hot, add 1
part of diced onions and stir for 10 seconds, followed
by 1 part of diced cow liver, one part each of the diced
vegetables, then 1 part of cooked rice.
7. Add more salt if necessary. More curry powder may
also be added at this stage if you need to touch up on
the colour. Stir till all the ingredients have mixed well
and transfer to a dry pot. Repeat this for the
remaining batches of the ingredients.
The fried rice is ready. Serve with fried chicken. You
can add Moi Moi or Nigerian salad.
Try this out and thank me by inviting me to your house to have a taste... Lol!
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