How To Prepare Eggplant Stew

Eggplant is a rich vegetable and can be cooked or baked in different ways. In this recipe, it's cooked along with bell peppers.

Here are the ingredients needed;

- 2 or 3 eggplants
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 1 leek
- 1 onion
- seasoning cube
- Thyme
- Salt
- Pepper
- Olive oil.
- Any meat or fish you desire to use

Preparations;

STEP 1
Cut eggplant, red and yellow bell peppers in big cubes,
- Put them in a pot and add a glass of water
- Cover to boil for 4 to 5 minutes
- Then drain off water in a clean bowl
- In the pot, use a wooden spatula to mash eggplant and bell peppers to melt.


STEP 2
- In a pan, heat oil, add sliced onions and leeks let heat for a minute
- Pour in your mashed eggplant and bell peppers
- Add, salt, pepper, thyme and seasoning cube
- You can add any cooked meat or fish of your choice
- Add abit of the vegetable water you stored aside previously,
- Cover to cook for 5mins.
Add vegetable water continously if too dried.

You can serve with rice, plantain, yam or potatoes.

Buon Appetito 

How To Prapare Couscous Light

Couscous is a popular dish from Morocco and North Africa. It is well known and appreciated worldwide. Couscous is a traditional Berber dish of semolina (granules of durum wheat) which is cooked by steaming. It is traditionally served with a meat or vegetable stew spooned over it.

Though, in this blog, i am illustrating how you can make couscous a light dish and enjoy it all the same.
Here are the ingredients i used;
- Couscous
- Carrots chopped
- Cougerts chopped
- Egg plant chopped
- Half Onion chopped or sliced
- Olive oil
- Half seasoning cube
- Salt
- Pepper

Preparations:

- Heat oil in a pan and add onions to melt
- Add vegetables with a pinch of salt
- Add a little amount of water and cover to steam for 4 minutes
- Add seasoning cube, pepper ( you can add any cooked meat or fish of your choice at this point) cover to steam for 3 minutes
- Add abit of water  if too dried and cook in low flames.

In another pan,

- Heat oil and add couscous stir  for a few seconds to make it crispy
- Add little amount of water and stir with a woody fork
- Add salt and steam for a minute.

Serve couscous and vegetables together and add olive oil.
Remember that this is just a light couscous dish.

Buon Appetito

Fusilli alla mediterranea

Fusilli is a type of pasta and fusilli alla mediterranea is an italian recipe which is especially prepare during summer. It is a mediterranean meal because it is a pasta cooked light with vegetable and olive oil.
Italy is well known for its exquisite meals and here is one menue i will like to share with you.

Here are the ingredients;

• Spiral pasta(Fusilli)
• Fresh tomatoes, chopped in cubes
• 1 garlic
• Olive oil
• Few capers
• Handful of chopped basil leaves
• Handful of chooped Parsley leaves
• 1 tsp  red / black peperflakes
• 1 /2 Courgette sliced
• Mozzarella cheese chopped in cubes
• Half cup of lemon juice
• Salt

Preparations;

-   In a bowl, put your chopped tomatoes, basil, parsley, mozzarella
-  Add a bit of lemon juice, salt and 2 tsp of olive oil mix and live to settle.
-  Pour Olive oil in a pan heat a bit, then add garlic, capers and Courgette.
-  Add a bit of salt and pepper flakes, with abit of already cooking pasta water and live in medium heat.
-  Cook for 2 mins and switch off heat.

-  Meanwhile, put a pot of water on the fire to boil add salt and put the fusilli let cook for 5-7 mins.
When it is cooked,
-   add 1 cooking spoon of pasta water to the pan of garlic, capers and courgette, filter the remaining pasta water away and add pasta to pan.
- Now add your tomatoes mixture from the bowl to the pasta add abit of olive oil, and the remaining of lemon juice and cook for 2 mins or till thick to your taste.

Buon appetito

How To Prepare Pollo all'Arlecchino "

Celeriac is also known as celery roots and very low in calories. 100 g root holds just 42 calories. It contains some health benefiting plant-nutrients, minerals, vitamins, and dietary fiber.
Celeriac is very a good source of vitamin K. 100 g root provides about 41 µg or 34% of recommended daily intake. Vitamin-K help increases bone mass by promoting osteotrophic activity in the bones.

The root is a very good source of  essential minerals such as phosphorus, iron, calcium, copper, and manganese.

Ingredients for Chicken, celeriac stew;

1. Celeriac (Sedano rapa in italian)
2. 1 red bell pepper
3. 1 yellow bell pepper
4. 1 courgette
5. 1 egg plant
6. A glass of chicken broth
7. Half glass of white wine
8. Black pepper (optional)
9. Onion
10. Boneless chicken breast or full chicken
11. Olive oil
12. Salt

 Preparations;
-   Take the half yellow pepper  and one red pepper remove seeds and chop in small cubes.
-   Do same to courgette and egg plant
-   Peel off skin of Celeriac (Sedano rappa) Wash and chop in smaller cubes too.

-   Now heat oil in a pan and add all cubed vegetables, use medium flames add salt and stir till vegetables are cooked then turn off heat.

-   Slice breast in 2 parts and put some of the cooked vegetables in the middle and either sew together or use tooth picks to pin the edges.
-   For chich with skin and bones, just cut in pieces and cook along woth the vegetales.
-   In another pan, with 2 tsp of olive oil in medium heat, gently put chicken ,sprinkle black pepper, salt and cook till both sides are brown, (turn gently).
-  Add Chicken broth (you can put a cube of chicken seasoning or maggi in water and heat abit to get home made chicken broth).
-  Add white wine cook in medium heat for 20-25mins, then add the remaining vegetables and cook for 5mins.
   

This meal is more of celeriac which  contains some B-complex vitamins such as pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin.  and many poly-acetylene anti-oxidants such as falcarinol, falcarindiol, panaxydiol, and methyl-falcarindiol.

You can serve with rice

Chicken recipe; Chicken Escalopes with Mushrooms (Scaloppine di Pollo Con Funghi)

Chicken Escalopes with mushrooms is a recipe i lent to cook in Italy. It is a delicious italian family meal and also recomended for get together parties. Chicken escalopes is easy to prepare and won't empty your pocket to shop for it's ingredients.

Here are the ingredients needed;

Skinless and boneless Chicken breast (beef can also be used instead)

Mushrooms

White wine

3 tsp of butter

2tsp of olive oil(optional)

1 tsp of flour

Fresh rosemary with sage (leaves)

Green olives sliced (Optional)

1 Garlic (sliced or in bulb)

Chopped Parsley

Salt

Nutmeg (Optional)

Pepper

Preparation; 

- Clean and wash mushrooms in cold water to get dirt and sand off.

- Then slice the chicken breast in flat parts and coat with black peper (or red pepper) sage from fresh rosemary, grate in a small amount of nutmeg and flour.

- In a pan, add olive oil, add garlic let it heat then remove garlic and sliced mushrooms. - -- When mushrooms start to melt add wine and let evaporate for a couple of minutes

 - Then add chopped parsley, salt and cook for 10minutes if sauce thickens during cooking, add vegetable of chicken stock.

- Then in another pan sauté in 2tsp of butter add 1tsp of oil so it melts without burning and add the coated chicken in medium heat to cook chicken soft.

-  Let Chicken get brown and add sliced onion and half cup of white wine let cook for about 15mins if sauce thickens during cooking add more white wine then add mushrooms and olives and cook for 5-7mins.

Ready to serve.

It is a light meal and good for the winter period.

Buon Appetito