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