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MY BEEF PILAU RECIPE

January 24, 2017 74 Comments

Hello Everyone,

Pilau is what is on my mind today, I love pilau and always brings back great memories. I try to put it on my menu all the time until my family starts asking for something different then I know it’s time to give it a break. Known for being an Indian or Middle Eastern dish, I got to try my first pilau when I was younger and I’m guessing that was the Kenyan version which I learnt to make and still do the same way I saw back then. I used beef instead of chicken in my pilau but it can also be made into a veggie version. For my beef pilau recipe, you will need;

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CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA RECIPE

December 23, 2016 47 Comments

Hey there,

This week I forgot to specify what kind of meal I was going to cook since my menu only said a rice dish, this is due to my son being a picky eater and loving one thing today and hating it the next day, very normal by the way. So the only meat I had was chicken and decided to make chicken tikka masala. This was sort of me trying out Lorraine Pascale’s recipe minus the spring onions because I had none so I went ahead and just used white onions instead and still had a great result.To make this meal the way I did, you will need,

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MY KACHUMBARI RECIPE

November 28, 2016 No Comments

What’s Kachumbari?

Better known as salsa fresca or pico de gallo depending on where you grew up, we call it kachumbari in Kenya.It’s one of those dishes that can go with anything and just makes me happy. Once you combine it with more spices, you can make it to be your own or even add some meat and other ingredients to make a proper salad. Hope you get to love it as much as I do. For my kachumbari recipe, you will need

Ingredients

2 onions (red or white)
A couple of tomatoes
Raw chillies
1 lemon
Pinch of salt and more for the onions
A bunch of coriander

METHOD

Chop your onions into small pieces and put them in a bowl, pour some water to cover them and add in two tablespoons of salt. (This helps in removing the sharp taste of onions) and place them aside.
Slice up the tomatoes and place them in another bowl along with the chillies also chopped into small pieces.
Put a pinch of salt and mix them together.
After about ten minutes pour the onions into a sieve and run some water through them to rinse out the salt.
Put the onions in the bowl with the tomatoes and mix them up, at this point the colours already start making you smile.
Squeeze one lemon and mix it up again, then chop up the coriander and add that in too.
Now from this point, you can be done and place it the fridge to chill out or you can add some more stuff and make it your own.
I usually add some olive oil black pepper or even some grated carrots either way it will be delicious.

So that’s it my kachumbari recipe and for a quick tip, crush up an avocado mix it in and there you have some guacamole and eat with some chapati on the side, recipe here. Serve and enjoy, do try this out and tell me if you loved it, what do you call this where your from?

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MY SPICY BEANS ON TOAST RECIPE

November 22, 2016 32 Comments

I did not grow up having beans on toast every day, but when we had it, Kenylon beans were the ones I remember and were my best choice. I used to really love the tomato sauce in it, not too sweet but just right. That was until my sister decided to change it and I have been doing it this way ever since. The best part about this recipe is that you can get the ingredients anywhere and its very quick and easy to prepare if you don’t count chopping onions as a chore, then your sorted.This is my spicy beans on toast recipe, you will need;