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chicken_how to prepare and cook kuku kienyeji

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Ingredients .1kg chicken, alive  .3 onions .a bunch of parsley  .10g cooking oil  .3 tomatoes  . salt to taste  Method . Boil the water .To slaughter the chicken you cut the chicken's head(not easy if you haven't done it before. I used to hide everytime my mom used to slaughter a live chicken when I was a child). .Put the chicken in the boiled water to remove the feathers. .Then place it in the jiko to remove the remaining small feathers.  .Then remove the insides of the chicken that is the intestines, heart, gizzard, pancreas,liver, heart  and make sure not to prick the gall bladder when removing the insides because the chicken will be bitter). . Separate the liver from the gallbladder carefully because bile can make your meat bitter.  .Cut and wash the gizzard, heart and liver and throw away the intestines, and gallbladder. .Cut the rest of the meat into small chunks,add some salt to the meat and let it sit for three minutes.  ....

how to make easy beef matoke

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Ingredients .12 green bananas. .31/4kg beef .3 royco cubes .2 big onions .3 big tomatoes .1tps garlic paste .1/2 tps ginger paste .15g cooking oil . salt to taste  Method  . Peel the bananas, wash them and put them in  water with a bowl to prevent them from browning. Note To prevent the bananas from sticking on your hands when peeling apply some oil on your hands before peeling or use polythene gloves.  .Cut the meat into small cubes  .Cut the onions and fry them until golden brown . Add meat to the onions and fry them until fully cooked.  .Add the garlic and ginger paste and fry them for a minute stirring them to prevent them from burning  . Blend the tomatoes and add them to the meat and fry them for a minute. .Add the royco cubes to the meat .Add the bananas to the meat and stir them in and fry them for a minute stirring them to prevent them from burning. .Add salt  .Add water to cover the bananas and boil them on medium heat until ...

how to make healthy Kenyan chapatis _pumpkin chapatis/flat bread

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Ingredients  3tps sugar 1/2tps salt 3 cups wheat flour 2 cups water.  1/2 cup cooking oil  1/4kg pumpkin  1cup self rising flour                       M ethod  1.Peel and cut the pumpkin into small pieces and boil for ten minutes or until it's well cooked. 2.Then mash it and blend or sieve 3.Then put the blended pumpkin in a bowl 4.Mix salt and sugar in some water and add it to the blended pumpkin bowl and stir  5.Add a tablespoon of oil to the blended pumpkin bowl then add the flour and knead adding a little water now and then until you get a dough that is not sticking to your hands. 6. Apply some oil and cover it up for 15 minutes with cling film .  7.Cut the dough into small balls, roll and apply some oil on the rolled ball,then fold them into spring roll ,then form a circular shape coil and place them in a flat surface and cover the rolled oiled coils with a cling film to preve...

Kenyan mukimo/mashed potatoes and beef

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Ingredients 1kg green peas 1 soft green corn  2kgs potatoes 3 big Onions 20g cooking oil Method . Peel the peas and boil until well cooked .Let the pees cool and blend . Boil the maize first to harden because it's difficult to remove the kernels when it's uncooked. .Peel the potatoes  .Fry the onions until golden brown .Add the potatoes and stir them in the fried onions and cover them with a lid to cook for three minutes. .Add the corn to the potatoes and stir them in the potatoes .Add water and cover to cook until all the water has dried .Add the blended peas and mash the potatoes They will have a nice green color. Serve hot with beef, vegetables, legumes, fish etc  I served mine with beef . Healthy benefits of mukimo Green pees are a good source of protein, carbohydrates fiber and minerals . Meat is a high protein diet and corn is a high carbohydrate diet and full of antioxidants. Potatoes have a lot of vitamin C and potassium. 

how to make Kenyan githeri(boiled maize and beans)with kales (sukuma wiki) and avocado.

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Ingredients . 2 1/2 cups rosecoco beans . 2 large green soft maize . 10 cups water  . 4 big potatoes . a bunch of sukuma week or spinach or cabbage .4 carrots  . 2 onions  Method . Wash the beans and put them in the jiko. Don't soak the beans because the nutrients will be lost in the soaked water. .Put a carrot in the boiling beans to reduce acidity. . Boil the beans for one hour and then add some salt to prevent the beans from peeling.add water now and then until it's soft and then add the maize kernels to the beans and boil until it's fully cooked and all the water has dried. It will take approximately three hours.  .Peel the potatoes and carrots. .peel the onions and fry them until golden brown .Add the tomatoes and fry them until soft .cut the sukuma wiki and fry them until soft .Add the potatoes and carrots and fry them for two minutes .Add the cooked githeri and stir then add some royco cubes  Add some water and cook until the water is alm...