Food for the day: Nigerian fried rice

Nigerian fried rice has become the most popular and after sought in big parties in Nigeria. Unlike other fried rice, Nigerian fried rice is prepared by stir frying seasoned parboiled rice with mixture of vegetables and diced meat/chicken/turkey...

Ingredients

• 500g parboiled rice
• Chicken/turkey stock
• 70g diced chicken/turkey/beef
• 3 cooking spoonful of vegetable oil 
• 3 whole eggs
• 3 handful of diced carrot
• 1 handful of green beans
• 1 handful of green peas
• 2 handful of green bell pepper
• 1 medium sized onion
• 2 tablespoonful of curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoonful of black pepper
• 2 stock cube (Maggi)
• Salt

Cooking Method

Cook the chicken/turkey/beef and fry. Pour the chicken/turkey/beef stock into a strainer to remove tiny bones and any other particles. Get it aside and for later use.

Slice onion, wash and dice other vegetables (carrot, green beans, green peas, green bell pepper) Place the veggies in separate bowl and pour hot water. Leave it for 5minutes and set aside.

Cook rice for 15minutes and sieve to drain water. Boil the reserve chicken/turkey/beef stock and add small water if it won't be enough to cook rice. The water should be of same level with the rice.

Add parboiled rice to stick when it's boiling. Also add stock cubes (Maggi), curry powder, garlic powder, onion and salt. Leave it to cook on medium heat until it's well cook.

Break eggs, whisk and set aside. Heat up frying pan, add little vegetable oil, add carrot, green peas, green beans, green bell pepper and diced chicken/turkey/beef, stir fry for 1minute and then add black pepper and 1 stock beef (Maggi). Mix together with the whisked egg. Mix thoroughly to avoid eggs from sticking together. Add rice and stir fry for 10minutes.

Now your Nigerian fried rice is ready to be served with moi moi, fried plantain' fried or grilled chicken/turkey/beef etc