Cooking isn't one of my most spoken of traits. In actuality, in a house of 3 girls, it's an activity that I rarely do.
Regardless there are times when there's no one at home and I have to on the gas and do something edible at least.
That's exactly what happened today as everyone went to school or work and poor Seki was the only one to wake up by 11am in the morning to a cold stove, empty pot and growling belle.
I took a quick glance through the cabinet and freezer and decided to whip up a quick 10-20 minutes meal, and since I was the one cooking....
Why not take some pics and make a post while at it?
After a quick itenary check, I decided to go through with the Nigerian students favorite.
Jollof Spaghetti
Please excuse my sloppy photography, sleep eyes
Jollof Spaghetti is a sidestep from the more popular Jollof rice, as the sauce preparation is the same but the rice is switched for pasta.(spaghetti)
Although in this tutorial, I already had my sauce pre-made, as there was a leftover sauce from the Jollof rice made the previous week.
So with all that sorted out, let's get cooking.....
Ingredients 📝
- Bukka Sauce (Remainder Jollof Sauce)
- Tomato Paste 🍅
- Salt 🧂
- Spaghetti 🍝
- Onions 🧅
- Egg 🥚
- Vegetable Oil 🛢️
Procedure ♨️
First, we put the spaghetti in a pot and let is boil while we're preparing our sauce.
(If you decide to eat this with an egg, it's best you put the egg to boil now too.)
Next, we get our already made jollof sauce and tomato paste.
These two, since they are perishable, are usually refrigerated and thus they're frozen. So they have to be warmed a bit.
The Bukka Sauce would be microwaved, while the tomato paste sachet was put untop of the cover of the pot of boiling spaghetti.
With those two being warmed, we go on to slice our onions and warm our oil to fry our spaghetti sauce.
Now the oil that's usually used is colourless vegetable oil, but my pan looks as though I used red palm oil.
Well the reason for that is because the females already created Jollof Spaghetti for breakfast before I woke up and they left none for me.
Hence since it's the same pan and pot, I simply prepared mine untop.
By the time the oil is hot enough, you turn your Bukka Sauce in, then add your tomato paste and onions.
You stir this for a while, making sure to watch and stir the sauce until it becomes dry.
By the sauce drying I mean the vegetable oil gets absorbed by the sauce, making the sauce to be more distinct and pronounced from the vegetable oil.
Remember to add some salt and spicing to taste.
The Jollof sauce, depending on the spiciness of your Bukka Sauce, might already be tasty enough for you.
All in all, the amount of salt and spices added should be according to your discretion.
When you're sure your Sauce is ready.
You add it to to your spaghetti, which by now should be almost done.
As it's added, you simply mix the sauce in and put the spaghetti in low heat so the sauce boils in.
Make sure it's mixed in well, so there's no spot that's all white without sauce is left out.
When you're sure it's been mixed well, you leave it on heat for at least 5 mins, so any remaining water can dry up.
With that done, your Jollof Spaghetti is now ready.
You can serve with your boiled egg or with any protein of your choice.
Well, that's the small amount of culinary knowledge that I'll share today.
Seems the flash of my camera didn't capture the main color of the food.
It's meant to be a little bit redder though😢.
It was a cloudy morning 😂
If you've read to this point, you have my thanks and if you do decide to follow my recipe, please I would love to hear your reviews in the comments.
For those who may not have a Jollof rice sauce (Bukka Sauce).
Check this link on how to make it from scratch
- All Images used are mine and taken by me.
- The Video was gotten from YouTube
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