Tasty Potato Nuggets

The only ways I knew how to eat  Irish potatoes is when it is made into French fries, boiled and eaten with egg sauce, vegetable sauce and also made as hot pot. When I stumbled upon this recipe online last week, I decided to give it a try. It's just like you are making akara but instead of grinding the potatoes, you grate it just the way you grate  carrots that you use for salad. It will look coarse and not fine. Egg is also added after squeezzing out the water from the grated potatoes, followed by pepper , salt and seasoning of choice. I also added crushed garlic because I love the taste of garlic in fried snacks. Feel free to add the spice that you like but season well with salt to avoid a bland taste. Well enough of the explanation let me take you through the recipe itself.


Potato Nuggets (Hash Browns) Recipe
Cuisine: American
Course: Snack, Breakfast

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Ingredients

- 6 medium Irish potatoes
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 seasoning cube of choice
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 large garlic clove, crushed(optional)

Delicious Banana Pancakes

Banana is one of the fruits that I love and I like it in snacks, ice cream, cakes and pancakes. The best type of banana to be used in this recipe is overripe bananas. The one with dots that the flavour is oozing out each time you pass by the kitchen counter. This give the pancakes it unique sweetness and aroma that is irresistible and you won't stop at one when you start eating.  Even while frying the pancakes the whole kitchen "goes Bananas" with the sweet flavour combined with the vanilla. It's just so inviting. Nutmeg and cinnamon are a pair that I add to banana cake and banana pancakes as well, but you may ommit if you are not a fan. If you make this recipe quite often then you will decide which spice or flavour to add that suits your taste buds.

Banana pancakes 

Cuisine: Continental
Course: Breakfast

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Ingredients

- 2 large overripe bananas
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar ( optional)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Fish Roll Recipe

This is one of my favourite snack when I was growing up in Cameroon. Then you find it in the street, at school or mum buys them when she goes to the market. I used to wonder how it was made until I became an adult. Several attempts to make it failed.  But I never gave up until I came across this recipe which was a huge success. I used fresh Fish, tomatoes, onions, celery, spring onions, carrots and green pepper. You can add any veggie of choice but the fish is the main ingredient for the filling.

              Fish Roll Recipe
              Cuisine: African
              Course: Snack

Ingredients

For The dough

- 2 cups of flour
- 4 Tbspoons soft butter
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 3/4 teaspoon yeast
- 1 1/4 Tbspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 Liter of vegetable oil

 For The Filling

- 1 Fresh fish( I used makerel) of choice, boiled and flesh removed from bones
- 1 onion or spring onions cut into bits
- 2 fresh tomatoes, cut into bits
- 1 cup of shredded celery
- 1 cup of shredded carrots
- 2 Tbspoons oil
- 1 teaspoon Pepper powder
-1/2 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 cube of seasoning of choice.

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Sandwich Toast Bread Recipe

If you are tired of eating regular bread slices like me then this post is for you. I like my bread toasted with some filling. Well I don't like butter but I prefer other fillings like stir fried fish and veggies, peanut butter, grounded beef, nuttela, baked beans, boiled egg mixed with mayonnaise and what have you?, and toasting it makes it look different and tastes special too. But be reminded that you need a sandwich toaster for this. For this recipe I used fresh fish sauteed with veggies such as spring onions, green bell pepper, onions, shredded carrots, fresh tomatoes, chilli pepper, salt and seasoning to taste. You have to make this filling a day ahead in order to save time when you want to make your sandwich toast. Let's check out the recipe now.

   Sandwich Toast Bread Recipe

       Course: Breakfast/Snack
       Cuisine: Continental

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Ingredients / Requirements

• Eight bread slices
• Fish filling or any other filling of choice
• A toaster 

How To Make Popcorn At Home Without A Machine

Some things are really not as impossible as we think, and one of them is making popcorn at home. Yes you can make popcorn at home in a pot and by so doing you reduce the salt and sugar that is present the one we buy from the road sides, shops and even the cimema. Below is a simple procedure of how to make popcorn at home. This recipe does make use of salt and not sugar. I also omitted butter, but sometimes I mix both margarine  and oil  because the butter gives it a nice aroma that I love. Just feel free to make it to your own taste.

      Home Made Popcorn Recipe
      Cuisine: 
      Course: Snack

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup popcorn
• 3 Tablespoons vegetable oil or margarine 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 Tablespoons granulated or powdered sugar( optional)

 Other Things You Need

• A clean pot with a lid
• A spoon
• A tray or large bowl

Procedure

African Chin Chin Recipe

Chin Chin is one of my favourite snacks. If I make a batch it lasts only for few days because I don't stop eating it until the container is empty. It is so delicious and while making it you can flavour it to your taste and you can reduce the sugar to suit your taste buds.  The flavour I prefer most is nutmeg paired with vanilla. Other flavours which I have also tried include lemon rind, orange rind, ginger, clove and cinnamon. It is also great when washed down with a cold glass of juice, zobo drink, milk or yogurt drink.

You just can't go wrong even with a chilled glass of water. Below is an easy recipe which you can try at home.