Welcome to another episode of Creative Sunday with the Hive Learner's Community. This initiative comes up every Sunday, it is about fun and creativity. I enjoy participating and I am certain you wouldn't want to miss out on it if you participate just once.
For a few Sundays now, I have been doing a few stuff in the kitchen as an entry for the creative Sunday initiative and I will be doing nothing more than that again in this article.
You might be wondering why everything I do for my Creative Sunday initiative is all about food, that true and it is because I just love to explore in the kitchen. I love food a lot and making my meals brings me this rare kind of satisfaction after every meal because I am sure about the healthiness of what is going through my mouth.
I am a fan of yam and I do a lot of it during its season. Despite my love for it, all my siblings still it more than I do. My mom usually refers to our love for yam as a cultural thing, I am from Ekiti State and we eat yam a lot more than in other states.
I remembered her teasing me for eating yam before the new yam festival many years ago, she made me but I eventually got to know that everything was a superstition.
Enough of the story.
Yam is a carbohydrate and can be prepared in a lot of ways, it can fit into breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Today's task is making a simple yam and egg for breakfast.
I have seen people argue about whether yam is a light or heavy meal and I ask if that does really matter for a yam freak like me.
Yam is a heavy meal that requires a longer time to digest, I have heard people say it causes constipation when taken late at night but I haven't tried it very late at night before.
I take it boiled yam in the morning and fried in the afternoon when I feel like eating it, I also make porridge and pounded yam from it but non of them comes late at night for me.
Boiled yam and fried egg is a very simple meal, it is fast and easy to prepare.
Ingredients
Yam
Egg
Pepper
Onions
Groundnut oil
Basil leaf
Seasoning & salt.
As you can see, the ingredients aren't expensive. You can have a good meal of yam and egg for less than $2.
Steps
Wash and put them in a pot with water before cooking, ensure that the bigger sizes stay at the bottom of the pot so that they can cook faster.
Add a moderate quantity of salt and cover it till the yams are soft.
Frying egg is the easiest thing to do
Heat your oil
Add your onions and let them dry for a minute under low temperature.
I decided to add a bit of Basil leaves to the meal, the smell and taste of it are magical. It doesn't just give you that awesome aroma, it has got some mind-blowing health benefits. It is one of my favorite leaves and I make herbal soups from it when I am feverish or cold.
I sliced the leaves, wash them and boil for less than a minute.
Presentation
I made an opening on the plate surrounding by the yams,
I placed the egg in the , and sprinkled the Basil leaves on it.
Preparing this meal is less stressful and that's one of the reasons why I love it. The combo is a meal that gives you all that you need as nutrients, nothing is left out.
It is an edible meal for both kids and adults, kids it a lot and you can make it special for kids in their lunch packs.