Hello hivians, today's write up is how to prepare a simple palm oil sauce. For most Nigerians, they love cooked yam with palm oil. This post is going to show you how you can spice up your palm oil to be tasty.
We are using our regular ingredients that can be found anywhere. Eating just yam and palm oil isn't beneficial to our health, even if we crave for palm oil to go with our yam, we should add some other nutrients to it.
Our Ingredients
- Onion
- Palm oil
- Crayfish
- Salt
- Pepper
- Maggi(Optional)
Benefits
Onion
- Its rich with antioxidant
- It contains cancer fighting compound
- It help control blood sugar
- It support strong bones
- It boost digestive health
- It has antibacterial properties
- Its a good source of potassium
Onion is one vegetable that shouldn't be lacking in our meal because of its rich properties. You can understand better by going through here.
Crayfish
- It helps in boosting fertility
- It helps in treating inflammation
- It helps in restoring body cell
- It helps in treating depression
- Its good for the brain
- Its good for the eye
- It promotes healthy skin
These are some health benefits of crayfish and you can see more and some explanation here
Pepper
In my previous post on My Mum's Recipe, I talked about the health benefits of pepper, you can find it here
Step 1
Place your pot on heat, turn in your palm oil depending on the quantity of sauce you want to prepare and leave to heat for 2minutes.
Step 2
After two minutes, add in salt and onion. Allow the onion to heat a little so you can get the flavor of the onion.
Step 3
Add in the grinded pepper and crayfish, stir for 2minutes and put down. Maggi is optional, if you desire to add Maggi, you add it after pouring in the grinded pepper and crayfish.
This is a fast and easy sauce to prepare and its tasty with boiled white yam.
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