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[Mia Chloe]

THE NIGERIAN DISH!!!

Seasons Greetings !!!!

Seasons greetings Fellow Naija board members. It's been a great year with great improvements on our board so far. The year is finally coming to an end with Christmas just around the corner.

Without further Ado I'll like to introduce this year's contest!!!
Well it's always about art for most contests but this time I'm taking it to another level. This year's contest features all varieties of Nigerian dishes especially our most recognised and dreaded THE NIGERIAN JOLLOF     .

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

It's simple all you have to do is Prepare any dish for this Christmas and new year celebration and share here. Make sure to give at least 3 photos of the cooking process to verify authenticity. All african and Nigerian dishes are allowed.


RULES

• You must be an active member of Naija board
• You must have earned at least 5 merit to participate in this contest
• Please don't make use of ALTs
• AI photos are not allowed
• You are allowed to submit a maximum of 2 different dishes
• Please include your username and date by the side of the dish when taking the photos.
• A total of 5 winners will be selected
• Contest ends 15th January 2025

PRIZES 🏆 🏆

1st place 🏆🥇  ➡️     25 merits + $50
2nd place 🏆🥈 ➡️     18 merits + $50
3rd place 🏆🥉  ➡️     11 merits + $50
4th place 🏆🏅  ➡️       7 merits + $15
5th place 🏆🏅  ➡️       5 merits + $10


Cash prizes may be attached to respective positions before the deadline.
Merry Christmas Naija and don't forget to spread love.

Let's give Nigerian dishes the hype it deserves!!!

[Mia Chloe]

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[Cryptoprincess101]

1. FIRST DISH

WHITE FRIED RICE AND SALAD

PREPARATORY STAGES:

First of all,
I washed and sliced my veggies (carrot, green beans, green peppers, cabbage) and set it aside in a clean pot added water to parboil my rice and set the parboiled rice aside while the rice is cooking in another clean pot i added my vegetable oil and allowed it to heat up then i added veggies with sweet corn and kidney beans. Then i set it aside.

I mixed the stirred fried vegetables and my well-cooked rice and i have a tasty homemade white fried rice

I also fried sliced plantains in small parts to apply to the fried rice and make it more yummy

I also fried meat to enjoy the fried rice with as displayed in the image below.

Though am not a pro as am still a learner, so some things might be missing but i wish to do better next time. It is better than not participating at all.

Merry Christmas Naija Local Board











2. SECOND DISH

THE JOLLOF RICE

INGREDIENTS:
Maggi, curry, fresh pepper (green and red), onion, green beans, carrots, cabbage, cray fish, thyme, tomatoes, ginger, seasonings, etc.

INGREDIENTS


PARBOILED RICE


MIXTURE OF TOMATO AND OTHER INGREDIENTS


AFTER POURING THE WHITE RICE TO THE MIXTURE


END RESULT OF MY JOLLOF RICE AND CHICKEN I FRIED EARLIER


AFTER DISHING THE JOLLOF RICE AND SALAD TO MY PLATE

[BIT-BENDER]

Good idea OP. But pls i would like to ask is this the board contest or your contest. It's great to see member running contest like this for the growth of all and I encourage it but it would be right to state it. I don't know if it's your contest but if it's a general then it should be recognised by the moderator after he has cleared it if not we will be have other members spamming with contest.

Also it won't be easy verify if the dish is actually from the contestants that posted it, regardless the idea of a contest where members here can have fun and earn while participating is encouraged but let it be organised in a structured manner.

[philipma1957]

I like to cook, I never cooked a lot of African food. My bro-in-law has a Ghana woman to help him with dementia. She cooks a lot of nice African food.

I will talk to her and ask her for a dish to cook.

[Mia Chloe]

~snip

Well I have hosted this type of contest since I joined the forum even before this board had a moderator. See :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5479089.0

[SmartGold01]

Hey Mia Chloe season greetings to you.

Thanks for putting this up here, I so much love what you did.
Anyway, I am not a merits source to contribute to the donation and rewards to the winners, anyway if there's any huge dump I can actually send out to the winners, but if there is no one who is willing to do that then I will have to support with at least 24,000 Naira equivalent to 15$ in usdt to the first winner in support of the merits required.

Please I will monitor this thread till the contest ends and I will send payment to the first winner in usdt worth of 15$ equivalent to 24,000.

However, I might participate in the contest. Love you all.

[BIT-BENDER]

~snip

Well I have hosted this type of contest since I joined the forum even before this board had a moderator. See :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5479089.0

Awesome mate I really applaud you for this, it's really a selfless act, but still try reaching out to the moderator so your message would be pinned and this would be the official Contest post we would have here in the board, once again great job and more success.

[1miau]

Really nice Contest, dear Mia Chloe.
I'll chip in some Merit for the winners:

1st place 25 Merit
2nd place 20 Merit
3rd place 15 Merit
4th place 10 Merit
5th place 7 Merit

Good luck to everyone who will participate.

[rachael9385]

Seasons greetings Fellow Naija board members. It's been a great year with great improvements on our board so far. The year is finally coming to an end with Christmas just around the corner.

Without further Ado I'll like to introduce this year's contest!!!
Well it's always about art for most contests but this time I'm taking it to another level. This year's contest features all varieties of Nigerian dishes especially our most recognised and dreaded THE NIGERIAN JELLOF  Cheesy  Grin .

Thank you for bringing this this post to our notice and I would be happy to participate on this contest as a Bitcointalker. Since it's already a festive season, we will all be preparing our favorite dishes. And I think this thread will make us know and learn some African dishes also, and to be sincere, I do not know much African foods and since the ingredients and the food will be posted in this thread, other participants could see and learn how to prepare there's. And i would also be happy to see some interesting results and contributions to this forum and this thread.
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[Ambatman]

Okay. This is a nice initiative.
I don't think I have come across a contest like this but I'm quite curious what's the criteria for judgement?
Like how would winners be picked?

I'm kind of a foodie so there's no way I can sit around not meriting pretty food.
Since the competition is quite far I can save before then.







I take Dibs on Pounded yam and Egusi soup.  

I like to cook, I never cooked a lot of African food. My bro-in-law has a Ghana woman to help him with dementia. She cooks a lot of nice African food.

I will talk to her and ask her for a dish to cook.

Wow I'm quite surprised about this
Never tested Ghanaian dish either
Look forward to the dish you making.

[IceLincoln]

Wow I'm quite surprised about this
Never tested Ghanaian dish either
Look forward to the dish you making.

You still not gonna taste this one lol…, only seeing, feasting your eyes.
So Basically the best procedure and finished product picture wins.

[Ambatman]

Wow I'm quite surprised about this
Never tested Ghanaian dish either
Look forward to the dish you making.

You still not gonna taste this one lol…, only seeing, feasting your eyes.
So Basically the best procedure and finished product picture wins.

Unfortunately we can't tell how the dishes would taste
But I'm a person that judge their food by the looks and smell( won't be possible here)
Best procedures? There's really no best procedure in making a dish
There are unique ways in cooking that can lead to similar or dissimilar result
That's why I'm curious how it would be judged not excluding the fact that there are variety of dishes in Nigeria
Especially from the east, so judging might be hard except we focusing on aethestics which I believe is too narrow.

Well I believe the organizer already has a plan.

[Churchillvv]

Brother It's unfortunate that it's not an Art contest anymore.... my love for arts but here we go it's about the Nigerian dishes.

A bachelor is about to visit the kitchen  

This comment might be deleted soon to keep the thread clean if necessary.

[Mayor of ogba]

This is a great initiative that will help Naija girls and boys show their cooking skills in the forum. The first contest I witnessed since I joined the forum was about artwork, which I am not good at, but I put in my best effort to come up with an art piece, but it was not good enough to earn me a winning spot in your last year's contest. But I am happy that this year's contest is about cooking because I am very good at it, and I hope to be among the five winners in this year's contest. I am looking forward to this contest.

[Charles-Tim]

It is good to see this kind of thread.

This year's contest features all varieties of Nigerian dishes especially our most recognised and dreaded THE NIGERIAN JELLOF     .

You mean Jollof Rice? I like to specifically call it Nigerian Jollof. White people that even taste it are not disappointed at all.

I take Dibs on Pounded and Egusi. 

Let us not make mistake in the food we are mentioning. You mean Pounded Yam and Egusi soap. It's really a nice food.

[Ever-young]

Wow, this is a good one. Last year I was not part of the Xmas art contest, and this year I might try to see what I can come up with this time. Maybe a nice locally made dish—the festive period will give a lot of time and chance to prepare that.

[philipma1957]

I will be doing a beef stew. With tomatoes carrots celery beef onions.

Since I am a diabetic I will serve it on various beds of

two for non diabetic carbs are higher

pasta
rice


two for diabetic carbs are lower.

riced cauliflower
diced squash.

[Mia Chloe]

Okay. This is a nice initiative.
I don't think I have come across a contest like this but I'm quite curious what's the criteria for judgement?
Like how would winners be picked?

I think you participated in the last contest last year though the theme was an art contest. Anyways I have two proposals in mind for the voting to ensure transparency. Either way the best will be contemplated on and used.

I will be doing a beef stew. With tomatoes carrots celery beef onions.
Since I am a diabetic I will serve it on various beds of
two for non diabetic carbs are higher
pasta
rice
two for diabetic carbs are lower.
riced cauliflower
diced squash.

Nice one phil here in Nigeria we usually call it white rice and stew and ("some of us dey even call am stew rice ")

[pooya87]

Bitcointalk needs more food related topics, contests or otherwise. It is just fantastic to learn about all these dishes. I'll chip in for some merits to the winners as well.

1st place 25 Merit
2nd place 20 Merit
3rd place 15 Merit
4th place 10 Merit
5th place 7 Merit

Initially I thought I could make this myself but I checked out the recipe in the link below found on google and I don't think I can get some of the ingredients like Nigerian stock or even thyme, and even if I could it sounds complex specially since I only dabbed into cooking and I suck at anything that needs mixing. Cooking rice and stew separately and serving them that way is fine
https://www.seriouseats.com/nigerian-jollof-rice-recipe-6741471

So I thought I should just share a tiny thought I had about lack of Tahdig (tah means bottom, dig means pan). Tahdig is the crispy rice (or anything you put) at the bottom of the pan. But it is an art to get it just right.
For example in this recipe, step 6 is lacking that Tahdig step, and it is also using the wrong pan for it; non-stick pans work best to get the best Tahdig. The same site has some info on that:
https://www.seriouseats.com/tahdig-persian-crunchy-rice-7187445
I didn't like all the pictures there so here is a google search link with some better looking pictures:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%D8%AA%D9%87+%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%AF+%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%A7+%D9%BE%D9%84%D9%88&udm=2

I used لوبیا پلو (means green-bean rice) as the search query because it also uses tomato[paste] so it looks similar to the dish in OP, visually speaking.

I suggest giving it a try and enjoy the result...