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Hello my dear friends! Today I want to tell you a simple and sweet story of —how I cooked a delicious pot of local rice with ripe plantain. It was really easy, fun, and very tasty of the meal. It was really a good homemade meal for me packed with healthy nutrients to the body.

First of all let me just start by showing you guys what I bought from the market and how much I spent in preparing this meal. The ripe plantains came from our compound, so I didn’t need to buy them again.

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🛒 My Market List – What I Bought and the Prices

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The item I bought	Their Quantity	The Price (Steem)	Price (Naira)
Sand Rice	4 cups	5.88 steem	₦1,000
Fresh Fish	3 pieces	5 steem	₦850
Maggi Cubes	4 cubes	1 steem	₦170
Salt	Small quantity	0.5 steem	₦85
Fresh Pepper	Small bowl	1 steem	₦170
Cooking Oil	1 small bottle	3 steem	₦510
Onions	2 bulbs	1 steem	₦170
Ripe Plantains	3 pieces (from compound)	0 steem	₦0

Total Cost of all that I bought: 17.38 steem = ₦2,955. (By then ,1 steem = ₦170)

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👩‍🍳 My Steps on the Cooking Process

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🧼 My Step 1

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I started with Cleaning the Rice.
I poured the sand rice into a clean tray and used my hands to pick out the small stones and it husks. However,sand rice sometimes really has dirt, so it’s very important to always clean it well before cooking it.

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🔥 The Step 2:

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Boiling the Rice.
I set up my cooking fire and placed a pot of water on it. However, I then poured the rice inside to boil it. This helps to soften the rice very well and remove extra starch from it.

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🍌 The Step 3

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Preparing my ripe Plantains.
While the rice was boiling, I prepared the ripe plantains. I picked three good ones from our compound, washed them, peeled off the skin, and cut them into small round pieces. I kept them in a clean container.

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🍲 Step 4: Cooking the Plantains

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I removed the rice pot from the fire and placed another pot with water for the plantains. I do well to boiled the plantains very well until they became much soft. Then I poured them into a sieve to drain the water and kept them aside to consume later.

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🧄 Step 5

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Grinding the Ingredients together.
I ground the fresh pepper, onions, fish, and crayfish all together. Then I later poured the parboiled rice back into the pot with fresh water on it.Also I added the grinded mixture of the ingredients, Maggi cubes, and salt to the pot on fire. I then stirred everything very well.

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🛢️The Step 6

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The aroma of the meal was everywhere. It was time to add the Oil.
When the water in the rice dried and the rice was soft, I added the cooking palm oil. I left it on the fire for a few more minutes. The smell was very nice to me, and truth be told I was already feeling more hungry than before.

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🍽️ The step 7

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Now, finally the food was done. I scooped a share of the delicious meal from the pot into a plate and i added the boiled plantains on top of it. I sat down and enjoyed my delicious meal.

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In all, this was my cooking experience today. It was simple though and also fun, and the meal came out very delicious. If you love plantains like I do, you will surely enjoy this kind of meal a lot. Well,I hope you also will try it and enjoy it too.

_{Here is all the cooking steps I did in the video.👇🏻}

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