Liver Recipe that will make you a liver lover!

We all know the health benefits of liver. Not only is it a great source of iron but low in calories too. In these days where we are advised to avoid red meat and fatty food for health purposes, why not try liver. 

However, liver is not known to be a ‘tasty’ food. Like I only cook liver for its health purposes. This was until I discovered how to make the unpleasant taste in liver disappear. Soaking the liver in milk before cooking makes the liver flavor mild. Yes, soaking the liver in milk gets rid of the taste. You can now gain the health benefits in liver and enjoy its taste. 

Once you have soaked for about 20 minutes, you can drain and cook the liver to your liking. 

Here is how I cook my soaked liver:

What you need

1 cup of milk

Rinse the liver slices with cold water to wash away the bloody fluid.

Place in a bowl and add a cupful of milk. This should be enough to cover all the pieces.

As the liver soaks, prepare the ingredients.

Cut the onions into rings

Dice the tomatoes into small pieces

What to do

Add some vegetable oil in a pan

Add the onions and cook in until they turn golden brown

Add the liver pieces and some salt

Cook the liver in the onions

Add ingredients such as pepper

Add the tomatoes last and cook until it is ready

Serve with a carbohydrate and vegetables

I like my liver with fried rice and spinach or kachumbari.

Eat Out- Fried Gizzards

I like nice little places that make nice food and I don't have to dig too deep in my pocket to enjoy. Let me share one of these with you. I like this plate of fried gizzards available at Kenchic Hurlingam. Its located next to Total Petrol Station at the Argwins Kodhek/ Valley Road junction. For only Ksh 150/=, enjoy this well-made delicious plate.
Enjoy! :)

Noodles and canned fish

Here is another easy and quick fix for you. With only packed and canned food, here is how you can make a good meal out of noodles and canned fish.

What you need:

A packet of noodles

Canned fish (This can be tuna, shrimps, tulip or any canned fish of your choice.

Carrots – Used for colour

Onion

Spices

What to do

Boil the noodles in slightly in water

Drain the water from the noodles

Place the chopped onions in a different pan

Add some vegetable oil and let it fry for a minute

Add diced carrots and stir.

Add salt and your favourite spices at this stage

Add the noodles and stir

Reduce the heat and allow it to cook for a few minutes.

As always, you can add more ingredients that you feel can change the meal to your liking

Enjoy!

Fried Rice and Eggs

The other day I got home very late after being held for hours in traffic. I was cold and tired and was looking around the kitchen for a quick fix as usual. I had eggs, frozen green peas, and rice. I decided to try out a one pot dish and I was not disappointed.

What I had

·         ½ cup uncooked rice

·         Green Peas

·         2 Eggs

·         1 Large Onion chopped

·         3 Tomatoes diced

·         3 Bunches of Dhania

·         Mashed 5 cloves of garlic

What to do

·         Add rice to boiling water and boil for 5 minutes.

·         Remove from heat and set the half-cooked rice aside.

·         Beat the eggs in a dish

·         Fry the onion, garlic and tomatoes with vegetable oil in a separate saucepan

·         Add the green peas

·         Add the spices you desire, could be pepper, soy sauce or mixed spices

·         Add the rice into the mixture and stir to spread the sauce into the rice

·         Continuously stir so the mixture does not stick (The water from the half-cooked rice should be enough)

·         Stir the beat eggs into the mix

·         Stir the chopped dhania into the mix too

·         Reduce the heat and cover to fully cook the rice

As always, you can alter the recipe like substitute the green peas with carrots or French beans.

If it doesn’t work the first time, try again. This works for all recipes. Enjoy!

Minced Meat and Spaghetti in the same pot!

One of the challenges of we single people is to wash two pots after cooking. This is why I came up with this recipe that you just have to use one pot. Genius, right? So anyway, mincemeat and spaghetti is a common dish. Whereby you make the mincemeat stew aside and boil the spaghetti in a separate pot. Well, the fixer in me tried to have them together and it was edible! See what I did.

What you need:

·         A ¼ kilo of mincemeat

·         1 packet of Spaghetti ( I doubt you will use the whole packet)

·         1 capsicum (pilipili hoho)

·         3 bunches of dhania

·         One large onion

·         3 tomatoes

·         Spices to taste

·         Salt to taste

What to do

I always boil all kinds of meat before I cook. I like soft meat.

·         Boil the mincemeat, just ¼ cup of water will be enough. As it boils prepare the ingredients.

·         After 10 minutes add the chopped onion, tomato and capsicum into the now dry mincemeat

·         Add vegetable oil. Not too much, mincemeat has its own fat.

·         Add any spice you desire. I use beef cubes.

·         Stir till the ingredients are well cooked and mixed with the mincemeat. (You can tell from the sweet smell)

·         Add a 1 ½ cupful’s of water

·         Let it boil

·         Cut your spaghetti into shorter bunches and put them in the boiling broth and stir to achieve a mix.

·         Add your chopped Dhania into the mix and stir

·         Reduce the heat on the cooker so the boiling is slow.

·         It’s ready to eat when the water is dried up and it’s not soggy. 

Enjoy! If it burns, try again till you get it right.