LaBelle's Crunchy Oven Roasted Potatoes

Ingredients

1.5kg of potatoes

3 cups of water

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of hot liquid seasoning (Maggi brand)

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

3 tablespoons sunflower/vegetable/olive/groundnut oil

Procedures

Peel the potatoes, cut in wedges, put into a medium pot and add water. Boil for 15 minutes (if you are using new potatoes, boil for 15 minutes but if its old potatoes boil for about 8 minutes).

Turn oven to 180 degrees Celsius. On a roasting tray, add the sunflower oil and then put into the oven.

Drain and leave on the sieve. Sprinkle the black pepper, the liquid seasoning and toss together; continue tossing so as to achieve that rough crunchy potatoes after being roasted.

Put the pre-cooked potatoes in on the heated roasting tray. Increase the oven to 220 degrees Celsius and roast for 25 minutes or until golden.

It's pretty easy to achieve, enjoy your oven baked crunchy potatoes.

Your feedbacks are always appreciated!

Simple Spicy Oven Baked Chicken Legs

Ingredients

4 kg chicken legs

87g of garlic {peeled}

3 scotch bonnet

1 tablespoon salt

6 chicken knorr cubes

2 tablespoon seaseme oil

1 tablespoon olive oil

4 tablespoon dark soy sauce 

1 tablespoon barbecue sauce

1 tablespoon dry rosemary 

1 tablespoon dry powdered garlic 

229g of ginger {peel and cut into smaller chunks} 

3 bell pepper  - red, yellow and green {cored and roughly chopped}

Procedures

Add all the ingredients into a food processor except for the powdered garlic. Blend until combined properly.

Make 3 large incisions on each chicken leg. Put all of them into a big bowl or a big pot, sprinkle the powdered garlic on them and rub them into each leg.

Empty the content of the food processor on the chicken legs, turn the legs just to ensure that the marinade gets to all of them.

Cover with a cling film, leave in the fridge over night but if you want to bake immediately, leave in the fridge for atleast 2 hours.

Baking Process

Turn on the oven to 160 degrees

Arrange the marinated legs on a baking tray, sprinkle a tablespoon of hot liquid seasoning {maggi brand} on the legs.

Cover with a foil, pop into the oven. Bake 45 minutes to an hour.

 Check on the chicken, remove the foil and then turn up the gas to 200 degrees.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, so as to achieve that crispy dry burnt chicken skin.

Serve Hot!

***NOTE: You can always reduce the quantity of each ingredient used, if you are making this to serve for 2-3 people. But if you are having visitors over, these quantities are just perfect***

You can see the chicken legs in the red serving dish and I still had plenty in the oven, some of which my guests took home. I love taking care of my friends.

Simple HMR xoxo

Easy Buns Recipe ~ Nigerian Snack

Growing up, although my Mom was a teacher and had a teaching job, but she was very business inclined, she sold gold jewelries and she supplied various dishes for people. She catered for numerous occasions, ranging from supplying buns to the school where she taught to cooking variety of meals for meetings and conferences.

I watched her prepare these dishes and develop numerous recipes. I was always by her side because I had so much interest in cooking. I remembered waking up early in the morning to help mix and fry the buns and package them for delivery. I was very much involved in every single dish prepared in the house, so that was how I learnt very much how to cook, yes!!!

So for today, I would be sharing my mom's very own buns recipe.

Ingredients

2 cups of plain all purpose flour

1/2 cup of granulated sugar

1 small nutmeg

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

1and 1/2 cups of water

pinch of salt

For Frying

Deep frying pan or a deep pot

Frying oil

Preparations

In a big or medium bowl, add all the dry ingredients.

Then add in the water and mix all together with your hand until well combined.

Cover the bowl with a foil, leave for about 30-45 minutes.

In a deep frying pan, add frying oil just above half the pot or pan and then heat up.

Once heated, scoop in the buns mix with your hand {please do not scoop in too much at a time, because it's going to suck oil}.

Fry until golden brown. Once the first batch is done, reduce the gas heat and scoop in the second batch. 

Allow the buns to rise before you turn back the heat. {the reason we reduce the gas heat is because the oil is already too hot, if you add the buns in an over heated oil, it will just brown the buns leaving the inside uncooked}.

Fry until golden brown.

Hope you enjoyed reading through the recipe!

Thank you for visiting our blog, please feel free to LIKE us on facebook if you like this recipe and wish to know when we post new recipe.

I will be making a video of this recipe soon.

Thanks ever so much, hope to see you again soon.

LaBelle's Simple Lemon Cake

Ingredients

1/2 nutmeg

1 cup of sugar

220g of butter at room temperature

1 and 1/2 cups of self-raising flour

15mls of natural lemon flavouring

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (bicarbs)

1 medium lemon (zest and juiced)

5mls of organic vanilla extract

4 large eggs at room temperature

1 tablespoon coconut flakes for sprinkling

Preparations

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees/gas 5. Grease your cake tin , then dust with flour and shake off excess but if you are using a silicon one, no need for greasing.

Put the sugar and butter into a bowl, cream together until fluffy or once the colour becomes lighter. You can do the creaming with the a hand mixer, a wooden spoon or food processor. {If you are using a food processor or hand mixer, you can allow to mix for about 8-10 minutes or longer time if using wooden spoon}.

While the sugar and butter are being creamed, sift in dry ingredients into a medium bowl; the flour, bicarbs, and the nutmeg. Set aside

Once the butter and sugar mixture is ready, crack the eggs  and beat in one at a time, mix and then add another. Always ensure that you mix in one direction, for instance clockwise if using a wooden spoon. You can mix for as long as you want, so enough air would go into the mixture.

Then add vanilla extract, lemon flavouring, lemon juice and the zest. Mix properly. Add the dry ingredients in batches into the egg mixture. Fold in until properly blended or completely combined.

Pour your batter into baking tin, put into the oven, reduce to 160 degrees. Bake for 30 - 40 minutes or until golden brown.

Allow to cool for about 10 minutes before removing from the tin. Then sprinkle the coconut flakes!

Enjoy

Labelle's Home Cooked Meals

xx

Moi-moi with egg and sardine

Moi-moi is an African dish made with beans. Back at home in African, it was something we ate mostly saturdays and the process of making this dish is somewhat tiring. One can use black eye beans or any nigerian brown beans to make this dish. For this particular recipe, I used beans flour (check most Asian/African shops if you are living in the Uk) because I find it easier.  If you want to prepare moi-moi from scratch using beans, please follow this recipe.

Here we go...

Ingredients

3 knorr cubes

Salt to taste

2 red pepper (tatashi)

3 cups of water

1 large bulb onion

1/2 nutmeg (grated)

Eggs (any quantity)

10g ginger (skinned)

2 gloves of garlic (peeled)

1 scotch bonnet (optional)

1/3 cup of grinded crayfish

2 cups of beans flour

2 tins of sardine in sunflower oil

2 tablespoons of sunflower/vegetable oil

Preparations

Boil the eggs, peel and set aside.

In a blender, add the red pepper, onion, garlic, ginger, scotch bonnet and a cup of water, then blend together. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, add the beans flour, crayfish , nutmeg and knorr seasoning. Drain the oil from the sardines into the bowl, add the sunflower oil as well.

Then empty the blender contents into the bowl, mix together. Add the remaining water, mix until smooth. Add salt to taste.

Add the sardines, turn and spoon into your individual containers. Then drop in the boiled eggs in each container.

In a large pot, add about a 1000mls of water, bring to boiling point and then put in the container, cook for 40-45 minutes or until done. Please always check the water in the pot that it doesn't dry out.

Serve hot!
Enjoy!

Buns and Chin-chin - African snacks