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250g tomatoes 1/2 teaspoon cornflour 1 small carrot, 1 dessertspoon margarine 1 small onion 1)Chop onion, slice carrot and tomatoes. 2)Melt the margarine in a saucepan. Add the prepared vegetables. 3)Simmer for 30 minutes. Skim. 4)Rub through a sieve. Heat again. 5)Mix cornflour with a little water and add sauce. 6)Add seasoning. Boil for 5 minutes.

Recipe 1 hard-boiled egg white pepper to taste 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 dessertspoon vinegar 2 tablesppons evaporated milk ​ 1)Separate the white from the egg yolk. 2)Mash the yolk smoothly in a bowl. Add seasonings. 3)Add milk slowly. 4)Add vinegar slowly.

Recipe 1 tablespoon salad oil 1 teaspoon salt 1 dessertspoon vinegar 1 teaspoon white pepper 1)Mix the oil and season 2)Add the vinegar slowly, stirring regularly until it is smooth.

Mayonnaise sauce Recipe 1 yolk of egg 2 tablespoon vinegar 150ml salad oil salt nd pepper to taste 1)Separate the yolk carefully from the white. Mix the yolk and season. 2)Add the oil, drop by drop, stirring regularly. The sauce will become thickened, add a few drops of vinegar, if the sauce is too thick. 3)When thick and smooth, add the vinegar slowly, stirring regularly.

Recipe 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence 250ml milk 1 dessertspoon sugar 1)Heat the milk. 2)Beat the egg with sugar and pour the hot milk slowly and strain to remove threads from the egg. 3)Heat slowly and stir until the liquid thickens. Avoid boiling.

Recipe 1/2 tablespoon corn flour/rice/flour, custard powder or flour 250ml liquid(water or milk with water) 1/2 tablespoon sugar or 1/2 teaspoon of salt and a pinch of pepper. 1)Mix the starchy ingredient into a thin paste with a little cold liquid. 2)Boil the remaining liquid. 3)Pour on to the thin paste, stirring regularly. 4)Return to the saucepan, boil and continue boiling for 2–3 minutes, stirring continuously. 5)Add seasoning or sweetening.

Recipe 15g fat 250ml brown stock or water 1 onion 15g flour 1 small piece carrot salt and pepper 1)Prepare vegetables and slice them. 2)Melt the fat and fry the vegetable until it is brown. 3)Add flour, cook until the roux becomes brown. 4)Remove from the heat, add liquid slowly while mixing. 5)Return to the heat, stirring regularly. 6)Allow to simmer for about 3 minutes to ensure the vegetables are well cooked. 7)Skim, strain and heat again.

Plain White Sauce The ingredients: butter or margarine and liquid appropriate for the food to be served with the sauce. There are three types of white sauces: coating sauce, pouring sauce and binding sauce or panada. Proportions Pouring sauce                                Coating sauce                          panada 15g flour                                           25g flour                                  50g flour 15g fat                                              25g fat                   ...

1 liter of beef or chicken stock 2 large ripe peppers-chopped 2 cubes of beef or chicken bouillon salt and white pepper A few carrots, green beans 6 small cocoyams 2 small onions-chopped, 3 fresh tomatoes-sliced. 1)Prepare the vegetables. 2)Add all the ingredients to the stock, cover and simmer for 1 hour or more. Stir occasionally and taste with salt and pepper. If necessary, add more salt and pepper. This type of soup improves in flavor after a long simmering. 3)A few pieces of meat may be added. Cook in the stock until partly tender before adding vegetables.

1)Prepare a good thin meat, chicken or vegetable soup. 2)About 15–20 minutes before it is done, drop the dumpling dough by spoonfuls on top of the soup so that it settles on the meat, chicken or vegetable. 3)Cover the saucepan tightly and continue cooking for 15–20 minutes. Dumplings for Soup 2 cups of flour 3 teaspoon of baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon margarine 150 ml milk 1)Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. 2)Rub in the margarine, add milk to quickly form a soft dough. 3)Drop spoonfuls into the boiling soup, stew, or boiling water. Dumplings add flavor and body to thin soups.

2 cups grated water yam 1 onion 4 smoked fish 1 large tomato 4 tablespoons palm oil salt and pepper to tasted 6 large peppers 1/2 liter water 1)Flake fish. Grind peppers, onions and tomato.Grate the water yam. 2)Make a soup with the palm oil, pepper, onion and water. 3)Add the grated yam in lumps Leave to cook before stirring, stir gently with a wooden spoon. Taste for seasoning. 4) When cooked, serve hot with 'agidi''.

500g meat 2 large tomatoes 250g salt beef handful of macaroni 1/2 pig's foot 250g green beans 750ml water 1 cup of broad beans salt and pepper to taste 1 large onion 1 dessertspoon tomato paste 1)Boil broad beans till soft enough to be skinned. String and cut green beans. 2)Follow instructions for cocoyam soup up to stage 3. 3)Then add the prepared beans, tomato paste and macaroni. Season well. 4)Cover and allow to simmer until the ingredients are tender and flavor well blended. 5)If macaroni is not available, thicken the soup with one table spoonful of flour mixed to paste with water.