St Patrick’s day was an interesting day for me. I sat in the kitchen with my mum from the time I woke up at noon till 9pm when I was ready to go to bed. We did everything in the kitchen that day. Cooked, listened to music, skyped with the rest of the family etc. Was really a fun day. I got to learn a few tips and tricks about how to make certain traditional dishes and what local spices to use. I really wish more of these local spices were available internationally but I digress. So being that it was St Patty’s day, I was going to either opt for something green or something alcoholic and I chose the green path. Not sure if my audience is ready for alcohol cooking yet. Maybe you are 🙂 Soon time.
Anyway, being that green ingredients are not hard to come by in Nigeria, I decided to do a representation of a popular appetizer in Nigeria. Garden eggs and peanuts or peanut butter. I saw a few pictures recently of an event that took place in Abuja and they were served garden eggs and peanuts in a not so pretty way. It caused quite an uproar in the Nigerian community on twitter with people being so shocked that they would even serve that. On the contrary, if it is presented nicely then why not?
For my peanut butter, I added a little dry pepper and african nutmeg while blending the roasted peanuts. If you have no access to African nutmeg, just go ahead with some cayenne pepper or chilli flakes. I also used a tiny knife to take away the core of the garden egg but that was my choice, you can decide to just cut off the top and smear the peanut butter mix on the top of your Garden egg. To garnish, I used pepper seeds as eyes, half a peanut as the nose and a tiny pepper slice as the mouth. I served this with a kiwi smoothie which I blended with yogurt. See I didn’t need alcohol to have fun on St Patty’s day. What did you do for it?
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