Ajuangs Kitchen: February 2016

Brown Ugali

I struggled with blogging about this because cooking brown ugali is a hard skill to teach, especially using the English language. When my mom taught it to me she would use words that i do not have a direct translation but makes sense in vernacular language so allow me to use both. Ugali requires a very visual and instinctual recipe, so here is my attempt at a lesson. Bring water to a boil and add your millet (I accompany my mom to have the millet ground at a posho mill, I don't know why we do not just buy it from the supermarket, in my language we call the flour bel) . Point to note, the heat should be on high, I add enough flour to make it form a soft paste (med mogo nyaka obet modhiek).

Fold the soft mixture on high heat until it hardens (dwal kuon nyaka o chiek), this will take a while, keep folding and covering the pan with a lid for about 20-30 minutes depending on the size of the ugali. Serve with vegetables of your choice. Variations of this are made by adding ground sorghum flour and maize flour to the millet flour.

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Oatmeal and Raisin Cookies

Cream your butter and both sugars together preferably using a mixture. Add the eggs and the vanilla and mix. In a separate bowl mix your dry ingredients, the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt together. Add to the wet ingredients and mix on low until combined. Add in the oats and raisins. Bake at 180 for 10-12 minutes, until ready.

Ingredients

1 cup butter/margarine (room temperature)

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

2 large eggs

1 Tbs vanilla extract

Pinch of Salt

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 and 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

3 cups rolled oats

1 cup raisins

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Chocolate Chip Bran Muffins

This is my go to lazy day healthy breakfast muffin. I say lazy because I use the red hill muffin mix.

The ingredients for this are on the packet, place one egg, one cup of molasses(or honey) and quarter cup of olive oil and mix. Add two cups of the muffin mix and whisk till smooth. Add, chocolate chips, i generally use chopped dark chocolate because I usually have some around.

Place in a muffin cup and bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.

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Brown Rice

Brown rice is cooked a lot like white rice with the addition of extra water. Use one cup of rice to two and a half cups of water(i usually opt for coconut water) and season with salt. Bring to a boil then reduce to low heat, cover and let simmer. Once ready feel free to adopt andy fried rice recipes of use as is.