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Flavourful vegetable couscous

Vegetable Couscous

Vegetable couscous is an awesome way to prepare this underutilised ingredient. Couscous is a blank canvas like rice, it will absorb the flavour of the spices used in cooking it. It can be used just like rice and will excite your culinary creativity. Couscous is commonly made with durum wheat semolina, there are […]

Healthy and aromatic Green leafy vegetable rice

Green Leafy Vegetable Rice, Callaloo Rice

Green leafy vegetable rice is enriched wholesome rice, an excellent way to add more vegetables to your diet. Made with green amaranth and lovely aromatic herbs, it is herby, packed full of flavour and nutrients. I have been craving green leafy vegetables of late especially green amaranth simply called green […]

Crispy and light as air uncooked potato green vegetable balls

Potato and green vegetable balls (Green amaranth)

Potato and green vegetable balls are crispy and light. They are healthy and taste great warm or cold, it makes you wonder how something so simple can taste so good. These vegetable balls are quick and easy to make. The kids will love them and can help with moulding the balls. […]

Very comforting and healthy Nigerian Greens and beans

Nigerian greens and beans (green amaranth)

Nigerian greens and beans is a healthy nutrient-dense combination of greens and beans. Green in Nigeria is the green amaranth. The addition of greens to beans makes a delicious and comforting dish that is low in calories but very filling. This dish is easy to cook and the beans can […]

Tigernut Energy Balls

Tigernut energy balls are sweet nuggets you can carry on the go for an energy boost or a convenient snack. I have already written a lot about Tiger nuts and their benefits. Tiger nuts, a superfood, can be processed into milk, flour and oil. These are in turn used in […]

Tiger nut pulp Flour

How to make Tigernut Pulp Flour

Tigernut Pulp flour is flour produced from the tuber of the tiger nut plant. It is gluten-free, nut-free, seed-free and grain-free. It suits many types of diet like Paleo, Keto, diabetic, raw food and particularly important to the vegan diet.  Read to know 25 amazing facts about tigernut flour. Tigernut flour can […]

Pure Tigernut flour

How to make Pure Tigernut flour

Pure Tigernut flour is a flour produced from the tuber of the tiger nut plant. It is gluten-free, nut-free, seed-free and grain-free. It suits many types of diet like Paleo, Keto, diabetic, raw food and is particularly important to the vegan diet. Read to know 25 amazing facts about tigernut flour. Tigernut […]

25 amazing facts about tiger nut flour

25 Amazing facts about tiger nut flour

When we hear flour we automatically think wheat, refined or unrefined, then corn and maybe a few other grain flours. Tiger nut flour ‘Cyperus esculentus’ is not your everyday flour, it is totally special not just because it tastes good but the health benefits are enormous. Also, it is not a […]

30 amazing facts about tigernut milk

30 Amazing Facts About Tigernut Milk

Besides eating tigernuts whole, a delicious wholesome non-dairy milk can be made out of them. It is called Kunnu Aya in Nigeria and Chufa de Horchata in Spain. Tigernut milk is white, sweet and creamy. Although tigernut ‘Cyperus esculentus’ is not a nut, it is a tuber but milk is […]

Fresh Tiger nuts for 30 amazing facts about tiger nut

30 Amazing Facts About Tiger nuts

Sometimes it seems as if nature is partial in its distribution of goodies, to some plants it is overly generous to others not so much. It put in so much good stuff into the simple tiger nut that it is referred to as a ‘superfood’. Tiger nuts have not been […]