Peppered Fried Rice (with Kidney)

When making fried rice, i sometimes feel the need to add pepper and move a little distance away from the norm, skipping a few things and adding a little extras here and there. I've come to a conclusion that when it comes to food, there's really no limit to how it's made. Some may like somethings while others may not. For this recipe which i'm sure you'd love, i skipped adding the traditional liver and used kidney instead. Also, butter was added to the rice which gave it that unique buttery flavor we all love. if i were to start on the health benefits you stand to gain from the lightly cooked veggies, i'd go on and on. I highly recommend trying this recipe for a quick lunch. 


How to make peppered fried rice with kidney
• Prep time: 20 minutes
• Total time: Less than 1hr
• Misc:          Serve hot

Ingredients:::

• 3 Cups White rice

• 1 Stick butter

• 2 tbs. Curry powder

• 3 Seasoning cubes

• Salt to taste

• 3 cups Meat stock

• 1/2 cup cooking oil

• 500g Kidney

• 6 cloves Garlic - minced

• 1 medium sized red onion 

• 1 bunch spring onion 

• 1 medium sized green bell pepper 

• 3 medium sized carrots 

• 5 medium sized fresh scotch bonnet (ata rodo) 

Procedure:::

Step 1: Rinse the rice and place in a medium sized pot. Add just enough water to cover the rice in the pot and cook for about 10 minutes. Turn out the rice into bowl and rinse with cold water. Pour the rice back into the pot and add curry powder (for the yellow colour and flavor), crushed seasoning, salt to taste and minced garlic. Add the meat stock or water and cook on medium heat. Add the stick of butter so it'd melt once it starts to boil and leave till the liquid in the pot dries up. Turn off the burner and set aside.

Step 2: Cooking for this short period of time ensures it doesn't get too soft before the real curried rice preparation as well as removes some of the starch to prevent it from sticking together. Wash and rinse with clean cold water. 

Step 3: Scrape the back of the carrots, rinse and dice. Remove the seeds from the green bell pepper, rinse and dice. Rinse and chop the spring onion, onion and pepper.

Set the veggies aside. Rinse the kidney thoroughly with water and dice, sprinkle a little salt and set aside. 

Step 4: Heat up the cooking oil in a large pan and add the salted kidney. Leave to fry for about 3 minutes. Remove the fried kidney from the oil and set aside. Reduce the oil in the pan leaving about 2 tbsp. left within. 

Step 5: Add about 1 cooking spoon of the chopped veggies and fried kidney into the pan, stir-fry for about 1 minute then add about two cooking spoons of the curried rice. Stir-fry for about 1 minute then turn out into an empty pot. Repeat this till the rest of the batch has been exhausted.

Serve your peppered fried rice hot garnished with any meat of your choice or with chilled salad

 

 

Written By: Dobbys Signature

Married Woman Beaten To Coma By Landlord’s Son

This is totally unacceptable...how can you do this to a woman, another man's wife? Sigh!
Doctors at Araba Medical Hospital in Abule-Egba area of Lagos are trying their best on a newly-wedded woman, who was allegedly stabbed many times by her landlord’s son for allowing a man, considered as an enemy of the landlord, into her apartment at Ishaga Street.

The victim, Mrs. Taiwo Kehinde, however, expressed gratitude to God for bringing her out of coma. According to her, “my landlord’s son, Jimoh Yusuf, attacked me right inside my apartment with broken bottles. My sin was that my husband allowed one of his friends into our apartment. 

“I was returning from my shop last Friday, when I met this family friend, Monday Michael, who lives opposite us. He told me to leave the house that my husband and our landlord’s son were quarrelling.

“I decided to go inside and change into something else. The family friend left for his house, while I entered our apartment. 

"I was trying to change my wears when Jimoh barged inside and started shouting. He said ‘I have told you and your husband that I don’t want to see that man (Michael) anywhere close to this house. But you wouldn’t obey. I am going to kill you before your husband comes back’.

“Before I knew it, he broke the bottles in his hands and started stabbing me all over my body, until I passed out. This is not the first time he has beaten me. I am not his wife, neither am I related to him.”

Genesis of the saga
Her husband, Mayowa Kehinde, traced the genesis of his problem with the suspect to the visit of Michael, few hours before his wife was attacked.

He said: “My friend, Monday, came to visit me that day. But when my landlord saw him, he ordered him to leave his house, even when I tried to explain that he was my visitor and that we have known each other long before I moved into his house.

“I reluctantly saw my friend off at about 9pm. By then, my wife was not back. On my way back, I was welcomed with shouts by my neighbours to quickly rush in, that Jimoh wanted to kill my wife.

“When I rushed inside, my wife was in a pool of her blood, while Jimoh still held onto the broken bottles. I held him as he tried to escape from the scene, while a woman rushed to the police station to report the incident.”

Neighbours’ reaction
When Vanguard visited the residence, neighbours alleged that the suspect was always attacking them, particularly the women. One of them, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “We have suffered untold pains in the hands of Jimoh but this is the height.

“The most painful aspect of it is that his parents are always supporting him. If you attempt to call the police, they will threaten to issue you quit notice.”

Police sources said the crazy Jimoh had been arrested and charged to court on Wednesday, and was remanded at Kirikiri Medium Security Prison over failure to meet the bail conditions.

Gospel Singer Benita Okojie Is Engaged

 
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Benita gushed about the feeling, she said: "I will never forget how happy both of you made me feel. So much joy. Thank you!

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Mother Kills Eight-Year-Old Son Who Caught Her Having Sex with Grandfather

A mother, Veronica Panarello, received a 30-year jail term for murdering her son because he discovered she was having an affair with his grandfather.
Veronica Panarello strangled her son Loris Stival with electrical cables then abandoned his body in a remote gully in Santa Croce, Sicily, Metro UK reported.
She thereafter lied to the police that the boy had been kidnapped.
She said she had taken Stival to school but was not seen as for the time she went back to get him in the afternoon.

A mother, Veronica Panarello, received a 30-year jail term for murdering her son because he discovered she was having an affair with his grandfather.
Veronica Panarello strangled her son Loris Stival with electrical cables then abandoned his body in a remote gully in Santa Croce, Sicily, Metro UK reported.
She thereafter lied to the police that the boy had been kidnapped.
She said she had taken Stival to school but was not seen as for the time she went back to get him in the afternoon.

Nevertheless, CCTV footage showed that she had not dropped him off at school that day.
Prosecutors branded her an ‘egocentric, manipulative liar.’
Even after she had been found guilty of Loris’ murder and received the sentence, she continued to deny the act.
She also blamed the husband’s father, Andrea Stival, When she confessed that her son had been killed in November 2014.
She told an earlier hearing that he had helped to plot and then carried out the murder because Loris had caught them having sex.
Stival is being investigated as an accessory to murder, according to Italian media.
He has denied the claim and is threatening to sue his daughter-in-law for slander, it has emerged.
Her husband has now filed for divorce.

Nevertheless, CCTV footage showed that she had not dropped him off at school that day.
Prosecutors branded her an ‘egocentric, manipulative liar.’
Even after she had been found guilty of Loris’ murder and received the sentence, she continued to deny the act.
She also blamed the husband’s father, Andrea Stival, When she confessed that her son had been killed in November 2014.
She told an earlier hearing that he had helped to plot and then carried out the murder because Loris had caught them having sex.
Stival is being investigated as an accessory to murder, according to Italian media.
He has denied the claim and is threatening to sue his daughter-in-law for slander, it has emerged.
Her husband has now filed for divorce.