When it comes to the selection of diets and the best food for someone looking for some health benefits associated with vegetables and its sauce, then using the vegetable sauce for daily food choices could become a good option.
The ability to make the vegetable sauce a major choice very other options will help you to learn the skill and be able to prepare it in varieties according to your preference. Unlike the famous vegetable soup known to Nigerians, the culture of using the vegetable sauce as an alternative choice to stew seems to be a new invention.
Though not popular among Nigerians, the vegetable sauce has become a major choice for most people that are sceptical about their health and what they consume as food. It may not really be tastier than stew but it may have some health advantages over the stew.
Most vegetarians use the sauce to eat rice in place of stew, they use the vegetable sauce to eat spaghetti, boiled yam, boiled potatoes, boiled plantain, and boiled macaroni, etc. when it is properly prepared, you may choose vegetable sauce as a choice to eat any of the mentioned foods instead of stew prepared with tomatoes.
Due to its appealing appearance and possible health benefits, some people are developing an interest in using vegetable sauce as a choice of stew. However, the challenge of preparing it remains the major obstacle because the majority are yet to understand how to prepare a special and delicious vegetable sauce that can challenge the taste of tomatoes stew.
If you are among such people, this post will solve the problem for you. First, we shall discuss all the ingredients you will need to prepare it and how carefully discuss how to prepare it. Pictures with descriptions have been added to this post to aid your understanding. However, you are free to ask a question in any of the step you do not understand.
Assuming you are preparing the vegetable sauce for boiled white rice because you want to use it instead of stew, then you need to follow these steps to achieve it.
First, boil the white rice until it is completely cooked. Do not forget to add the required quantity of salt into the rice while boiling it. When the rice is ready for consumption bring it down from the stove and initiate the preparation of the vegetable sauce.
Vegetable Sauce- boil rice
The next thing is to start the preparation of the vegetable sauce. By that, starts by getting all the ingredients ready. Here are ingredients you will need: Onions, spicy pepper, sweet peppers of three different colours, carrots, black pepper, vegetable oil or groundnut oil, spinach leaves or Pumpkin leaves, salt, I cube of knorr, and crayfish.
Slice your onions about 3 pieces of medium size
vegetable sauce -sliced onion
Slice one big spicy pepper
Slice 3 sweet peppers that have different colours in each one
Slice one or two big carrots
Grind your crayfish about half of a milk tin
Slice the spinach leaves or the pumpkin leaves. Its quantity should be about 6 to 10 times the size of all the other ingredients when added together
Vegetable sauce – slice your Spinach leaves
PREPARATION OF THE VEGETABLE SAUCE
- Heat up the stove or electric cooker
- Place the frying pan or cooking pot you intend to use for making the vegetable sauce on the stove
- Once the water in the pot dries up. Add vegetable oil or any type of oil you want to use.
- Once the oil gets hot, pour the sliced onions and stir them.
vegetable sauce -sliced onion
5. Pour the sliced spicy pepper and stir
vegetable sauce- sliced spicy pepper and garlic
6. Pour the sliced carrots and stir together
vegetable sauce – chopped or sliced carrots
7. Pour the sliced sweet peppers of three different colours and stir everything together
Vegetable sauce – sliced sweet peppers of different colours
8. Add a small quantity of black pepper and salt to the ingredients in the pot
Vegetable sauce – Add black pepper and salt and stir
9. Add the ground crayfish and 1 cube of Maggi or knorr and stir properly until everything mix up.
Vegetable Sauce- mix the ingredients properly
10. The next and last thing to add at this point is the sliced leaves.
- vegetable sauce – add the sliced spinach
vegetable sauce – Ready to serve
Pour it into the pot and stir for about 2 minutes until everything mixes properly with the leaves.
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vegetable sauce – stir the spinach with other ingredients
At the point of bringing the pot down from the stove, the leave and the other ingredients should have a cooked look.
Precautions:
The whole time of making this vegetable sauce should not exceed 10minutes under moderate heat because the ingredients don’t need to be overcooked. The time interval of adding a new ingredient should not exceed 1 minute each.
After adding the sliced vegetable leaves, you shouldn’t allow it to stay under heat for more than 3 minutes and you must be stirring it with other ingredients in the pot during the period.
At this stage, your vegetable sauce is ready for consumption. Dish out your boiled white rice and add the sauce on it as shown in the picture below and enjoy the meal.
