How to prepare cabbage stew in your restaurant: The Nigerian way

Cabbage stew

How to prepare cabbage stew in your restaurant: The Nigerian way: Hello foodies. Welcome to my blog. Here I will show you how to prepare cabbage stew and you can use it to eat most Nigerian delicacies such as rice, plantain, potatoes, beans porridge, yam, and meshed corn meal.

Cabbage is a vegetable which is very good to the body and it contains essential nutrients the body needs every day.

Interestingly, cabbage contains nutrients that helps in keeping inflammation checked, improve digestion, healthy heart, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol and also contains vitamins C and K.

Wow, this is the most interesting thing. Your kitchen should always have cabbage to start with.

See: How to prepare Caramel for business purposes

Many people prefer their cabbage raw because it supplies antioxidants, but it is preferable to stem or boil before eat for some people.

Prepare that Nigerian cabbage stew

Ingredients you may need for 2 or 3 persons

Cabbage 1 ball

Fresh Tomatoes 4 diced pieces

1 can of tomato paste

2 pieces of Green pepper

2 pieces of Chilli pepper

2 pieces of Bell pepper

1 diced onion

Seasoning and salt to taste

¼ cup of canola oil

2 teaspoons of garlic

Diced fish especially sardines

Procedure

Step 1

Slice cabbage after washing it and pot in a pot, add salt and allow to boil for 10 minutes.

Also reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until it is soft.

Remove cabbage and drain in a separate bowl.

Step 2

Heat the canola oil (you can use vegetable oil instead) in a pan over the fire.

Stir, add onion and garlic in the hot oil until the onion is cooked (about 5 minutes).

Stir the fresh tomatoes into the pan, cover the pan to allow it cook for 10 to 15 minutes until the tomatoes is soft.

Step 3

Add water into the tomato paste in a bowl and mix with a spoon until smooth; then pour into pan.

Mix properly and cover the pan for 5 minutes.

Add sardines in the tomato sauce, season it with any seasoning such as Maggi, Knor, or Onga; red, chilli and bell pepper and also add salt to taste.

Stir the drained cabbage into the mixture and cover the pan. Simmer the mixture for about 10 to 15 minutes until the sardine fish is soft.

Step 4

Serve with any starchy food of your choice and enjoy the meal.

How to prepare Egusi soup for a catering business: The frying method

Egusi soup

How to prepare Egusi soup for a catering business: The frying method: Egusi soup prepared from melon seeds is a stable soup eaten in most homes in Nigeria.

The soup has great nutritional value and it is good for all ages.

Among many other benefits such as improvement of appetite, skin, digestion, heart health, and contains antioxidant properties, Egusi is sure a thing to behold.

See: How to prepare Bitter leaf soup as a business owner

More so, Egusi can either be prepared as snacks and eaten or as soup to be eaten with starchy food such as Grains (Maize, Guinea corn, rice), cassava and yam flour.

There are different methods of preparing Egusi soup. But in this article, I am going to show you how to prepare delicious Egusi soup using the frying method.

Preparing Egusi soup using the frying method: The Nigerian way.

Ingredients you may need

Meat 1kilo

Fish

4 diced tomatoes

Onion

Melon seed

Stock fish

Uziza, Okazi, bitter leaves

Pumpkin leaves

Pepper

Uziza powder

Crayfish

Palm oil

Seasoning

Procedure

Step 1

Wash meat thoroughly and boil until it is tender with the addition of little or no water (depending on your choice) and the stock.

Also, wash the fresh fish and bring to cook for 5minis.

Step 2

Thereafter, place a clean pot on fir (medium heat), pour palm oil and heat up.

Add sliced onions and tomatoes and stir until well fried.

Step 3

Grand the dried melon seed (egusi) into powder. Pour the egusi into step 2 and stir very well.

Read also: How to prepare Caramel for business purposes

Pour the meat and stock and continue to stir without letting it burn.

Then, keep stirring and allow to cook for 10mins. Then add more water if you want the soup not to be too thick.

Step 4

Pour the Uziza, Okazi and bitter leaves and allow to cook well.

Add the grinded pepper, crayfish, Uziza powder and allow to simmer for 20 – 30mins so that the Egusi will cook thoroughly.

Step 5

Add the washed and sliced pumpkin leaves. Stir and cover the pot to cook properly for 3-5mins until the leaves go limp.

Add seasoning of your choice (Maggi, Knor, Ajino, Gino, Master chef, etc) and salt to taste and allow to cook for some time.

Step 6

Egusi soup is ready to serve with any swallow of your choice.

How to start an interior decor business with little skill and money

How to start an interior décor business with little skill and money: Have you ever wondered why people’s homes look lovely, serene and presentable? Yes! It because of the decoration display for your viewing pleasure.

Take away decorations and you see the beautiful house becomes an incomplete building.

People love to have beautiful apartment so there is a lot of profit to get from the business if you so wish to learn, we will show you how.

Interior decoration skill

The skill can be learnt through self-taught, YouTube or by apprenticeship. Now that tech has taken the centre stage, different designs and presentations are displayed on the internet. All you need is to get the fabrics, equipment, know the designs and there you go.

Interior decors include the fabrics for curtains, couch, room divider, flowers around the sitting room, dinning table , etc.

Let me show you how to make huge money from Interior décor

First, know your perspective customers, the environment they live in and trend and what they like. No good colour combinations and ensure you give the best for everyone to admire.

One customer at a time and ensure you get feedback from every of your client before living their apartment.

They will sale your handiwork to their family, friends and acquaintances.

Second, know suppliers of fabrics, carpenters, vase and flower, window blinds distributors, etc to ease the work of getting quality products for you clients.

Thereafter, ensure you get trust-worthy suppliers and distributors. People make a huge amount of money making people’s homes beautiful and comfortable.

Furthermore, as the client tells you of his/her needs, you ensure you give the best by giving a befitting and trending designs.

Also, note the kind of client you deal with. Middle class, low class or the elites. Of course charges for your job will be different but in all, ensure you give the best.

How to start an interior décor business with little skill and money

When your work speaks for you, more clients, referrals and money come your way. Don’t forget that.

Setting up the sitting room, for instance must be done with elegance, touch of class and uniqueness. Different room dividers are available and affordable, use good window blinds, flower vessels to match the wall paints, even the wall papers should be unique.

The dining table be decorated with artificial fruits in a tray, place at the middle of the table. For uniqueness, don’t use table clothes because it’s out of fashion for now.

The center rug be exclusive with a matching colour, the window and door curtains be exceptional too.

With a perfect touch of your skills, clients will have no option but to award you handsomely. You will be smiling to the band and become your own boss within the shortest possible time.

Get busy!

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How to prepare Caramel for business purposes

Caramel

How to prepare Caramel for business purposes:Caramel is easy to prepare and it is needed in homes, especially for growing children.

The combination is rich in protein, carbohydrate, minerals and vitamins. The calories per serving is above 382.

It is very essential for brain development, and other health’s benefits.

Therefore, in this article I am going to show you how to prepare Caramel at home without necessarily going to the store to get one.

When you master the art of doing things yourself, you will save a lot of cash for yourself.

There are the procedures to follow

Ingredients

Lemon juice

Sugar

Cream

Water

Step 1

First put the sugar in a large bowl that is clean. This is because it ensures the sugar melt properly without crystalizing.

Thereafter, gently add water to evenly distribute the sugar in the bowl.

Step 2

Stir properly. Squeeze the lemon and extract the juice.

Then add the lemon juice to the mixture. This will provide quick crystallization.

Step 3

Put the mixture in an iron pot and put on fire.

Bring the sugar and water to boil. Allow the mixture to boil for some time.

See also: How to prepare good Egusi soup: The frying method

The heat must be on high and don’t touch the pot to avoid burning your hands.

Also, when the sugar is in high head, it will begin to change colour.

Note that three (3) cups of sugar takes about 8 minutes to melt.

Step 4

Gently jolt the pot to evenly distribute the colour. When it starts to turn colour, pay adequate attention because the process is very quickly.

You also need to look out for a dark or amber colour. The heat should be high and reach 280 degree Celsius.

How do you know it is ready? Here, use your nose to perceive a slightly pleasant smell.

Read: How to prepare cabbage stew: The Nigerian way

That’s how you know it is ready.

Step 5

Subsequently, remove the sugar from the heat and immediately add cream or condensed milk or butter cream and stir with a long wooden dessert spoon.

Note: Don’t use metal spoon because it conduct heat and the sugar may get hot and make the mental spoon very hot.

The sugar may bubble so you need a long wooden spoon to do that.

If you are using butter cream, then add immediately and stir.

Step 6

Stir until it is fully mixed together. That’s it. You now have a smooth rich buttery homemade caramel.

How to prepare Bitter leaf soup as a business owner

Bitter leaf

How to prepare Bitter leaf soup as a business owner: Bitter leaf is one of the essential vegetables with health benefits.

Everyone should at least feed on this vegetable once in a while.

The leaf helps in cleaning the system and purifying the blood for proper functioning of the body.

The bitter leaf soup is a bit bitter and we know what bitter things do to the body.

The bitter leaf soup is also a delicacy that families, especially Nigerian families and, particularly the Igbo speaking area of the country prepares and does it very well (ofe Onugbu).

How to prepare bitter leaf soup without stress? Join in the procedures I am going to outline below.

Ingredients for Bitter leaf soup the Nigerian way

Fresh pepper

½ kilo of Meat

1 big Sardine Fish

1 big dried fish

Some pieces of Kpomo

Bitter leaf

Palm oil

Cocoyam

Seasoning cubes

Salt

Procedure for Preparing Bitter leaf soup

Step 1

Pound the pepper in a molter

Pour the cocoyam in a pot and cook till it is tender.

Thereafter, peel the back of the cocoyam and pound in a molteruntil it is smonth.

Pour it in a plate and keep aside

Step 2

Boil the meat, kpomo, stock fish and sardine fish together in a pot.

Add seasoning cubes, pour adequate water and start cooking.

Once it is done, your sieve from the water and keep aside.

Step 3

Put dried fish in a bowl, wash and add water to soften before removing the bones from it.

Subsequently, clean and remove the bones. You can use a brush to clean the fish before removing the bones by breaking the fish into pieces.

Then, break into pieces and keep aside

Step 4

Pour the water from the boiled meat/sardine fish/stock fish/kpomo into a new clean pot and put on fire.

Gently pour the water so that the bones don’t enter the pot.

Next, add grinded crayfish, pepper and ogiri (Locust beans).Bring to boil.

When it boils, add the dried fish, the sardine fish, stock fish, kpomo and meat.

Step 5

After 10-20mins depending on the heat from the burner, add the cocoyam into the pot and add palm oil.

Allow to cook for a while. Then add the bitter leaf. The bitter leaf must be properly washed.

Cook till the cocoyam is done and the bitter leaf is tender.

Step 6

Add seasoning cubes (like Maggi, Knor, Doyin, Chef, Gino, Ajino moto, etc) and salt to taste.

After some minutes, it is ready.

Step 7

Serve with any Nigerian swallow like Semo, Akpu, Amala, or Pounded yam.

HOW TO EARN ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Learn how to earn on social media by reading this article.

It should be worthy of notice that, the new world, or new age as anyone could call it, is with us, and new careers are created. One of such roles of a social media manager, who, in the simplest way, could be seen as one who manages social media accounts, pages or handles as the case may be.

This person could be managing for others or for himself. This article will explain to you ways a social media enthusiast could get paid.

Ways To Earn On Social Media

The first way a social media manager could earn is by exchanging his service money, thereby, becoming a freelancer. And that means charging to manage pages, accounts and handles for others.

The fee is determined majorly by his performance. He could start with a little fee, and if he can impress his client, ask for a raise. He could earn anything from N15,000 for a single account monthly.

Next way to earn is by managing your own accounts. Platforms like Facebook, Tiktok, Youtube all pay content creators for their contents. The payment can be regarded as a share in the advertisement revenue they receive with the content creator.

But that is one of the several ways to make money. You can be an affiliate marketer, referring people to products and earn commissions.

Drop-shipping is another way to earn. It involves selling products you have not bought as though you have them, and when they pay you, you purchase the product and send to their address. You could also be a blogger, sharing your blog posts to your social media accounts and get paid via ads. This one requires Search Engine Optimization skills in order to make it more profitable.

Businessman protecting tablet with virtual yellow bell ringing and icons for application notification alert concept.

Conclusion

The ways to earn as a social media manager can be limited only by your capabilities to engage audience and get them rally around your online platform. And also, to get clients to trust you so much that they hand over their accounts to you, and pay you to manage the account.

Preparing Corn pudding (okokoro) in the Nigerian way as a business

Preparing Corn pudding (okokoro) in the Nigerian way as a business: Corn pudding also known as okokoro in Enugu, Nigeria is a delicacy eaten as breakfast, brunch or lunch.

The locals appreciate this meal because of its nutritional value. Every bite of the pudding is a balanced diet.

Many homes and works ensure they get one wrap of okokoro before going to work, school or business areas.

The main ingredient for this delicacy is corn (maize). The nutritional value of corn include vitamin B, essential minerals like zinc, magnesium, copper, iron and manganese.

The plant is reach in fibre content and can help in proper digestion.

Per serving we have 107 calories already, 3g of protein, 24gof carbohydrates, 1g of fat, 3g of fibre and 297mg of sodium.

How to prepare corn pudding is easy. Just follow the simple procuedure.

Ingredients for preparing Corn Pudding (Okokoro)

Corn

Beans

Paim oil

Seasoning cubes

Carrot

Pumpkin (or ugwu) leaves

Spring onions

Green and red pepper

Scent leaves

Green beans

Procedure for preparing Corn Pudding

Step 1

Suck corn in water and leave for some hours like 2-3 hours depending on the toughness of the corn.

Grind or blend the corn with a lot of bulb onion into paste.

Pour the corn paste into a big bowl for easy mixing of other ingredients.

Quickly add crayfish to ensure that protein is adequately added to the mixture and stir thoroughly.

Add seasoning cubes of your choice (such as Knorr, maggi or Gino cubes).

It should be enough to give the mixture the flavor it requires.

Step 2

Add palm oil to the mixture and stir very well so that the oil will mix with the corn paste.

Add a bit of salt to taste.

Step 3

Thereafter, add a reasonable quantity of water to the mixture so that it will not be too thick or too watery.

Continue stirring with long wooden spoon or hands.

Step 4

Now, parboil the beans and add to the mixture. Black eyed beans is preferable for this recipe.

The beans is parboiled because all the mixture put together will undergo another round of cooking.

Step 5

It is time to add the green bean. This is to give the corn paste some colour and nourishment.

After that, the spring onion and pumpkin leaves and scent leaves (optional) are added to the mixture.

Stir very well and proceed to the next stage.

Step 6

Slice or dice carrot into small units and add to the mixture.

Use wooden spoon or you ca use clean hands to stir.

Step 7

After all these, put a pot of water on fire. Wrap the mixture with banana leave.
Same way you wrap moi-moi. This leaves must be washed to remove any sand or dirt from it.

In another vein, you can use moi-moi plastics, or aluminiumfoils to wrap the mixture.

After wrapping up the mixture, put them in the already boiling water on fire and cook.

Cook for 50 mins to 2 hours.

Check if it’s done and bring it down from the fire.

Step 8

Serve when the corn pudding is ready. This recipe is truly nutritional and can be eaten alone or with the combination of rice and stew.

Whatever way you like it, enjoy your meal. You can also prepare it other ways, this article was written specifically on how to prepare it the Nigerian way.

Turn corn stalk to wealth within minutes

Turn corn stalk to wealth within minutes: We are familiar with throwing away the corn stalk or Stover after eating. This is no news. But do you know you can turn it to cash? This is news!

Start gathering your corn raids (stalks) after eating because throwing them away means you’re throwing away millions into the trash.

Interestingly, the stalks cost about $9.99 in the West, which is equivalent to 172.32 South Africa Rand and 4,584.90 Nigeria Naira.

Wow, that’s a whooping sum of money we throw to the trash in Nigeria and around Africa, while it’s worth a fortune elsewhere.

Do you wonder why this stalk is costly or why is it this important or what is it used for?

Your questions are as good as mine.

The corn stalk is mostly used in the cosmetic industry. It is one of the ingredients.

Also, the corn stalk is 100% vegetable, that is, it’s bio-degradable. It is mostly a formula for natural cosmetics for the facial and other parts of the body.

Ointment and other cosmetic products acts as exfoliator which is the ability of these products to remove dead cells from the epidermis so that the skin is extremely smooth and radiating.

More so, other usage of these corn stalk include production of charcoal, animal feeds, biofuel (as the world is moving towards green energy), veterinary pharmacy, etc.

Going back to natural products will protect our body from the destructive chemicals posed as cosmetic products coming into the global market by the day.

When next we buy a cosmetic product, ensure it’s made from natural products and our body will thank us for it.

This alone will make you have a rethink each time you finish earning a corn. Start making money from corn stalks.

People are making money from just thinking out of the box and you are also endowed with such thinking capability to do the same.

I hope this guide was helpful in teaching you how to turn corn stalk to wealth within minutes.

Start foodstuff business in Nigeria without stress

Start foodstuff business in Nigeria without stress: There is a lot of businesses to dive into when the white collar jobs are not coming in handy.

People tend to wait for a long time before getting a job when they can equally start something small and become a boss of their own.

That way, they also create jobs for the teaming population of Nigeria.

Therefore, one need to find something small to start with and the one thing that comes to my mind is food stuff business.

It is true that every business has its own advantages and disadvantages, but have you tried something new recently.

Something people do not find lucrative like having a company for fuel, designer clothes, shoes and bags, CEO of high-tech companies, etc.

Don’t worry if you aren’t born with a silver spoon, you can create or manufacture one silver spoon for yourself.

Dive into this business like grains and other food stuff ingredients. We have different grains and other food stuff such as rice, maize, beans, and palm oil.

In this article, we are going to show you how to start the food stuff business without stress using the four items mentioned above – rice, maize, beans and palm oil.

Everyone needs to eat food and the items listed above are among the daily consumption in a typical Nigerian home.

Therefore, there is a market for this food stuff in your community or surrounding.

We need just little capital to start with. Since your capital is not huge, you have to be discipline, focus, hardworking and determine to success. Your saving habit must be apt.

You will again know that every single dime counts and so save a lot.

Plough back your profit into the business until you have gotten enough money to buy in large quantities.

How to start a food stuff business in Nigeria without stress

Start foodstuff business in Nigeria without stress with as little as N30,000 Naira

Yes! If not because of the hike in prices, inflation and economy downturn, amount less than N30,000 can start a business.
All what you need is to buy cheap grains directly from farmers in villages who are in dire need of money to meet their everyday needs.
Get rice, maize, and beans in rubber paint measure and sell in cups or “mudu” around your neighborhood. Don’t spend anything outside the profit. Just keep saving.
Thereafter get a pelican rubber of oil. Start with 10 litres. Also sell in small quantities first.

No household prepares food without oil.

Again, don’t forget to save. You have to be discipline and intentional about the business. After profits you can migrate to buying of bags. Bags of rice, beans, maize and a 50 litres of palm oil.

Currently, a bag of corn goes for N22,000

Bag of beans N43,000

Bag of rice (50kg) N23,000

Palm oil 20 litres N13,000

Importantly, minimize the number of people you give your produce on credit. The more your food stuff is sold on credit, the more you lose your capital because some may turn out to bad debts.

Unfortunately, irrecoverable debt may mean the end of your little business. Guide your business with all you’ve got. That is the real thing.

In our next article, we will show you how to make huge profit from the sale of food stuff in large quantities and how much to gain if you sale in small quantities.

The true business of selling books online and offline

The true business of selling books online and offline: With the emergence of technology and internet facilities, the business of selling books is minimal.

Considering that one needs to just surf the internet and get a good read from the millions of online books.

Needless to say that the internet has reduced the number of times people have to get to the library for reading. Many have resort to online reading to meet their needs for romance, politics, technology, and so on.

In a way, many freelances are seen publishing articles online and making cool money to help themselves.

However, not everybody can afford data to surf the internet and download beautiful books online.

The cost of one download can mean a lot to some people. It therefore means that there is hope for people selling hard copy books as a livelihood.

The disadvantage of reading online books is that it affects visibility of readers due to constant rays from the computer, phones and other gadgets.

The more people tend to use the internet for their everyday need, the less they patronize print medias and book stores.

Thus, the business of book selling is very much lucrative. This is because there are plenty of people that want to stock their personal library with seasoned books and collections for their generation to come and for reference purposes.

It is ideal to encourage someone who love books to start selling books as a passion.

Here are tips you need for book store business.

The true business of selling books online and offline

know your target audience, such as children, adult and retirees. When the target is in place, the issue of the types of books to be in stock is solved.
Know your customers’ expectation in terms of price and value. For starters, it is advisable not to over shoot profit by making the selling price very high.

This is to enable people buy the books in time and also a wide range of notification due to awareness by customers.

Kinds of books; it can be old books, children books, Christian or religious books, stationeries.
The location of the business also matters. Where there are more readers to the specific books you are selling should be where the demand is high.
Know the source of capital. The source such as personal savings, borrowing from friends and families is checked.

This is in order to know the quantity of the books to purchase for sale at a time. Be mindful of where to borrow money, especially the interest rate so as to gain more profit at the end of a sale.

Beautify the shelves to attract customers to patronize you. Have a catalogue of collections of books in the store for easy location of books.

Have shelves, show glass, counter, and canter. Arrange books in a given category like children section, or even author for ease.

Have a store map. This enable customer to navigate the store without any help.
Have a business plan. When you want to approach an organisation for help or grant, ensure you want a convincing business plan that will make anyone wants to help.
Get good suppliers both local and international suppliers (Alibaba, Konga, ibooks, smashwords, draft2digital, createspace, kobo, amazon, etc).

Ensure you stick to the terms and conditions of your relationships with your suppliers. It’s very important.

Create a niche. Don’t compromise on great service delivery and quality (not pirated) books.

And also ensure your particular line of books is unique to you and you enjoy selling those particular books. It could be books for adults only.

Advertise your books online, schools, offices, worshipping places, and sports centres and events centres.

Finally, there is a great niche in book selling and when done properly, it is very lucrative. Keep to terms, supply quality products at affordable prices. Stick to your words in terms of convincing statement about a book.