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HOW TO MAKE BREADCRUMBS AT HOME

Homemade breadcrumbs are easy to make and very useful as well.

Ingredients
A few slices bread of choice a few slices to a whole loaf

Instructions
- Toast slices of bread in a pan until crisp (not brown) on both sides.
- Trim off the brown edges off the slices (if you want strictly white crumbs).
- Cut bread into cubes or little squares.
- Grind the cubes in the dry mill of a blender/food processor.
VOILA! Your breadcrumbs are ready.

What to do with breadcrumbs? Just a couple of ideas:
- Breadcrumbs can be used for coating food before frying to give it a crunchy, crispy finish.
- It can also be used for binding foods like meatballs, scotch eggs
- Breadcrumbs can also serve as a thickener for soups
Hope someone finds this helpful!

Ofe Owerre Recipe

Ingredients:

Beef
Snails
Cow foot
Oxtail
Assorted offal or any other protein of choice
Ofe owerre is a protein rich soup so feel free to add as much as you can afford
Dry fish
Stock fish head(with ears preferably)
Stockfish flesh
Cocoyam(not Anambra type that is slimy, the bigger ones that can be boiled alone and eaten with oil. The white or red version ie: ede uhie)
Palm oil... (some prefer palm fruit extract)
Crayfish (ground)
Dry pepper or ose Nsukka(blended )
Salt to taste
Seasoning cubes preferably Maggi crayfish or Naija pot
Ugu(pumpkin leaves)
Okazi

Let’s cook:

1. Wash meat thoroughly with salt

2. Clean snails with alum or lime

3. Soak stockfish and dryfish in hot water for a few mins and drain. Add cold water and wash fish with salt. Keep them separately

4. Boil cocoyam till tender, when done peel skin and pound till smooth in a mortar or food processor

5. Wash Ugu with enough salt and slice thinly

6. Wash the already sliced okazi( you can buy the already sliced one.