The Nigerian Cuisine Experience - Yamarita & Mackerel Sauce By Delish Kitchens

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Yam is a staple dish in every Nigerian home. You can eat it boiled, fried, roasted or in Yamarita!! It can be an Hors D’oeuvre or the main meal. Yamarita is also a term of endearment. Go figure! So instead of Sweetie Pie, you can say Yamarita!

Delish Kitchens will be showing us how to make Yamarita & Mackerel Sauce.

Delish Kitchens is a food ordering, catering and delivery service based in the Greater Toronto Area which features delicious African and Western cuisine. Delish is renowned in the African community for delicious meals. Next step is to expand beyond the GTA by safely shipping freshly prepared meals to other parts of the continent. Delish Kitchens recently added private cooking classes as a new service. Visit Delish kitchens on their Instagram page to see more delicious dishes.

Ingredients

Yam. Flour. Egg. Paprika. Garlic Salt. Seasoning. Oil. Mackerel. Butter. Onions.

Scotch bonnet. Hot pepper fingers. Sheppard pepper. Spring onions.

**Yamarita**

Wash the yam thoroughly, place in a small pot add water to cover the yam,  boil on medium heat for 10 minutes…

Boil till its tender but still very firm, remember you’re still going to fry the yam to complete the cooking process. Drain the water afterwards and leave to cool.

On a flat plate, combine the flour, pepper, bouillon cube, curry powder and other spices and set aside.

Break the egg into a flat plate, add salt to taste and set aside, you can also add a bit of seasoning.

Dip each yam into the egg mixture

When that’s done, place each yam into the flour mixture, coat the yam chunks with the flour mixture ensuring each yam is well covered. When you’re done coating the yam, set them on a flat plate

Then dip each flour coated yam into the egg mixture, ensure the egg mixture covers the yam as much as possible…

Now add the cooking oil into a hollow pan, set it on low-medium heat, when the oil heats up,  dip each flour and egg coated yam into the oil and fry on all sides till slightly brown.

Your Yamarita is ready!

**Mackerel Sauce**

Wash, cut and season your mackerel fish with salt,  then grill, bake or pop it into an airfyer for 15mins and then flip to the other side.

After fish is completely cooked, debone it and set aside.

In a wok/pan, add some butter, then add onions nicely chopped, Sautee for 4mins, then add some oil, then add the roughly blended pepper and onion mix, and fry on medium heat for 10 to 10mins.

Add seasoning, then add your deboned fish, allow to fry for 3- 5mins to soak up some of the flavour.

Your mackerel sauce is ready!

Enjoy!

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I AM I CAN I WILL and Oakville Nigerian Community

I AM. I CAN. I WILL is a non-profit organization committed to working globally to empower one person at a time, one initiative at a time... So far we have

• Organized the Oakville Nigeria Culture Days 2018. A Rich Celebration of the Nigerian Culture

• Co-organized a #BringBackOurGirls rally in Toronto

• Worked with First Nations Children in an Attawapiskat elementary school

• Providing ongoing supplies to people who identify as homeless in the GTA

• Worked with Syrian Refugees in Hamilton and People (IDPs) displaced by the Boko Haram Terrorist group in Nigeria

• Taught Financial Literacy to youth in the GTA

• We have an ongoing sponsorship of children in IDP camps in Nigeria through elementary and high school

• Participant – Halton Equity and Diversity Roundtable

• Collaborated with the Canadian Black Chamber Of Commerce (CBCC) to ensure youth participation in The Economic Club of Canada & The Global Institute for Conscious Economics’ Conversation with Barack Obama

• Participant – Halton Regional Police Service, Diversity Engagement Table