For two
Enough cooked rice for two folk
1 onion (chopped)
three plum tomatoes (from a tin)
about half a sweet pepper (sliced)
a handful of spinach (I use frozen, zapped in the micro first)
palm oil (a dessertspoon)
olive oil (same)
tin of tuna
chilli powder
tomato puree (a squirt)
1 crayfish Maggi cube
2 normal Maggi cubesCook the rice as you normally would, meanwhile ...
Heat the palm oil and olive oil in a frying pan. Not too hot as the palm oil heats very quickly.
Add the onions and stir.
Crush the chilli powder with the stock cubes. I use a wee bit salt to help them grind better. Add them to the frying pan. Stir well.
Add the peppers. Stir.
Zap the frozen spinach in the micro, for 1 minute, stir, then zap for another minute. add to the mix with the plum tomatoes. Stir.
Ad tuna & puree, heat through and add the rice.
This is so easy to make.
Maggi cubes can be found in Asian and African stores. The crayfish ones are harder to find, you can substitute any other light stock cubes for them. My aunt adds egusi to the mix (melon seed) - you can get it from Nigerian shops and it really adds summat special to the flavour. Hard to find though. The basic recipe is totally gorgeous anyway ![]()
