SLC-S28/W5-"Local Taste, Global Twist!"| Cultural Fusion Challenge!

Welcome to this week’s culinary journey!

In this challenge, my goal is to blend creativity, culture, and simple cooking ideas that anyone can try from home. Each week, I explore a new theme, experiment with flavors, and learn something fresh about food from different parts of the world.

This week’s presentation reflects not just the recipe, but the inspiration, the process, and the joy behind creating it. I hope it brings you as much excitement as it brought me while preparing it.

Now, let’s dive into my work for the week.

Week 5: “Cultural Fusion!”

Welcome to Week 5!

Now we’re stepping into pure creativity, everyone has got a creative talent, let's see how you can use yours. You just have to create a dish that combines two different cultures, maybe Nigerian meets Italian, African meets Asian, Indian meets Caribbean, anything you like. You can work with foods you already have: rice, noodles, beans, eggs, veggies, plantain, potatoes… Just think of how two cultures might “meet” on your plate. No pressure and no big spending.

This week is all about:

✨ Innovation
✨ Blending cultures
✨ And trying incredible combinations

Let your plate speak two languages at once!

I prepared white rice and beans with veggies sauce and fried eggs on top. “Spanish style!”

• Rice
• Beans
• Onion, garlic, ginger
• Olive oil
• Paprika
• Fried eggs for topping

This dish only required the main ingredients to give it that cultural fusion. For this dish, I had to think creative. Spanish rice and beans usually comes in a smoky jollof mix way with fried eggs on top, but I decided to make it in a different way but still having that Spanish touch on my plate. Instead of veg. oil, I used olive oil and onions+garlic+ginger+paprika to cook.

It wasn't difficult, it was so easy as I used my veggies to prepare sauce for the dish. Slices of onions added and placed beside the dish, gave it an African touch! So while thinking of something simple to prepare, I thought of a nice dish from Spain. The Spaniards love simple and comforting ingredients.

You don't need to buy something new, just make use of what is available for you and let the creativity flow!

Task for the week

• Which two (or more) cuisines did you combine? Tell us why you chose those cuisine as you share the processes.

• What made you think the combination would work well together?

• Did you face challenges while creating your fusion? Share with us. If no, share your experiences.

• How do you think the flavors you used represent unity in diversity?

Week 5 Challenge Guidelines

• Be intentional with your creativity, presentation and the global twist.

• Show your processes and the final presentation with your username and date attached.

• Answer all questions explicitly!

• The title of your entry should be| SLC-S28/W5-“Local Taste, Global Twist”| Cultural Fusion Dish!”

• No two participants are allowed to reinvent the same dish. Everyone must create something unique, as there are so many dishes available.

• Post your entry in steem4nigeria community or on your blog!

• Use tags as follows; #culturalfusion-s28w5 #steemexclusive #creativity #food #country. You can use #burnsteem25 tag if you have set 25% beneficiary to @null.

• Your word count should be 500 minimum.

• You must check out other users entries to give meaningful feedback and interaction, that way you learn new twist pattern from others.

• Use clear images and all images should be the author's own no copyright source! You can add a video (optional).

• Promote on socials like X and share your link in the comment section of your post.

• Drop the link to your entry in the comment section of this post and invite 3 active friends to participate.

• This contest is flagged open from Monday (15:12:2025) 00:00 UTC, and closes at 11:59pm UTC on Sunday (21:12:2025).

Contest winner's reward

At the end of each week, I will choose six (6) top users who have followed the rules. These users will get an upvote from @steemcurator01 as a reward for their effort!

Generally, users may also get a random upvote from SC02. However, receiving an upvote is not guaranteed!

My marking scheme

My Observation:

Description	Score
Uniqueness of entry	4/4
Creativity, presentation & Writing style	2/2
Engagement & Interaction	2/2
Compliance to instructions	2/2
Sum Total	10/10

I look forward to seeing as much creativity flow in with this global twist! Let's get the creativity on!