SLC-S28/W3-Local Taste, Global Twist!| “Healthy Local Cuisine Challenge!”

ninapenda (77)modin Steem4Nigeria • 9 days ago (edited)

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 3: “Healthy Local Cuisine”

This week is all about taking a local dish you enjoy so much and transforming it into a healthier version without losing the taste and comfort. You can choose any food of your choice, anything simple!

Our goal is to reduce oil or use water instead, add more veggies, bake instead of fry; just make it lighter, simpler and fresher.

Remember, you don’t need to spend extra money, just make use of what’s available to you.

This week is all about:

✨ Health
✨ Balance
✨ And creating new ways to enjoy old favorites.

Let’s see how healthy and delicious your creativity can be!

For this week, I decided to reduce oil while cooking. Generally, most cooking oil we use are mostly unhealthy for us but to apply some healthy measures while still maintain my taste, I prepared oil-free vegetable sauce!

Preparation method!

	Veggies for the sauce

• In a clean dry pot, go in with your sliced onions. Add a pinch of water and continue stirring until it changes color.

• Add in your sliced ginger and garlic and continue stirring. Cook for 2 minutes Keep adding water little by little as you stir to avoid getting burnt.

• Add the tomato paste and combine for a good mix.

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• Add your spices and mix well. Taste for salt if need be and keep adding water little by little because you don't want to have a running sauce.

• To maintain my original local taste, I added so crayfish, pepper, and other condiments. Stir non-stop until your ingredients are well cooked.

• Go in with the veggies, and give a good mix.

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Oil-free veggies sauce is ready

• Taste for any adjustment and mix thoroughly. Watch it as you stir to avoid getting burnt. It's a sauce so I was ok with the texture and I served my sauce with white rice.

To complete my Local Taste, Global Twist, and to maintain taste while I eat healthy, I paired my sauce with white rice and egg to give it a good combination. Food can still taste amazing while being healthy!

_{Task for the week}

• Tells us about the dish you choose to make healthier and show preparation steps.

• What ingredients or cooking methods did you change?

• How did the new version affect the flavor and feel of the meal?

• Why do you think people should try this healthier version?

_{Week 3 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/W3-“Local Taste, Global Twist| Healthy Local Cuisine”

• 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; #healthycuisine-s28w3 #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 (01:12:2025) 00:00 UTC, and closes at 11:59pm UTC on Sunday (07:12:2025).

_{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!