HOW TO PREPARE M’PISE (SORGHUM AND BEANS MEAL) by
Dorcas Amos
INGREDIENTS QUANTITY
Water 3litres
Sorghum 3cups
Beans 2cups
Salt ½
teaspoon
Seasoning 2cubes
Palm
oil 1cup
Dry
pepper 2table spoonful
Onion a sizeable
bulb
HOW TO COOK
Pound the sorghum in a mortar to
remove the chaff. When the chaff is off, use a winnower (matankadi) to blow it
off (chaff) from the sorghum. Wash the sorghum thoroughly and carefully remove
the grits of sand and the like. Put in a pot and add water, then you should put
it on the fire. Allow it to cook for 45minutes and then you add two cups of
washed beans and cook till it is completely soft and cooked, then you bring it
down.
Get a sauce pan, pour one cup of
oil to fry, add salt, pepper and seasoning, chop onion and add to the oil and
allow to it fry a little before bringing
it down when it is well fried. To serve, dish the sorghum meal in a plate,
smear fried oil on top and eat. It is better when served hot; you can now enjoy
your meal of M’pise.
UGWARANG
by Joy David
Ugwarang is a special dish in our
community; it is a kind of meal that is prepared for special occasions such as
weddings, naming ceremonies and so on. Ugwarang is not common these days unlike
in those days where you usually find it during occasions like Ugare popularly
known as Nake in Hausa.
Ugwarang
is made up of millet and beans. The millet is threshed a little to remove its
chaff like 30% of it, after which the millet will be poured inside the boiling
beans and it is allowed to get soft, before adding maggi, salt and pepper.
After these ingredients are added into the boiling beans and millet, it will be
allowed for some minutes so that the ingredients would mix up and also for the
water to dry up, as soon as that is successfully done, it would be brought down
from the fire and then it is ready to be served. This is what is called
Ugwarang and how it is prepared.
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