Egg Sauce
Egg Sauce is a popular Nigerian delicacy made of eggs, tomatoes, peppers, onions and fried with vegetable oil.
Egg sauce is an easy-to-prepare dish, best enjoyed with boiled Yam, Bread, Potatoes or Platain and particularly eaten at breakfast.
Ingredients
Instructions
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Dice tomatoes, green pepper, green beans and onions and keep aside.
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In a medium saucepan, heat cup of vegetable oil for 20 seconds.
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Reduce the heat to medium and start frying onions and garlic for 30 seconds.
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Add the diced tomatoes, green beans and peppers and stir to combine with the onions
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Don’t add green peppers yet because they are tender; cover the pan and leave the content to cook for 10 minutes.
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After 10 minutes, add green peppers and stir to combine. Season the sauce with one seasoning cube, thyme, curry and ginger and still stir.
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Taste for salt and add if needed, stir the sauce constantly so that it doesn’t burn.
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Leave it to cooks for 5 minutes
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Once all the ingredients are well mixed and the tomato is well cooked, whisk egg and pour into the content in circular motion to spread evenly.
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Let the egg set for 2 minutes while on a medium heat before you stir, you want the egg to form lumps in the sauce instead of looking mushy and flat.
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Stir the tomato egg sauce and try breaking some of the egg chunks, take it off from heat and serve with any staple food of your choice
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Steps on how to make egg sauce:
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Slice yam into 1 inch size and peel the skin off.
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Rinse in clean water till water runs clear and no residue in water.
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Put yam in a pan, add enough water to cover it, add salt and place on a medium heat and cook till soft. Test with a fork, if it goes through, then the yam should be soft enough.
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Drain water from yam if you want.