Recipe: Appetizing Garri meal (brabisco)

Garri meal (brabisco). This meal is quick and easy to prepare. The primary ingredient for making this food is couscous. Couscous is also known as burabisco in Northern Nigeria and is made from corn or wheat grits.

Burabisco or brabisco is a quick and easy meal from the Northern part of Nigeria. It is made with Garri and garnished with chieken and vegetables. The list of ingredients for Burabisco include garri, vegetables, onions, chicken (shredded), butter, groundnut oil, seasoning cubes, garlic, ginger and chili pepper. You can cook Garri meal (brabisco) using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Garri meal (brabisco)

1. It's 3/4 cup of Garri.
2. You need of Water just a little.
3. You need of Ground oil 4 table spoonful.
4. It's 1 cube of Maggi.
5. It's 1 pinch of Salt.
6. You need of Ground pepper to ones taste.
7. Prepare of Onion 1 small bulb.

Garri is a dry cream-white flour mainly consumed in West Africa. It is obtained by processing the starchy tuberous root of freshly harvested cassava in a sequence of demanding steps involving: peeling, washing, crushing, fermenting, drying and frying. Gari (garri)is a fine to coarse granular flour of varying texture made from cassava roots. Cassava is cleaned after harvesting, grated, water and starch squeezed out of it, left to ferment and then fried either in palm oil or without palm oil and serves as a major staple food in West Africa.

Garri meal (brabisco) instructions

1. Put ground oil on fire and allow to get hot.
2. Add maggi, salt and pepper to oil and allow to fry for 5 seconds.
3. Bring oil down from fire and allow to cool a bit.
4. Pour garri into oil and mix well.
5. Add little water to mixture and MUX to make the garri soft and easy to chew then taste to check if salt was enough.
6. Cut onion bulb and put into moisture and mix as well.
7. Brabisco is ready for consumption.

For a full meal, garri is usually cooked by adding it to hot water, then kneading it into dough. This is eaten with different types of thick, leafy vegetable stews, melon seed stews, peanut stews, or beans. Smooth garri (known as lebu to the Yoruba) can be mixed with pepper and other spicy ingredients. The garri lovers organisation (GLO) should pls comment here. B: lemme see how this will warrant a ban.