When reminiscing some boarding house chronicles, one meal that should ring a bell is Kwado. It was one of those meals we ate when we were so broke while in school and couldn’t afford a real decent meal. Times like that meant we had to get creative with whatever we had available to get by….In came kwado. I mean, who didn’t have garri or sardine available stashed somewhere in a locker. About 3-6 people would gather around one little bowl of kwado like it was the tastiest meal in the world..lol!
Kwado is a cold meal made with from a mixture of dry pepper/yaji, mashed sardines & oil, onion, kuli kuli and sometimes stock cubes. It’s mostly prepared by BROKE boarding house students with no option of getting a decent meal :D. What do you call this in your language?
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I've never tasted this before, i might just try it:)
The Beautiful Eagle
You did not wet your garri with water. The kwado wont be moist. It will be quite dry.
For those two cups of garri, at least moisten it with one-quarter to half a cup of water so that:
1) the ingredients mix well
2) the garri absorbs the water and softens
3) you don't end up sipping and sipping water while eating
4) you don't end up frustrated in the loo because your poop is like a rock.
Dry gari!? We wud soak the gari, drain all d water and let it sit for like 3 minutes (turns out like cous-cous) before adding the other ingredients. You cud add chopped tomatoes and lettuce leaves.
This remind of boarding school. Gosh our last option when we go broke and no more provision. And there is also one called Eba and ge (cold Eba made with cold water soaked until hardened and then gesher. Lol school days was amazing!!!!!
This remind of boarding school. Gosh our last option when we go broke and no more provision. And there is also one called Eba and ge (cold Eba made with cold water soaked until hardened and then gesher. Lol school days was amazing!!!!!
Oh my!!! This just brought back memories of boarding school in Abuja.
Kwado na'a fachi ike…Translation in broken English: Kwado dey block nyash …ldtmb!
Nice dobby really stirred up memories… Plus I think you missed addition of garri bits in your preparation writeups.. Thanks
You were fancy in boarding school o. If you even find garri to eat you thank God!
Thanks dobby. This evoked memories…
just like dat?
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Dobby! I have never heard nor tasted this before oooo
Wet your garri, strain the water, if still moist, allow it to air and spread it. It should be like cous cous
Add your ingredients. Remove that atarodo.
Ebange or ebansar. Though their preparion differ from kwado
Wow, reminds me of boarding school, only we called it goose-goose (not sure of the spelling). And u need to moisten the garri like people have mentioned otherwise it will be too dry
Beautifully made better still this meal is known as gada milk, better still gwadon Garin kwaki, plus dear if you don't sprinkle water on this kwado you won't enjoy it and your stool hahahhha