Black History month at Miss Nang – Afro-Caribbean inspired snacks

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Taste plantain and rice & peas crackers with their own dips for Black History month

As we celebrate Black History Month, let me reintroduce you to a few African and Caribbean inspired gourmet artisan snacks designed exclusively for foodies like you. You already knew this, I am a Cameroonian woman who grew up in France, I’ve had a few heated battles with my health and all that influence what Miss Nang has on Offer. The result, clean, junk free, visually appealing, no ingredients of animal origin, zero waste and plastic free…. Yeah I know a lot is packed in.

As a foodie, you probably know how much Caribbean food has influenced the food scene in the UK; Have you heard of Rice & peas, curry goat, jerk chicken. Do you know that The black rice crackers & Carrot butters duo was inspired by the above?

The black rice crackers represent the Rice & peas and included ingredients like rice, red kidney with almonds. And since the rice & peas are cooked with coconut cream, you find this last ingredient in the butter especially created to go with that particular cracker. The butter also contains fresh ginger chilli which are very prevalent in Afro-carribeans cuisines.

The black rice crackers have been the most popular in the Kokwa & Mikki dual range… order here.

On this link, you find a few handcrafted snacks that have been carefully created with passion and love of flavours inspired by my foodies adventures and my African background. Eating every bit is a true adventure and visually, they are vibrant just like colours you find in nature.

Few ‘did you know’s below:

Peanuts are  most popular around the world and can be found almost everywhere in Africa… At MissNang.com, you find them roast with vanilla and Cornish sea salt with oat milk. Or in the sweet tasters set.

Ivory Coast is the biggest producer of cashews in the world… At MissNang.com you find them as the most popular snack sold across all platforms. Why not try the Sweet tasters set to discover both peanuts & cashews? The cashew-beet is also often used at awards and as wedding favours.

Have you heard of plantain? if you’ve ever shared a meal with an Afro-Caribbean, you know they love their plantain. At MissNang.com you can find the Plantain and pumpkin seeds with herbs. The plantain cracker comes with its own special dip made with sunflower seeds & turmeric.

Everyone has heard of Rice & peas. Well here is my version of rice & peas with almonds and organic charcoal. This cracker own dip is called carrot butter… the combo is said to be insaaaaaaanes. Want to try it? 

These are just a few examples of the extraordinary snacks MissNang.com has  in store for you this Black History Month. By combining traditional recipes and modern culinary techniques, love & adventure, MissNang.com brings you a diverse range of flavours that honour my journey through health & life.

Join me, and let’s celebrate Black History Month while savouring these colourful artisan gourmet snacks. Click here to check out the selection made especially for you.

I really hope you love the selection.

Happy October!

 

Hortense – Chief Nuts Roaster

Beetroot chutney on bread

Healthy plant-based sauces and condiments

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Plant-based sauces and condiments with herbs in a wooden tray

Sauces and dips

It can be very challenging finding plant-based cooking sauces and condiments that aren’t full of junk or ingredients that are inexplicable/ unpronounceable.

Miss Nang Treats has always been an advocate of healthy plant-based foods with ingredients that can be found everywhere here in England.

Having looked at the plant-based landscape and the amount of junk food that has been carried over, it is no surprise that we end up with another form of unhealthy diet… more junk, just chemically modified from plant molecules… (eye rolling).

If you don’t believe me, go to a vegan/plant-based food exhibition. Just because a cake is called vegan, it doesn’t mean that it has no fat. A cake is a cake, is a cake. Vegan cakes still have sugar, fat and icing in them. So moderation still applies.

Any who. Back the sauces. Do you know? you can still find artisan confectionary, sauces and cooking aids that have not been tempered with? That’s what the Kokwa & Mikki range from Miss Nang Treats is.

The healthy plant-based cooking sauces and condiments are made from scratch with everyday ingredients available in our markets.

Let’s look at the Bitsy Beets Chutney from the Kokwa & Mikki range

Beetroot condiment in square jar

Made with grated fresh beetroot; it is cooked in olive oil with fennel and water chestnuts.
You can use this as condiments for steamed potatoes, rice, chips etc or just add it to a pile of tender stems broccoli.

Plant-Based and environment

Healthy plant-based sauces and condiments don’t have to taste horrible just because they are healthier, they do not need ingredients especially flown from the furthest end of the earth to sound exotic. We can just be more creative with what is here in the UK without overly compromising our carbon footprint.

Miss Nang Treats as an entity has made the decision to buy ingredients locally as much as possible. Often, even exotic ingredients are already available on the territory.

Some businesses think it must be better to import ingredients, but when every expenses is brought together on one sheet, we end up spending more than necessary. Not only that, but importing affects our carbon foot print.

Miss Nang Treats has chosen either to use ingredients harvested in the UK or use ingredients already imported in the UK, thereby, offsetting to a certain degrees the carbon foot print of the importer.

Not only that the sauces and sold in jars that can be returnable the Miss Nang Treats against discount on future purchase.

What’s in it for you?

When transitioning to a more plant-based life, it can be challenging to find things that make life easy. The plant-based sauces & condiments from the Kokwa & Mikki range were created to make life easier those on the start of their journey. The ingredients are familiar, the sauces very colourful with flavours simply out of this world. Mind you, the recipe developer is French, so they are bound to be flavourful.

One absolute fan of the range calls it ‘Life’s saver.’ As a very busy entrepreneur with a full time job and thriving business, Charlotte is a subscriber to the range. She says she doesn’t fret for her dinners or lunches because half of the meals are ready. ‘All I have to do is boil or microwave yellow plantain in the microwave for 10 minutes, add a dollop of Carrot butter or Bitsy beet Chutney and am ready to eat.

The Cream of sunflower seeds is a great sauce to add if cooking a one-pot. Oh and how about the Green chutney as a top for Baked potatoes? These are greats plant-based sauce to have in the fridge. They cut my cooking time by 2/3. I love them says Charlotte.

Plate of vegan food plantain and beetroot

Plate of vegan food plantain and beetroot

And those are the reasons those sauces were created.

Besides being a subscriber, Charlotte has also learnt to save the jars to be recycled through Miss Nang Treats.

‘ I used to through everything away, now I even keep the box so you guys can collect it. Oh gosh, you are turning me into an eco-warrior’.  She says.

We love to hear that because Miss Nang Treats is not only here to feed, but also to educate.

Great News

Miss Nang is launching a plant-based sauces & condiments subscription box in September.

If you’d like to be among the firsts to hear when the go live, please subscribe to the newsletter here…

Got a question? Please email Hortense miss-nang@outlook.com or click here.