Soup

Soups are those special sauces that accompany the major Nigerian food commonly known as Fufu. Fufu is a generic name for food you swallow during the eating process. Fufu is generally tastless and rely on the richness of the soups to make the meal delicious. It is common knowledge that Nigerians especially the Igbos from the eastern part of the country, must have at least one fufu meal in a day. This is why soups are very essential to Nigerian food recipes. All Nigerian soups can be served with Eba (Garri), Agidi, Amala, Semolina, Pounded Yam or Cassava Fufu.

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Roasted Whole Chicken

Roasted Whole Chicken and stew make a nice treat any day and on every occasion but the fear of messing it up keeps a lot of people from preparing this yummy recipe.

How to Make Roasted Whole Chicken [Video]

The most important thing you need to do when roasting whole chicken is to make sure that the chicken is thoroughly seasoned. There are many types of seasonings and vegetables you can use for your roasted chicken and there a many ways to go about it but the method detailed on this page is how my Mum does it!

Ingredients

Main ingredient

• 1 whole chicken

Seasoning for the body of the chicken

• 1 big stock cube
• 1 teaspoon dry ground cayenne pepper (or ground black pepper)
• ½ teaspoon ground ehu seeds or Calabash Nutmeg (optional)

Stuffing

• 1 cigar cup or 180g long grain parboiled rice
• Vegetables
  • 1 Carrot
  • 1 handful green peas (or green beans)
• Seasoning
  • 1 medium onion
  • 1 big stock cube
  • 2 teaspoons curry powder (no chilli)
  • 1 teaspoon thyme
  • Salt to taste
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Side Dish: Roasted Potatoes

• 6 medium Irish potatoes
• Leftover seasoning from that of the chicken
• 1 teaspoon thyme.
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• Salt to taste

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Prawn bonnet pepper

Red Hot sauce is a chili and prown bonnet pepper based hot sauce. Though it focuses more on flavor than heat profile from the combination of scotch bonnets and chilies which are more pronounced, the intense spicy feel cannot be left out. . This homemade sauce can be used for meals like Bread, eggs, stir-fries, meats, fish etc.

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Nigerian jollof rice

INGREDIENTS

Serves 4
- 100g Long grain rice
- 3 cooking spoons Margarine /Vegetable oil
- 2 Large Onions
- 6 or more Red chilli peppers
- 3 large Fresh tomatoes
- 3 tablespoons Tomato purée
- 1 clove Garlic/ginger
- Bay leaves
- Thyme
- 3 Maggi cubes
- 100g Chicken
- 50g Boiled seasoned snails
- 40g Cooked green peas
- 2 Smoked stock fish (optional)
- 4 pieces of Crabs or 50g Shrimps
- A bunch of Plantain bananas
- 500ml water
METHOD
STEP 1 Melt the butter or pour 1 cooking spoon of vegetable oil in a deep cooking pan, add sliced onion till slightly brown, add grated garlic, tomato purée, sliced red chilli pepper and small grated ginger, stir all together, add other seasoning – leave to fry for 3mins then add water.
STEP 2 Add the rice and bay leaf (optional) to above.
STEP 3 In another cooking pan boil the shrimps, crab, and snails together, add a bit of seasoning till cooked then add or separately boil green peas inside for 2mins.
STEP 4 Season the chicken and grill with onions, a bit of garlic and ginger.
STEP 5 Check the rice, if almost done, or bring to boil, add the shrimps, green peas either to garnish or to add to rice depending on you.
STEP 6 Melt small cooking spoon of oil into frying pan, slice a bit of onion, chopped red chilli pepper, a little tomato purée, add the snail, crab, smoke stock fish and grilled chicken. Stir, add seasoning and fry for 10 minutes to make sauce.
STEP 7 Check rice if well cooked. Softly stir up from the root with a wooden spoon because of the sauce settled at the bottom. If done, garnish with cooked and boiled green peas, fried plantain and the sauce. Serve with your favourite beverage.
TIP: Grate instead of chopping the garlic and ginger into the dish in Step 1 for a sweeter unique flavour to the dish.http://www.business-travel-nigeria.com/jollof.html

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