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Ugba and Abacha also known as African salad is a combination of local Nigerian recipes. It can be a snack, an appetiser or a full meal. It can be made with several ingredients to match your taste. This is the basic local recipe. It is very tasty and delicious.  INGREDIENTS Ugba (shredded oil bean) Abacha ( dried shredded casava) Palmoil Utazizi leaf (bitterleaf) Akaun (potash) Stockfish  Gardeneggs Grinded pepper  Crayfish  Maggi cubes  Mix the Akaun with water.  Before putting the ingredients on heat, first mix them all in a bowl or in the pot. Make sure to wash the ugba very well to remove sand.  Mix : Palmoil, Akaun, ugbah, abacha, stockfish, gardenegg, maggi cubes, crayfish, utazizi leaf and pepper.  Put your mixed ingredients on low to medium heat and allow all the ingredients mix well. Serve delicious and quick meal. Click here to watch the preparation.

Green vegetable sauce is one of the many different ways to eat yam and potatoes in Nigeria. The recipes are simple and method easy and very straight forward. INGREDIENTS Palmoil with salt Green Fresh Pepper and Tomatoes Chopped onions  Crayfish Maggi cubes  STEPS Pour Palmoil into a pot on medium to high heat  Add Chopped onions  Add your pepper and Tomatoes and allow boil a bit  Add the green (vegetable) Add crayfish and Maggi cubes  Turn well and cover to boil  Very easy and straight forward but really delicious.  Click to watch the video.

INGREDIENTS Okra/okro and onions  Palmoil Pepper Paste  Waterleave Uziza leave Assorted seafood (crabs, fish,crayfish,shrimp) Crayfish  Maggi cubes Salt  STEPS Add Palmoil into a dry pot Add Pepper paste, stir and allow to fry for 30secs - 1 min Add waterleaves, stir and allow to boil for 1 min Add water  Add the hard shelled seafood  Add okro and onions  stir well and allow to boil  Add crayfish, water and stock  Add Maggi cubes and salt  Stir well Add Uziza leave Add Soft fish  Stir gently so it won't break into pieces  Cover pot and allow soup to boil well for 2-3 mins  Click below to watch video 

Ogbono soup is one of the easiest Nigerian soups to make because the ingredients used are easy and affordable, even the process is very straight forward and easy to learn. INGREDIENTS   Palm oil Boiled meat Ogbono (Grind your ogbono with Ghana pepper and crayfish): mix Ogbono with palmoil Ugwu leave Uziza leave Dry and Stock fish Grinded pepper Salt  Maggi cubes  Kpomo Crayfish chopped onions STEPS Pour Palm oil into a dry pot  Add chopped onions  Add meat Add dry and stock fish  Add grinder pepper  Pour water necessary for your potion Turn, cover pot and allow to boil for 2 min Open pot and add Ogbono mixture Turn until thick  Add Kpomo  Add crayfish and Maggi cubes Add ugwu and uziza leaves Turn well and allow to boil Serve with Eba, Pounded yam, Semo and anything else you like to eat.  Don't forget to watch and subscribe to my channel.

Nigerian Jollof rice is one of the most famous Nigerian food. Everyone struggles trying to get it right and by right I mean get it to taste like a party rice. The best part of making jollof rice is that it can taste right enough with any added ingredient of your choice. INGREDIENTS Groundnut oil Chopped onions Pepper and Tomato Paste Butter Tomato Puree Per-boiled rice Meat stock Maggi cubes  Sweet corn (optional) Curry  Crayfish Jollof rice seasoning STEPS Pour groundnut oil into a dry pot  Add chopped onions Add tomato and pepper paste and let it fry  Add tomato puree and allow it fry till sweet Add Maggi cubes, salt, curry and jollof rice seasoning  Add Meat stock and Butter  Stir well and allow to boil  Add pre boiled rice  Add water if necessary to allow the rice boil properly. Taste rice after 15-20 mins  When soft, add sweet corn (optional) cover pot and allow to boil till rice is soft  ...

Stew is one of the most popular food in Nigeria because it is easy to make and also very versatile. A batch can last you through several meals, it can be used to eat practically anything. It can be made with any type of meat you like and with any ingredient of your choice. So really there isn't just one way of making this which is good because you can spice it up to match your own taste. Ingredients  Groundnut oil  Boiled Tomato and pepper paste Tomato Puree Chopped onions  Boiled Tilapia fish  Curry seasoning Maggi cubes  Salt Crayfish Steps  Pour a small amount of groundnut oil on a dry pot on medium to high heat Add the chopped onions, allow to fry for about 1min  Add boiled Tomato and pepper paste  Stir and fry for about 2mins  Add Tomato puree  Stir and allow to fry till sweet and suits your taste  Add Curry seasoning, salt and Maggi cubes  stir until well blended  Add water, meat stoc...

Egusi Soup is one of the easiest Nigerian soups to make as long as you have the right steps and ingredients. You can use any or no meat to cook this and it will come out tasty and still nutritious. The recipe I use is the same one that has been passed down from my grandmother's mother to her and now its here for you. The trick in making egusi is to leave it on the fire for as long as you can. The down side is that it burns fast, so pay attention when making this. Ingredients  Egusi ( grind or pound this with crayfish and onions) Pepper and Tomato (grind pepper and tomato into paste) Meat  Palmoil Dryfish or stockfish Pomo periwinkle iru or dawadawa  crayfish salt maggi cube chopped onions  freshly washed bitterleaf  Steps Pour palmoil into a dry pot on medium to high heat add chopped onions  Add the already boiled tomato and pepper paste, leave to fry till sweet Add egusi and keep stirring till mixed and fried (do not stop...