I like to parboil the meat/fish while making any Nigerian food with a cup of water and all the necessary ingredients. The staple has become more and more popular among Nigerian millennials and even older generations over time. Noodles are frequently the first food to reach the kitchen cabinet these days before other staples.

Pour the Noodles into the hot oil, add all your spices and mixed veggies and stir occasionally so it doesn’t burn. Failure to get some of the ingredients ready that we’ll be adding into the meal will result in some of them coming out half cooked or you’d have to let the food over cook so those other ingredients can cook well. Also read: Nigerian Food Time Table: For Family, Children & Pregnancy How to prepare Indomie noodles without fryingIn the second instance for those who think it’s the easiest thing to prepare, I’ve seen many people miss the mark on the appropriate water quantity when cooking this Nigerian Dessert and by so doing, they commit one of two errors: However, changing consumer lifestyles, increased urbanization and a growing working class are gradually introducing less traditional contenders to local staples. A few years ago, Nigeria’s most popular dishes were pounded yam, jollof rice, Amala, Tuwo, Ofe Owerri, and Efo Riro. Today, ramen-type noodles are deeply embedded in homes as an instant meal with annual servings in Africa exceeding 1.78 billion as at 2017. A: It takes about 3-4 minutes to boil the noodles and an additional 5-10 minutes to cook them with the vegetables and other ingredients.

Here is another noodle recipe, this one is very popular in Lagos state where I live, I like this best in the morning or afternoon.

Pieces the indomie in a bowl and pour boiled water into it, allowing for about five minutes for the noodles to get soft. It is eaten alone with tomato stew or served as an accompaniment to rice, yam, beans, noodles, custard etc. Fried plantains can be eaten as breakfast, lunch or dinner. Fried ripe plantains The first step in cooking Nigeria noodles is to boil water. Fill a pot with about two cups of water, and set it on medium heat. Allow the water to come to a boil before adding the noodles. Step 2: Add the Noodles After the timer elapses, use gloves (don’t dare us your bare hands o) to bring it out of the Microwave, cover the bowl and leave for about a minute before sieving the water out. Secondly, a lot of newbies just learning how to cook are told that the Indomie recipe is the easiest food to cook.

Nigerians love pepper soup, it is the spicy broth of meat or fish with some bitter herb added. Catfish pepper soup is always high in demand by guests at Nigerian parties and is about the most common pepper soup cooked in Nigerian homes, pubs, restaurants etc. Eforiro (Nigeria): Eforiro is a local spice that the Yoruba people of western Nigeria are known for. It features an original combination of spinach, dry fish, locust beans (Iru), toasted onions, scotch bonnet flavor, chilli flavor, and cow-stripe flavor.

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Step 4: Just before it is done, add the Sausages (you want them semi cooked so they can retain a little grit). Another incontrovertible fact is that importation of instant noodles has been banned since long before, therefore bringing currency into the issues now will be tantamount to deliberately confusing Nigerian consumers. Place your raw noodles in a Microwave safe bowl (i can’t stress enough how important this is, unless you want it to maybe catch fire inside the oven). Step 3: Now break the Noodles and pour into the boiling water with all those ingredients already in. Distribute it evenly around the pot then cover. Leave to cook for 5 minutes while occasionally stirring it so the heat goes around. Okro soup, Okra soup (Lady’s finger or gumbo) is one of Nigeria’s “national” dishes, this soup is cooked across the length and breadth of Nigeria, from the north where dehydrated okro is used to the south where okro is used fresh.