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Here is a delicious spaghetti/macaroni recipe, A very popular Nigerian food. If you really want to enjoy spaghetti, give this a shot today. I have tried several other recipes and this proves to be the best of them all.   Partly because of the use of carrots and green beans, ingredients that I consider to be highly nutritional. For some reasons, I tend to blend most of my foods these days with fruits and vegetables since I realized their health benefits. I also like to use lots of onions while making this spaghetti recipe, same thing goes for Nigerian tomato stew and other tomato-made foods. While I tend to focus more on Nigerian indigenous cuisines, I will also occasionally introduce you to other borrowed or recently invented Nigerian food recipes. The likes of spaghetti/macaroni and indomies (children’s most popular food) only came into the picture just some few years back. Here is a deliciously made spaghetti meal. Spaghetti Recipe Spaghetti is another Nigerian popula...

Nigerian Catfish Pepper Soup (popularly known as Point & Kill) is that Nigerian pepper soup that is usually eaten in exclusive Nigerian bars and restaurants. Even if you can get Nigerian Pepper Soup in any road side restaurant, you'll need to dig deep to find restaurants where you can have the correct Point & Kill. So why is it called Point & Kill? LOL Usually when a group of guests arrive at these exclusive bars and order Catfish Pepper Soup, at least one of the group will need to go to a big bowl where some live catfish are swimming around and point out a catfish. The catfish will then be killed in the guest's presence and taken away for preparation. So you see; you point and it is killed for you! lol Ingredients for Catfish Pepper Soup 500g Cat Fish 4 Ehu or Ariwo or Calabash Nutmeg seeds Habanero Pepper or chilli pepper (to taste) A few scent leaves 2 medium onions Salt (to taste) 2 big stock cubes   Alternative Ingredi...

The key to cooking juicy chicken without a spit in this healthy recipe is high heat and dark meat. The yogurt in the marinade gives the chicken both its tender texture and its alluring char. More yogurt in the sauce, along with crunchy cucumbers and herbs, keeps the flavors bright.   Ingredients         ¾ cup whole-milk plain yogurt, divided     1 small yellow onion, grated     2 tablespoons lemon juice, divided     3 cloves garlic, pressed or finely grated, divided     2 teaspoons ground coriander     2 teaspoons ground cumin     1 teaspoon ground allspice     1 teaspoon ground p...

"No more dry, lackluster burgers. These are juicy, and spices can be easily added or changed to suit anyone's taste. Baste frequently with your favorite barbeque sauce. If you find the meat mixture too mushy, just add more bread crumbs until it forms patties that hold their shape." Ingredients 2 pounds ground beef 1 egg, beaten 3/4 cup dry bread crumbs...

Ogbono soup (draw soup) is one of the most popular soups in Nigeria. Here, you will learn how to make this delicious soup and why it falls into the list of Nigerian popular soups.   You will also find a video on making Nigerian Ogbono (ogbolo) soup at the bottom of this page. While searching the web I have learned that there are over forty different soups that are eaten in Nigeria and there are probably about a hundreds of other foods, the list would likely run into thousands if both fruits were counted. Here we talked about the process involved in making Nigerian draw soup. This soup is actually easy to prepare because almost all of its ingredients could be prepared by traders in the market, making it very easy for the cook. What you find above is a delicious plate of ogbono soup, I used just a handful of uziza leaves Although, most people prefer this soup without leaves, the video below was made with bitter leaves. You can substitute different leaves fo...