Nigerian Food Recipies

Agbalumo-Banana Ice cream Quick and nice  Ice cream. No special equipment required in this 3 ingredient ice cream of  Agbalumo , which is composed  Frozen Bananas and condensed milk. One-ingredient ice creams are a firm favourite with me – essentially, a fruit puree that stars bananas. Frozen. Hence the texture and cream and sweet. Now, I’m not a fan of bananas in  smoothies  or desserts as such, but this works out beautifully for me. The ‘one-ingredient ice cream’ has the richness of dairy desserts and the sweetness too, yet without the making of custard, the long sets and all the other intricacies called for by  true ice creams . And all that’s required for the base is frozen, ripe bananas. My version is a three-ingredient ice cream, with frozen bananas,  Agbalumo puree  and a touch of condensed milk. I would have used my food processor except I couldn’t find the lid  and so I ended up with my b...

Catfish pepper soup can also be called point and kill. It  is one of Nigerian’s most popular evening recipes. I have been putting this away for a very long time because of the complexity of the recipe. I had planned to make this recipe even before the launch of the “Easy guide to delicious Nigerian Foods”, one of the best products ever made in the Nigerian Kitchen. Catfish pepper soup (point and kill) is the most popular fish pepper soup in Nigeria. We also have cow tail peppersoup,  goat meat pepper soup  and several others  Recipes in Nigeria . I like Nigerian foods to the point that I find it difficult to cope in a foreign environments. Well, I think this is justifiable, I have been making Nigerian foods right from my eleventh birthday. I think the first food I ever made was  vegetable soup  with cow liver, my dad insisted and I had no option but to obey. Below is the image of catfish pepper soup, the popular point and kill peppersoup tha...

There are two different Egusi Soup recipes that I know about, I will write about the most popular recipe and then the second would follow somewhere down the page. What you find below is a delicious plate of egusi soup, served with fufu. Ingredients Includes Some are required while very few are optional. Meat of choice 2kg (beef, chicken turkey, goat meat, or assorted meat) Assorted meat is a combination of different parts of a cow 4 cups of egusi (melon) Dry fish (about two medium sizes) 1 cup of ground crayfish 1 cup of Ground Osu (optional) a good quantity of washed bitterlaef (see the video below) 3 cubes of knorr, maggi or other natural sweetener 250ml of palm oil About 2 liters of water Salt and pepper to taste. One medium size Stock fish head (okporoko) (optional) Ogiri or dawadawa or opkei (local ingredients) optional Grind the four cups of egusi with a dry blender or hand grinding machine and set aside in a bowl. Add about  a cup of water to it an...