Awara cabbage salad (Tofu Cabbage Salad) is a quick and easy salad made with a few everyday ingredients. It is healthy, delicious, and a simple versatile side dish similar to coleslaw. Awara cabbage salad can be served as a main dish along with shrimp, chicken, fish, steak etc. It is […]
Rice salad is a simple salad thrown together with whatever vegetables, proteins, herbs you enjoy eating with your rice. The ingredients are also mostly what you already use for other salads e.g. Nigerian vegetable salad, Sweetcorn salad. It will work with most kinds of rice and also works perfectly with […]
tIIghu (Abacha) is made from a tuber of the same name whose stem is thorny. It is similar to abacha which is made from processing cassava tuber. The processing of ighu is similar to that of abacha, while processed abacha is white (sometimes cream), ighu is cream or a light […]
Christmas season, food, food and even more food. Delicious, seam bursting food!!! So… Are you stumped for food ideas? Are you bored with the same old menu? Are you nervous about cooking for relatives and friends? Do you want to make spectacular food on the cheap? Do you want to impress […]
Easy Potato salad is comfort food that is simple with few ingredients. It is sweet and salty with a mild tang or acidity. Served as a side dish, it is hearty and filling. With so many meat dishes being prepared for the Christmas season, Potato Salad makes an ideal side […]
Mixed Beans salad is a healthy and colourful salad, it is gluten-free and vegetarian. The combination of different kinds of beans gives a great burst of protein and it is filling. Beans salad is a simple side dish you can throw together in a moment especially if you use canned beans. It is beautiful […]
In Nigeria, the success of a party is judged by the quantity, variety and availability of food and drink. Variety is a key factor, most especially, variety in meat, fish and other seafood dishes. Sometimes, the variety is so much that they are brought out in phases. This could include […]
Sweet Corn salad is a bright, colourful and fresh-tasting salad. It is quick and easy to make, and always a hit when served to guests. The ingredients are few and basic and the dressing very simple. It allows the sweet corn to shine as the star of the salad. You […]
Chicken salad with candied carrot coins, those candied carrot coins make it extra special. Chicken salad is basically any salad with chicken as its main ingredient. There is no right or wrong way to make it or right or wrong ingredient. It is really a combination of things that floats your […]
Coleslaw is basically a cabbage salad, with a sprinkling of carrot for maybe colour or whatever. In different parts of the world, there are variations of coleslaw but the Nigerian coleslaw is very basic. It is cabbage with a good proportion of carrots and a moderate amount of mayonnaise. It […]
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