Tips/How-tos

palmnut extract 1 How to process palm fruit using a food processor

How to process palm fruit using a food processor

A lot of people love food made with palm fruit but the processing of the palm fruits manually using mortar and pestle is so tedious, they shy away from cooking such food. Others resort to canned palm nut cream concentrate, nothing wrong with that, just that it is a divided […]

macaroni 1 1 14 Tips for cooking Pasta.

14 Tips for cooking Pasta.

For some home cooks, cooking pasta well can be a hit or miss. Some days mushy, some days all stuck together and other days dry, sometimes the dish tastes like the ingredients didn’t quite get inside the pasta. These 14 tips for cooking pasta will help solve most of the […]

dry fish 1 9 How to wash Dry fish

How to wash Dry fish

Dry fish is an important ingredient in Nigerian cuisine. Fish is smoked till it dries, during the smoking process, the fish oils are released which stay on the fish skin, this attracts dust and sand. Sometimes bugs go into the flesh. To wash dry fish properly before consumption is very […]

Nigerian Dryfish

About Nigerian Dryfish

Nigerian dryfish is fish that has been slowly smoked over a period of time until it is dehydrated and dry. Different species of fish are dried and sold, some tastier than others. Both large and small sized fish are dried for consumption. Some are cut into pieces before drying, others […]

cocoyam 1 2 How to process cocoyam for soup

How to process cocoyam for soup

Cocoyam is a starchy edible root of which there are several varieties. It can be boiled, fried or roasted, depending on the variety. Cocoyam is typically used as a thickener in soups like ora, bitter leaf (onugbu), ofe ukpom and ofe ugu. For this purpose, it has to be cooked and pounded […]

beans powder 1 How to make beans powder

How to make beans powder

To make Beans powder is very easy. Homemade beans powder tastes way better than the store bought brands I have tasted so far. There are no additives, just pure unadulterated beans. It can be re-hydrated into beans paste for use in cooking Moi-moi, akara, etc. It is a life saver […]

bitter leaf 1 7 How to dry or dehydrate bitter leaf (Onugbu)

How to dry or dehydrate bitter leaf (Onugbu)

For long storage, especially for those who can’t readily access bitter leaf, or for variety in Ogbono soup, dry bitter leaf is a necessity. I always buy the pre-washed bitter leaf from the market, which I then dry. Before I dry or dehydrate bitter leaf, I normally soften it, this […]

onugbu soup 1 6 How to soften bitter leaf

How to soften bitter leaf

You will need to soften bitter leaf most times before use in soup, ukwa, etc., especially the dehydrated bitter leaf, since it is a very rugged leaf. It also needs to be washed thoroughly to remove the bitterness inherent in it. Some people boil the leaf with akanwu/kaun to soften […]

bitter leaf 1 14 How to wash out bitterness in fresh bitter leaf

How to wash out bitterness in fresh bitter leaf

Bitter leaf as the name implies is very bitter, and for it to be used in a large quantity for cooking as a vegetable, the bitterness needs to be washed out. Like I said in my post on Bitter leaf soup/Onugbu soup, to wash out bitterness in fresh bitter leaf […]