About 9jafoodie

Nigeria born, African food blogger with relentless love for African cuisines. The ultimate dream is to make African food as modern mainstream as possible, while maintaining the traditional originality that make it so diverse

Efo Elewuro

   Efo Elewuro (Yoruba Style Bitter Leaf Soup) with Garri  This post is inspired by 1Qplatter; she recently posted bitter leaf soup recipe, the soup looked so delicious hen... I couldn’t contain myself. [...]

Quinoa Moimoi

Quinoa Moimoi with Custard The lovely Ify odunlami  posted a picture of Quinoa moi moi on so you think you can cook  about a week ago, I was super excited to try it [...]

Nigerian Asun (Smoked Goat) Recipe

Asun in Fried Plantain bowl Plantain Shell Recipe Posted Asun literally translates to “smoked”, used in the context of “small Chops” it describes the Smokey deliciousness that is spicy barbeque [...]

Afia Efere (White Soup)

Afia Efere (white soup)  My love affair with white soup started when I met my friend Flo in college, she made me a bowl of Efere with amazing chicken and I was sold [...]

Slow cooked Oxtail (Cowtail) Sauce

Cowtail sauce with Ofada This sauce was greatly inspired by the perfect marriage between ofada rice and Ayamase, I don’t think anything will ever replace Ayamase but this comes close. Why look for [...]

Health Benefits of Ewedu

Health and Beauty Benefits of Ewedu Leaves My grandma prepared Ewedu for us on our recent trip to Nigeria and it was delicious. For a certain member of the 9jafoodie team *cough* it [...]