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

Ofe Onugbu (Bitter Leaf Soup) Recipe

Ofe Onugbu (Bitter leaf soup) Ofe is the igbo word for Soup, it preludes most native soups that are specific to the ibo people of Eastern Nigeria. Onugbu is used to identify the [...]

Overripe Plantain Pancakes

I am super excited to bring you guys this recipe, I created it about two weeks ago because I had lots of excess plantains at home. I have recreated the recipe about 3 [...]

Nigerian Style Couscous

Until earlier this month, I had never tried Couscous. I have a thing against “fad” foods. On a recent trip to liquidation world, I found a box of organic couscous and the packaging [...]

Ofio (Tiger Nut)

Growing up in Nigeria, Tiger nuts were one of the things I saved my holiday money for. I enjoyed both fresh and dried tiger nuts. We waited anxiously all holiday  for the mallams [...]

Nigerian Leafy Vegetables

Eko (Agidi) and Vegetable Soup (Efo) List of Nigerian Vegetables used for cooking This post was inspired by Eko & Efo, a pride food combination amongst my father’s people. Efo [...]

Tilapia Pepper Soup

Nigerian PepperSoup Happy New Month!!!! This is my first recipe post in a long while, plenty apologies for my absence. Life has been super busy for myself and the 9jafoodie team, [...]