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

Oven Baked Sweet Potatoes

For Oven roasted sweet potatoes, Olive oil and salt are essential. All other spices are extras, experiment with Chilli, basil, thyme e.t.c until you find your flavor. Regular bread contains very few ingredients [...]

Potato Medley

Ingredients: 4 large potatoes ( sweet or regular) 3 table spoons olive oil (Divided) 1/2  Cup Crab meat (optional) 4-6 cooked shrimps Mushrooms (1 cup chopped) 1/4 of a medium red onion (sliced) [...]

Health Benefits of Sweet Potatoes

Ever considered incorporating potatoes into your diet? I recently started toying with the idea of consuming less rice in order to diversify my diet .  The first carbohydrate source alternative I have tried [...]

Crayfish

A common ingredient in Nigerian Soups, Crayfish powder is made from dried blended "Crayfish" ( belonging to the lobster family) .Crayfish might sometime be used to reference dried blended prawns.

KuliKuli

KuliKuli is made from ground peanut. It is 99% peanut and 1% spices. KuliKuli is common in Northern Nigeria and serves as a perfect pairing for cold garri. It comes in different shapes [...]