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

Peanut Chicken StirFry

Peanut Chicken StirFry By Liberatedlibra For  this dish, I wanted to use up some of the veggies that I had lying around in the freezer. I had some leftover peas and carrots from [...]

Maggi (Bouillon cube)

The maggi Variety (Individual cubes) What is Maggi (Magi) in African cooking More often than not, African recipes call for the use of Maggi. maggi is a term that has been used to [...]

Peppered (Sauced) Gizzard

Sauced Gizzard: How to prepare peppered gizzard. Ingredients: 2 packs Gizzard (about 20 pieces) ½  teaspoon salt Sauce: (2 Fresh tomatoes, ½ a large onion,2 Scotch Bonnet (Ata Rodo) 1 large red pepper) [...]

African Yam Tuber

Common yam Variety First Pictured ( Cut and peeled yam, ready for frying) Second Pictured ( full yam tuber, unpeeled) Yam in African food/ Culture and Cuisine. This root vegetable is widely used [...]

Oven Baked Sausage Plantain

  This is a great new way to enjoy plantain as presented by SASA of Sasa's Kitchen Ingredients: 2 Ripe plantains 4 Beef (or any meat you like) Sausages 2cm ginger 4 garlic [...]

Yam and Plantain Porridge (Pottage)

Plantain and Yam Porridge / Pottage How to cook Nigerian Asaro (Yam Porridge / pottage) Ingredients: 10 medium cubes  African Yam  2 1/2  semi ripe plantain ¼ cup onion (Chopped) ¼ large onion [...]