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 [...]

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 [...]