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 [...]

Ogbono / Ogbonon/ African wild Mango Soup

Ogbono refers to the seed of the African wild mango.(known amongst the Yoruba’s as ORO), although the mango with  which the seed comes is edible, they are usually harvested only for their nuts, [...]

How to Peel beans for AKARA Or Moin Moin

Here are two options for peeling beans used in traditional recipes like moimoi, gbegiri and akara. Traditional beans peeling is done by hand or with a mortal.  I will be showing both machine [...]

Basmati Coconut Rice Recipe

My Modern take on the Nigerian style Coconut rice. Coconut Basmati Rice (Makes enough for 5adults) Ingredients: 1 tablespoon Virgin coconut oil ¼ cup red onion (chopped) 2 cups coconut milk 2 cubes [...]

Oven Baked Coconut Shrimp

Oven Baked Coconut Shrimp   Ingredients 8 raw large shrimps ( Cleaned and deveined) ½  a lime or lemon(Juiced) ½ teaspoon each ( salt and black pepper) ½ tsp seasoning salt ¼ cup [...]

How to Make Ayamase (Ofada Stew/Sauce)

  Nigerian Ayamase sauce AKA Ofada Sauce/Stew  Nigerian Ayamase / Ofada Stew Recipe Funny enough, the Ofada sauce got it name from the local rice it is usually served with (Ofada [...]