Foods Eaten in Nigeria and how to make fried rice.

There are many meals eaten in Nigeria and I need to record the few widespread ones after which an in depth information on make fried rice – one in every of my favorites.

Are you married to a Nigerian man and finds your self in a good nook in relation to making meals for him or anxious about his urge for food or craving for hand-crafted meals, do you discover it complicated that Nigerians in Diaspora usually really feel excited after they discover Nigeria meals? The reason being easy; we used to say that – there is no such thing as a place like residence or hand-crafted meals.

Most meals eaten in Nigerian are straightforward and sometimes straight ahead to make. The preferred meals in Nigeria is Eba popularly referred to as (garri). Eba goes with any of the various Nigerian soups and might be substituted with fufu, semo, amarla or wheat meal.

Eba and fufu are by-products of cassava, whereas fufu is made by fermenting cassava for 3 to 4 day and sieving out the chaff, eba is commonly easier in making. Eba which can also be referred to as (garri) is made by peeling off the again of cassava, then grounding and frying on a dry sizzling pot.

There are many soups eaten in Nigerian that may go together with eba, fufu, or semo. The preferred Nigerian soup is the egusi soup (melon) it’s usually very straightforward to organize or at the least very straightforward for me to organize. Egusi soup can be eaten with white rice.

That is nearly few of the Nigerian widespread meals I simply need to focus particularly on prepare dinner fried rice – The preferred Nigerian recipe. Fried rice takes about one to 2 hour to organize and the true work is the preparation of issues utilized in making fried rice as an alternative of the particular cooking.

Elements embrace:

3 cups of rice

1 to 2 desk spoon-full of curry powder

2 ball of onions

Medium sized cabbage

2 to three medium sized carrot

11/2 cups of chopped inexperienced beans

About 1/5 kg of liver

Meat of selection (beef, turkey, hen) most individuals favor hen in Nigeria

2 to three cubes of maggi

inexperienced peas (non-obligatory)

Salt and pepper to style.

The preparation:

Parboil the meat with meat components (curry/thyme powder, 1 maggi dice, 1 ball of onions and salt) for about 10 to fifteen minutes. It’s usually essential to parboil this meat with these components simply to finish up with a tasteful meat.

Add extra water to the meat and prepare dinner till it’s mushy for consumption. then pick from the water and deep-fry in groundnut/vegetable oil (leaving out the meat water on the pot)

Chop the carrot, cabbage, inexperienced beans, inexperienced pepper, and liver then put aside on totally different bowls.

Then parboil the three cups of rice and prepare dinner white until it’s about 75% finished.

How To Make Fried Rice:

Like I acknowledged initially that the cooking of fried rice in Nigeria is kind of easy, essentially the most tedious side is the preparation of issues utilized in cooking it.

Set your cooking pot on fireplace, enable drying earlier than including groundnut/vegetable oil (the one utilized in frying the meat would do) use about 15 to twenty cl of oil, enable to warmth then add the chopped carrot and inexperienced beans.

Fry for 2 to a few minutes and add the peas (non-obligatory), add the curry powder to get a really yellowish combination. (the curry powder really give Nigerian fried rice its yellowish colour.

Add the chopped cabbage, stir and add the liver and inexperienced pepper. Pour within the left over water from the parboiled meat, add maggi/salt and pepper to style, make them a bit in extra as a result of the rice will take up many of the components.

At this level you’re nearly finished. Add the white rice, stir/flip very effectively, cowl your pot and prepare dinner for an additional 5 to 10 minutes. Serve with the fried meat and mushy drink of selection.

That is make Nigerian fried rice; I advised you it’s straightforward.