Recipes from Nigeria
Nigerian cooking is bold and communal — smoky jollof rice debated across the region, egusi soup thickened with melon seed and bitter greens. Palm oil, scotch bonnet, generous portions, no whispering.
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Jollof Rice
Jollof rice is West Africa's most widely eaten and passionately contested dish — a tomato-based one-pot rice cooked in a thick base of blended tomatoes,…
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Egusi soup
Egusi soup is Nigeria's soul food — a thick sauce made from toasted and ground egusi seeds (a relative of bitter melon), cooked in red palm oil with meat…