How to Prepare Nigerian Spaghetti Recipe

Here is a delicious recipe for spaghetti / pasta, Nigerian popular food. If you really want to enjoy spaghetti, give it a shot today. I tried several other recipes, which this proves to be the best of all.

  Particularly because of the use of carrots and green beans, the ingredients I consider very nutritious. For certain reason,i tend to mix most of my meals these days with fruits and vegetables since I became aware of their health benefits.

I really enjoy using a lot onion when preparing spaghetti recipe, the same for Nigerian tomato stew and other tomato-based foods.

Though i tend to focus more on indigenous Nigeria cuisine, also from time to time i introduce other food recipes Nigeria borrowed or newly invented. The spaghetti / pasta and noodle (the most popular meals for children) has only come in the picture a few years ago.

Here is a delicious dish of spaghetti.

Spaghetti is a Nigerian popular food and here's a delicious recipe, I've never been a great pasta fan until I tried this spaghetti recipe.

Below are the required ingredient, it could be double or shrink, depending on the number of people who you want to serve. You can have them in fridge for a day or two.
Ingredients for 5 serving.

• Spaghetti (1 sachet)
• 1 small tin tomatoes.
• 2 cups of sliced onions
• Fresh tomatoes (see image below)
• Fresh pepper (as much as you can take)
• Ground Crayfish (3 spoons)
• 3 cube of knorr or maggi
• Salt to taste
• 1 cup of sliced carrot.
• Sliced green beans (1 cup)
• 1kg Meat/fish or either (chicken, turkey, beef.. etc)
• Green pepper (optional).
• Ground nut or vegetable oil about 150ml
• Corned beef (optional)

Preparing my favorite spaghetti recipe

chop / cut carrots, green beans and green pepper to the desired size.

Below the depicted image of parboiled spaghetti in bowl, carrots and sliced tomato in a plate,green beans, onion and pepper. I used a combination of fish and cow's kidney and liver while preparing the spaghetti meals.

parboil meat and fish with all the ingredients, I like to use only 2 cube of maggi, a pinch of salt, onion and maybe a little ground nutmeg. parboiling only meat is a good practice, you have the opportunity to remove the stock from the meat which is part of Nigerian cuisine.

I usually parboil meat/fish in Nigerian dish with a glass of water and all necessary ingredients, this practice will allow you to end up with very tasty meat and provide meat stock (meat water) used in the production of most Nigerian foods. You can find out more about this practice later.

blend the crayfish and sliced tomatoes / peppers all together.

Break the Spaghetti to smaller lengths(eatable length) then parboil for 5 to 8 minutes, washed and kept aside. take meat/fish when it's soft enough for consumption, or you can choose not to fry, fry with 250 ml of groundnut oil (you can reduce the oil after frying it).

After frying the fish (you can reduce the oil if it exceeds 150 ml before adding tomatoes, fry and mix 3-5 minutes before adding the sliced ​​tomatoes / pepper and onions, fry it to dry-off water for 10-15 minutes (keep on steering occasionally to prevent burning)

Add a beef soup and a glass of water.

Then add all the ingredients above (cancer, salt to taste and simmer in the list.

Add spaghetti and cook for about 15-20 minutes while it's almost smooth, add the remaining onion and carrot and beans.

Cover the next 4 to 5 minutes just made a delicious meal of spaghetti, Nigeria's popular food

Making A Delicious Coconut Rice

The Coconut rice is not only a healthy meal but also a very delicious meal, mostly when a matured-sweet coconut is used, if you are looking forward to preparing this delicious meal but don’t know how to go about it, here is all the answers you need to know about preparing this delicious rice meal.

 This comes 2nd on my list of delicious rice meals. Right after salad sauce.

What you see is a simple coconut rice, super delicious. The only difference between the usual jollof rice and this is the use of cocoanut milk; it changes the taste and impairs the color slightly.


There are actually different recipe, some don’t use tomatoes, I have another recipe in the rice book that is called buttered coconut rice, it’s to die for.

First you should spend some time looking for the really matured cocoanut, one big cocoanut would be enough for 4 cups of rice which would probably serve a family of five or six.

When you  find the matured-dried cocoanut, the shell is usually dried. Break it, take a bite, if it is not sweet, start looking again. It is important to buy the really matured and sweet cocoanut, it make a whole lot of difference. It should really be somewhat sugary. If you are there, shout – yaw!!! And commence with the rest of the cooking.

The Ingredients for cocoanut rice Include (Serving – 6 Persons)
Coconut (one big ball)
3 cups of rice
Fresh ground or sliced tomatoes (500ml)
Chicken/beef (2KG)
Onions (2 bulbs)
Maggi cubes (2-3)
1 sachet Kitchen glory (beef seasoning)
Groundnut/vegetable oil half cup (150ml)
Salt and pepper to taste

Preparations

start by breaking and de-shelling the cocoanut (we don’t need the water inside, you can drink it – very healthy), grate (sort of grind) the coconut with a grater, the idea is to squeeze out the milk from the main coconut. Normally you grate the coconut with a grater and then add a cup of water or two and then squeeze out the white water (coconut milk) which is needed for the preparation of coconut rice. Filter the squeezed out milk and set aside in a bowl

Then Parboil about three to four cups of rice, grind the tomatoes/peppers (you need about 500ml), your blender should be calibrated, or you can slice the tomatoes if you like. Also parboil the chicken with all the necessary ingredients (Onions, Maggi, Salt, and Kitchen glory – beef seasoning), add water about five minutes later and allow cooking till it is soft for consumption.

After which you will Pick the chicken with a fork and deep fry while reserving the stock (water from the meat) for further cooking. Once you have gotten the water from the coconut and also fried the chicken… or not. Sometimes I just add the chicken without frying them.


Set your cooking pot on heat, add half cup (150ml) of vegetable/groundnut oil, allow heating for at least 90 seconds before adding the ground or sliced tomatoes. Now fry and stir the tomatoes for the next 10-15 minutes till it is dried.

Add the meat extract (water from the meat) once you are done with frying the tomatoes, also add the coconut milk, a cube of Maggi, add more salt to taste. Allow to boil before adding the rice, cook for the next twenty to forty minutes until it is very soft for consumption.

Then you can  now add a little more water along the line. Once it is soft enough to your desire, go ahead and serve with the fried meat, you just made a delicious pot of coconut rice

Serve with the cooked, fried or grilled chicken. Aside chicken you can also use goat meat, beef or assorted meat to make a delicious cocoanut rice meal.

Is this interesting? Do you like the meal? Any question? pls leave me a comment below on the comment section

Preparing Turmeric Rice (Yellow Rice)

Turmeric Rice is one of the very basic yet delicious rice recipes to prepare in your kitchen. There's no tomato stew to make in this recipe so don't bother about preparing this rice dish?

Ingredients

• A Long grain parboiled rice
  • If you stay in the USA/UK, use 2 cups.
  • If you stay in Nigeria, use ½ De Rica cup.
  • If you have a weighing scale, use 350g or you may use 0.8lbs.
• use 2 teaspoons turmeric powder
• use 1 teaspoon Nigerian curry powder
• use1 teaspoon black pepper powder
• use 1 small red onion
• use 2-3 cups chicken stock
• A small quantity of red pepper
• A handful green peas
• Salt (to taste)

Notes about the ingredients

This following image shows the quantities of some of the ingredients you may use.

1. Use enough turmeric powder to colour the rice. Please note that the rice may not look so yellow when you add the parboiled rice to the turmeric mix in the pot but when the rice is done, it will become very yellow.
2. Turmeric is known as yellow ginger in Nigeria. It is known as ajo or ata ile pupa in Yoruba and kurkum in Hausa. You can buy turmeric powder in big supermarkets eg Shoprite in Nigeria.
3. I used chicken stock for this recipe because I served the rice with Onion Baked Chicken. I used soft chicken which I baked from raw so no boiling of the chicken done to get some chicken stock. This means that for taste, I added chicken stock which I always have in my freezer. I get this chicken stock when I prepare side dishes like Peppered Chicken.
   
   If you want to prepare this with Fried Chicken or Grilled Chicken, cook the chicken with thyme, onions, stock cubes and whatever else you use to season your chicken. Then add the water from cooking that chicken (chicken stock) to the rice during Step 1 in the cooking directions.
4. If you are in Nigeria, red bell peppers are available in big foreign supermarkets. Use tatashe as alternative to the red pepper. The quantity of red pepper you need is so small, see the video below.

Before you cook Turmeric Rice or Yellow Rice

1. you have to Rinse and cut the red onions into small pieces.
2. Rinse, remove the seeds and cut the red pepper into small pieces.
3. Prepare the chicken you will serve it with. You can serve with Peppered Chicken or Onion Baked Chicken.
4. Parboil the long grain parboiled rice. For the quantity of rice stated above, add to boiling water, stir, cover the pot and once it boils again, leave to boil for 10 minutes or till you can easily cut the grain of rice with your finger nails.

Cooking Directions

1. Pour the chicken stock into a sizeable pot.
2. Then Add the turmeric powder, Nigerian curry powder and black pepper.
3. Cover and cook till it's boiled.
4. Add the parboiled rice, stir and make sure that the liquid in the pot is at the same level as the rice. If not, top it up.
5. Taste for salt and add some if necessary. Stir, cover again and start cooking on medium heat.
6. If you have parboiled the rice correctly as described above, the rice should be done by the time the water dries up. Taste to confirm. If not, you will need to add more water and reduce the heat to prevent burning. Continue cooking.
7. When you can no longer see the water in the rice, add the diced red pepper, onions and green peas. Stir only the top of the rice, cover and continue cooking.
8. The rice is done when all the water dries up.
9. Stir with a spatula till the vegetables and the rice are well combined.
10. That's all you need to make yourself happy!

For meat, serve with Peppered Chicken or Onion Baked Chicken. For side dishes, serve with Fried Plantain, Nigerian Moi Moi, Nigerian Salad or Coleslaw.

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for proper understanding you may want to watch the video below