Six (6) Sides & Salads for your Easter Menu, Nigerian Style

A follow-on to Good Friday recipes. First Fish, now sides and salads.

To get started, read The Art of The Savoury Salad for ideas and recipes.

Here’s the collection:

Sauteed Greens

Green/ Amaranth leaves are sauteed with smoky fish and vegetables to give a tasty result.

Use spinach, kale or other greens for a similar result

Recipe

Sauteed Green Amaranth

Herbed Mango Salad

One of my favourite recipes with salad. Combine sliced mangoes with a simple scent leaf sauce and you’re in heaven.

Recipes for Mango salads – simple and with nuts

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Garden Egg Salad

A perfect way to serve up garden eggs and okwu-oji, but deconstructed.

Recipe 

Peanut dressed garden egg salad

Tapioca & Coconut Salad

Creamy, coconutty, filling, this salad is perfect for Good Friday. Topped with flaked fish – smoked mackerel (homesmoked if you like).

Recipe

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Green Pawpaw Salad

A gorgeous salad made with unripe pawpaws. Popular in Thailand, this could definitely become a Nigerian favourite.

Recipe

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Don’t want to make a green one? Then rustle up this ripe Pawpaw salsa.

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Olive Salad

This quick and easy salad with olives is a great accompaniment to fish dishes.

Recipe

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1 Comment

  1. Lovely Yummilicious. My fav is the Herbed Mango. The thought of mango sweetness + a burst of flavor from the herbs is getting me quite excited. Well done.

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