Month: May 2017

Nigerian Cuisine

Nigerian Seasonal Produce: Pepper Fruit, #5

‘Nigerian Seasonal Produce’ is a monthly column published on the last Saturday of each month. In this column, a writer explores a specific seasonal fruit, vegetable or leafy green assigned by the editors of Kitchen Butterfly and based on the Nigerian Seasonal Produce Calendar. Our author this month is Ramon – serial experimenter, documenter, eater with a le cordon […]

Nigerian Cuisine, Travel & Exploration

Nigerian ‘Concept’ Dish: Dry Fish Skin-Local Jollof ‘Sushi’

The Concept This concept is about sushi, Japanese rice rolls. Years ago, I attended a sushi workshop in the Netherlands and fell in love with the perfect bites of rice wrapped in seaweed sheets. Here, I’ve combined ‘traditional’, palm-oil based flavours using gorgeous dry fish skin instead of the nori sheets, smoky rice and fresh […]

Nigerian Cuisine

The Nigerian Mother Sauce

Tomato. ‘Stew’. The mother. If ever there was a mother sauce to define Nigerian cuisine, this is it – this blend of tomatoes, red onions and peppers. It is the base of a lot of things to come out of the Nigerian kitchen.  You’d be hard-pressed to find a sauce of more importance to the Nigerian […]