Three-Ingredient Cheese Scones

This is the easiest scone recipe you'll ever use – and you only need three ingredients! The result is light, fluffy and delicious.

Prep time:10 minsCook time:20 minsMakes:12

2½ cups self-raising flour
2½ cups grated tasty cheese
2 cups (600g) greek yoghurt


Preheat oven to 200 ̊C fanbake and line an oven tray with baking paper.

Combine flour and 2 cups cheese in a bowl, adding a little salt if you like. Add yoghurt and bring together with a knife to make a soft dough.

Drop 12 scoops onto prepared tray and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake until cooked through and golden (15-20 minutes).

Chia Nut Pudding

This bircher type breakfast will set you up for the day with bountiful goodness.

Cook time:10 mins + standingServes:4Makes:4 cups

Ingrediants:
½ cup raw cashews
¼ cup raw hazelnuts
3 cups milk or nut milk
¼ cup LSA (ground linseed, sunflower seed and almond mix)
3 tbsp honey
1½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cored apples, skin on, grated
¼ cup chia seeds

To serve
natural or coconut yoghurt
kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
oranges, peeled and sliced
cinnamon, to dust (optional)



Whizz the nuts in a blender to a fine powder. Combine with the rest of the ingredients in a large jar or bowl. Cover and chill overnight or up to 5 days until needed.

Serve topped with yoghurt, kiwifruit and oranges. Dust with cinnamon before serving, if desired.

Best-Ever Banana Cake

Sweet, ripe bananas are the key to making a great banana cake. If you'd like me to show you how to cook the perfectbanana cake check out my blog The Ultimate Banana Cake.Prep time:15 minsCook
time:1 hour (less for smaller cakes)Makes:1 large cake, 4 small cakes or 12 muffin-sized cakes

250g butter, at room temperature
1½ cups sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 very ripe bananas, peeled and mashed (about 2 cups)
2 tsp baking soda
½ cup hot milk
3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder

Lemon Icing:
50g butter, at room temperature
3 cups icing sugar
3 tbsp lemon juice
½ tbsp hot water


Preheat oven to 170°C fanbake. Line a medium (23cm-diameter) cake tin with baking paper or prepare four 10cm-diameter tins (recycled 425g tuna cans are perfect – just make sure they don't have a plastic coating inside) or 12 muffin tins.

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then vanilla and bananas.

Dissolve baking soda in hot milk, add to mixture and stir to combine.

Sift in flour and baking powder and fold gently into mixture using a big spoon and a large scooping action to keep the mixture light. Do not over mix.

Spoon mixture into prepared tin(s) and smooth top(s). Bake until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean and the top is springy to the touch. One large cake will take 50-60 minutes, allow 45-55 minutes for medium cakes and about 20 minutes for muffin-sized cakes. Allow to cool in tin(s) and then turn out. Ice when cool. Store in a sealed container in a cool place for 2-3 days or freeze.

To make the Lemon Icing, beat together butter, icing sugar, lemon juice and hot water until creamy. Spread over cake.

Easy Banana Cake

Equipment
1 saucepan

Ingredients
125 g butter
3/4 cup caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg
2 banana mashed ripe
1 1/2 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup milk

Method
STEP 1Melt the butter, sugar and vanilla in a medium sized saucepan.
STEP 2Remove from heat.
STEP 3Add mashed bananas and stir through until just blended.
STEP 4Add egg and mix in well. Stir in flour, add milk and mix lightly.
STEP 5Bake at 170C for approximately 40 minutes.

Notes

I adapted this from a recipe that calls for creaming butter and sugar together as I can't stand doing this. I recalled a recipe from years ago that melted these ingredients in a saucepan. It's so easy and takes so much less time.

Nigerian Indomie Noodle Recipes

Here are my Indomie recipes, kids love it as well as adults
Indomie noodles have been able to capture the appetite of most Nigerians with series of good products and of course their often captivating commercials.


They have succeeded in adding their range of products to the menu of most Nigerian homes, ours included. Like I said on the introductory page, I never thought indomies were also for adults until I made and tasted a particular recipe.

I would go further to list different ways to prepare indomie in Nigeria, the three different recipes that I know about and why kids have come to love and appreciate the noodles.

I am writing about this page because I wanted to make a list of all known Nigerian breakfast recipes, from complex breakfast recipes to easy ones.

I told you that a combination of tea and bread is the most popular breakfast recipe in Nigeria, this noodle will either fall in third or fourth place.

Here is how to make indomie noodles in Nigerian and all the extra ingredients that I like to add, the extra ingredients tend to spice up the color of the indomie.

Personally I have to say that I like to eat lots of onions and other vegetables because of their nutritional values.

This noodles is packed with all the necessary ingredients that is needed for preparing it but I just like to add either all or some of the ingredients listed below.

Fresh tomatoes

Onions

Fresh pepper

Fluted pumpkin leaves

Eggs

vegetable oil
I use them as I like.

Note: there are several other noodle makers in Nigeria that have similar products like indomies, while many of them have gone extinct some a still very much around.

Here is my first and most popular indomie recipe, the way it serves best for breakfast.

I make this recipe with two sachets of (small indomies), two eggs, 1 big bulb of onions, 3 balls of fresh tomatoes and fresh pepper to taste.

The process is very simple.

Pieces the indomie in a bowl and pour hot water to it, allow for about five minutes for the noodles to get soft.

Set your frying pan on fire, add sliced tomatoes, onions, fresh pepper and fry for about five minutes also.

Sieve the indomie noodles (remove water) then add the follow-come ingredients while still in the bowl, at this point the noodles will be both soft and hot. I like to use one for two just to minimize the sweetness (that is using the ingredient from one sachet to prepare two sachets).

Break the two eggs into the same bowl containing the noodles and stir together, then transfer to the frying pan and finish up with the rest of the preparation process.

The frying pan contains the fried tomatoes onions and peppers, cook and stir for about five minutes and you just made one of my favorite Nigerian breakfast recipes, serve with cold soft drinks.

Below is the video for this recipe.

Here is another noodle recipe, this particular one is very popular in Lagos state where I live, I like this best in the morning or afternoon.

You just make the noodles following the instruction on the pack, then serve with fried eggs.


I like to add onions and fresh pepper. There is no special trick here, just break the indomies to bits and start cooking with a about a cup of water, sliced onions and fresh peppers.

This is the latest indomie recipe from the Nigerian kitchen, I kinda love this so much because of the use of sweet corn, carrot green beans and a few other vegetable. We have a professional video for this recipe. I would like to see your comment below, tell me what you think.

Nigerian Beans Recipes

Like I said before, Ewa (beans) and bread is a very popular breakfast recipe in Lagos Nigeria and because I want to make this site as comprehensives as possible I don’t want to leave out any important food

The above image is not porridge beans, the recipe is completely different from other Nigerian beans recipes, you cook the beans separately and then make a special kind of stew. You will learn to make this stew the exact way it is made in Yoruba land where I live.


Here are the basic ingredients, although some other local herbs are used optionally in some cases.

Half cup of dry ground pepper
15cl of palm oil
A cube of maggi or knorr
1 bulb of onions
Ground ginger

Tomatoes are not used in making this special kind of stew, just ground dry pepper and red oil (palm oil), although some people eat the same food with the normal Nigerian Tomato Stew

Here is how to prepare stew for ewa (beans) in the Yoruba land.

Pour the palm oil into a pot and set on fire, allow to heat for about three minutes but don’t allow to bleach. Then add the ground dry peppers and fry for about ten minutes, just keep stirring occasionally for ten minutes.

Then add the onions, ground ginger, a cube of maggi, cook for another five minutes and you are done.
Serve with the beans,


Here is how to make yet another simple Nigerian food (Porridge beans), one of the different Nigerian beans recipes. Porridge beans in Nigeria are often cooked alongside yam or plantain. It could serve both as lunch and dinner.

This particular recipe is very popular in the south and eastern part of Nigeria, the Igbo tribe of Nigeria is very familiar with this recipe so if you want to make porridge beans the exact way an IGBO woman would like to make it, here is your best guide.

Ingredients (for 5 serving)
3 to 4 cups of beans
Red oil (10cl)
About 5 to 10 balls of tomatoes (cut to bits)
2 balls of onions
Vegetable (optional)
Potash (very small, about half baby spoon)(optional)(I don’t use it)
Crayfish (1 cup blend)
Knorr cube (2 cubes) or any spice of choice.
Salt and pepper to taste.

The last time I ate beans and yam was in my village, made by my mum, I think beans and ripe plantain is a better combination, partly because ripe plantain tend to add a natural sweetness and also because kids like it.

Here is how to prepare beans recipe in Nigeria:

Select the beans to remove impurities (sands) then parboil for about 5 to 10 minutes, wash and start cooking with just water.

At this point most people tend to add a little bit of potash to hasten the process but it is highly not advisable. I add about 2 balls of sliced onions at this point (after boiling for about 10 minutes alone.), this has shown to serve the same purpose as potash, although with a slightly slow impact.

Boil until it is soft for consumption or at least 95 percent done, you can check by taking some on your cooking spoon and pressing against the spoon, it takes about one hour or a little more to cook beans if you are doing it the natural way (without potash).

Add the blended crayfish, palm oil, knorr (2 cubes) salt and pepper.

Add a little water if necessary.

Sprinkle the sliced tomatoes/onions and vegetables on the top and cover to cook for 10 to 15 minutes and you have delicious bean porridge.

I like to add tomatoes and vegetable to porridge beans because they are both a good source of vitamins and also serves for decoration purposes.

There are so many other beans recipe in Nigeria,

If you have eaten bread and ewa before please use the comment box below to tell me about it.

Cat Fish Peppersoup

Catfish pepper soup is one of Nigerian’s most popular evening recipes. I have been putting this away for a very long time because of the complexity of the recipe. I had planned to make this recipe even before the launch of the “Easy guide to delicious Nigerian Foods”, one of the best products ever
made in the Nigerian Kitchen.

Catfish pepper soup (point and kill) is the most popular fish pepper soup in Nigeria. We also have cow tail peppersoup, goat meat pepper soup and several others Recipes in Nigeria.

I like Nigerian foods to the point that I find it difficult to cope in a foreign environments. Well, I think this is justifiable, I have been making Nigerian foods right from my eleventh birthday. I think the first food I ever made was vegetable soup with cow liver, my dad insisted and I had no option but to obey.

Below is the image of catfish pepper soup, the popular point and kill peppersoup that is served in major restaurants and bars in Nigeria. You will find the video for this recipe at the bottom of this page. I used most of the necessary ingredients, except a very popular ingredient that was hard to find at the time of making this delicious dessert – Utazi.

Utazi is a slightly bitter leaf that is used in making a few Nigerian foods. I used these ingredients while making Nkwobi, pepper soup and African salad. Have you seen my page on how to make African salad (Abacha), it is one of the most popular and the easiest to make Igbo recipe.

So here are the ingredients for making point and kill (cat fish) peppersoup, you will end up with a very delicious recipe if you use the ingredients as listed below and also learn to incorporate them the exact way it was done in the video below. I will try my best to explain how to make cat fish peppersoup in this article too.

I used just a medium sized catfish while making the video below, so this is the exact size of ingredients that I used. You can choose to increase or decrease depending on the number of persons you are looking to feed and the number/size of the cat fish you are preparing .

This would serve 4 to 5 people.

1 medium sized catfish – 1.2KG
One big bulb of onions
Scent leaves (a handful)
Utazi leaves (very little)
1 maggi cube (spices)
Lion peppersoup spices
Kitchen glory (beef seasoning) (a sachet)
Half cup of ground crayfish
fresh pepper
salt to taste.

It is better to use a smaller pot while making peppersoup so that all the ingredients would easily soak with the fish or meat, and it wouldn’t take lots of water to get the fish submerged in water. Watch the video for catfish pepper soup below to get a view of what I am talking about.
Here is How to make point and kill peppersoup in Nigeria.

We start by washing the fishes thoroughly, most people fail to do this properly. Normally, the fish is cut in the market by the seller to serve-able sizes so just transfer into a bowl and soak with hot water at 80 – 90 degree Celsius, very boiled water will end up peeling the skin of the fish.

Wash to remove the slimy outer layer completely.

Prepare all the necessary ingredients, I had to pound the fresh red pepper and half cup of crayfish together with a mortar and pestle. Also slice the utazi leaves, Uziza, onions and scent leaves and set aside in a bowl.

Transfer the washed cat fish into the cooking pot, like I advised above, it is better to use a small pot where the fish parts are very close to each other, this will allow the proper incorporation of the ingredients and help you make a very delicious point and kill peppersoup.

I think we are done with the hard part, fishes take about ten to fifteen minutes to cook, that is just the cat fish. Electric fish and a few other fish found in Nigeria take just about five minutes to prepare.

Once you have transferred into a pot, start cooking. Allow to boil before adding all the ingredients. Before that, make sure you add enough water at least until the fish parts are completely submerged in water. Then start with salt, followed by a cube of maggi, crayfish plus pepper, you can add the leaves now or later.

Make sure the ingredients are not suspended at the top.

Cook for three to five minutes then add the onions and all the leaves, I also added another favorite spice (kitchen glory) and the lion peppersoup spice, this spices are available in Nigeria and maybe a few other countries of the world.

There are basic ingredients for making cat fish (point and kill) peppersoup, however, you are free to spice up with flavors and spices of choice.