Authentic Nigerian Food Recipes: Easy & Delicious African Dishes for Home Cooking | Perfect for Family Dinners & Cultural Celebrations
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An introduction to classic Nigerian home cooking featuring 100 delicious recipes by food explorer, culinary anthropologist, and Nigerian Native of @kitchenbutterfly fame, Ozoz Sokoh.In Nigeria, the word "chop" is all about food and feasting and "chop chop" a nickname given to someone who loves to eat. And it's no surprise Nigeria has an entire vocabulary dedicated to eating-with more than 50 nationally recognized languages and over 250 ethnicities, Nigeria's food is as rich and diverse as its people. This book reflects the foodways' incredibly flavorful complexity, ingredients, and recipes from all six regions, gathered and showcased in a highly photographic cookbook.In Chop Chop, author, culinary anthropologist, and Nigerian Native Ozoz Sokoh celebrates classic and traditional Nigerian cuisine to underscore the ingredients, flavors, and textures that make it not only beloved, but delicious and easy for the home cook. Featuring:· A COLLECTION OF CLASSIC AND TRADITIONAL NIGERIAN RECIPES: Think smoky spiced beef suya skewers, egusi soup with greens, restorative pepper soup, jollof rice studded with tomatoes, soft puff puff dough bites, and sweet-tart hibiscus drinks, and more from across the country.· LEXICON OF NIGERIAN CUISINE: Learn how to shop and cook like a Nigerian and learn about the ingredients integral to Nigerian cuisine, like nuts and seeds, greens, grains, and cereals (especially in the north), roots and tubers (favorites of the south), and proteins that come together on the plate in the form of hearty soups and stews, steamed puddings, salads, rice dishes, fritters, and more.· ILLUMINATING CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL EXPLORATIONS: With headnotes and sidebars that give important cultural and historical context, including how Nigerian cuisine travelled the globe leaving its mark, you will learn the deep roots behind dishes and drinks, and global foodways connections.· STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHY: With gorgeous photos from Nigeria's landscapes, food markets, and people, as well as beautiful photography of ingredients and finished dishes, Chop Chop is a cookbook to behold.Written through the lens of Ozoz's deep connection to the region, Chop Chop will bring Nigeria's food-loving spirit to home kitchens everywhere, so you can travel, by plate.
Customer Reviews
I'll admit that I had no prior interest in cooking Nigerian cuisine, until this book found me...Once I opened it and started reading, I found it increasingly intriguing. It's probably about as complete of a journey to explore this culture, short of visiting the country itself. It's warm, welcoming, authentic, informative, flexible (it honors traditional ingredients while fully acknowledging their potential inaccessibility in other parts of the world, and offers a table of substitute ingredients), nicely photographed, and certainly curated with love.I was actually surprised to find that many of these recipes are nostalgic to me! Not only ingredients, but some of the included dishes were ones that I remember from my own childhood; and making them took me right back to memories of big family gatherings that were always abundant with delicious foods. And several of the other recipes refreshed memories of when my son was young and we'd just moved to a new area - there was a small restaurant that we'd happened upon one day that became a quick favorite, until it shut down about a year later...and I kid you not, I've continued to think (for over a decade now) about how good the food was there. And now, I'm able to replicate some of those dishes in my home, and fondly remember how grateful I was to have found comfort food in an unfamiliar place. That gratitude now extends to all of those who worked on creating this book, for bringing those dishes back to me.Beyond my nostalgia, the recipes in this book that are new to me are intriguing. There are some I likely won't try (at least, not at this time in my life), but many more that are quite enticing. The only thing worth noting for others interested in ordering this cookbook, is that it's probably not a great choice for texture-eaters... Even still, everything that I've tried making from this book so far, I've enjoyed, on account of thoughtful flavors, and overall, I'm very happy that this book found me.
