Nigerian Salad
Nigerian Salad

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, nigerian salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

If you are lucky to buy a baby cucumber, it may not be necessary to remove the seeds. Nigerian Salad can be eaten alone or as a side dish to Jollof Rice , Coconut Rice , Fried Rice and other Nigerian rice dishes. The classic Nigerian Salad recipe is a very lively salad.

Nigerian Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Nigerian Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook nigerian salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Nigerian Salad:
  1. Make ready 1 medium bunch of cabbage
  2. Get 5 medium sized carrots
  3. Make ready 4 big eggs
  4. Prepare 1 handful green beans
  5. Get 1 bottle salad cream or Mayonnaise
  6. Make ready 425 g sweet corn (2 small tins)
  7. Get 5 sized irish potatoes
  8. Get 1 handful peas
  9. Prepare 1 tin Baked beans in tomato sauce comes in a 200 gram can)
  10. Make ready Ketchup (optional)

Well, delicious as it may seem, it defeats the purpose of your fit fam; if that's your reason for making. Nigerian Salad is a staple at most Nigerian parties. It is absolutely flavourful, colourful and tasty. It can be eaten as a side or as a main dish.

Steps to make Nigerian Salad:
  1. Before you start with the  Salad - Tips - -Wash all the vegetables separately in sufficient water (add a spoonful of vinegar, baking soda or lemon juice to the water to help kill harmful bacteria). Rinse thoroughly in fresh water. - - – Boil the green peas and green bean for 2 minutes, strain it out and using the same pot, boil the eggs and potatoes together, the potatoes might cook before the eggs, so take it out when it is done and let the eggs boil until hard boiled. - - Set them aside for later use.
  2. Peel of the egg shells and slice the eggs as thinly as you can. - - Peel of the skin of the boiled potatoes and cut into small cubes. - - – Slice the cabbage into tiny strips, then wash again and strain to remove excess water. Set aside for later use. - Tip: (the cabbage might store ants or pesticide in its leaves, that’s why it needs to be washed again after slicing) .
    • Scrape the carrots and shred with a grater. Set aside for later use. - - – Scrape off the green skin of the cucumber (optional), cut into two equal halves, remove the seeds(you can eat it if you like) and then cut into small cubes. Set aside for later use.
  4. Open the can of sweet corn, pour into a sieve to strain out the preservation water. Set the corn aside for later use. - - – Open the can of  baked beans, pour into a small bowl and set aside for later use. - - Now that you have all the ingredients ready, it’s time to put them together.
    1. Get a large salad bowl and place the vegetables in the bowl, layer by layer until there’s nothing left.  -   - 2. Place the sliced eggs on the prepared salad, and also spread the baked beans.
    1. Now, cover the salad bowl and chill in the fridge until needed. - -  4.  Finally serve with the salad cream(or mayonnaise), and Enjoy.

Nigerian salad comprises of many vegetables and one important salad dressing 'Heinz salad cream'. I couldn't bring myself to eating Nigerian salad when I was very young, as all that kept staring at me in the face was just greens and a tangy sour salad dressing. In fact, I have a very memorable story about me and Nigerian salad. Nigerian salad is like no other. Like seriously why have potato salad or vegetable salad or one of the salads when you can have them all in one? lol.my Nigerian people don't do things halfway for real.

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