{"id":32601,"date":"2019-08-11T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/?p=32601"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T05:48:49","slug":"how-to-make-nigerian-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/how-to-make-nigerian-stew\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Nigerian Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Nigeria, when one hears \u2018Fish stew\u2019, \u2018Chicken stew\u2019,etc, the first thing that comes to mind is the fish or chicken and not the stew itself (Tomatoes and other ingredients).<\/p>\n<p>Making a Nigerian stew can be done in so many ways but doesn\u2019t all yield the same result. That\u2019s the exact reason why we can talk about how to make a Nigerian stew and we won\u2019t be talking off point because you might have been doing it partially right and getting merely acceptable results.<\/p>\n<p>Below is my personal recommendation of making that awesome Nigerian tomato stew.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32603\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/how-to-make-nigerian-stew.png\" alt=\"how to make nigerian stew\" width=\"484\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/how-to-make-nigerian-stew.png 484w, https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/how-to-make-nigerian-stew-400x221.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How to make Nigerian stew: Tools needed<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Chopping board<\/li>\n<li>Blender<\/li>\n<li>Medium size bowl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How to make Nigerian stew: Ingredients<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomato (about 1 litre after blending)<\/li>\n<li>Vegetable oil<\/li>\n<li>2 seasoning cubes<\/li>\n<li>3 bulbs of onions<\/li>\n<li>Meat (chicken, beef, goat meat, turkey)<\/li>\n<li>Spices (curry, nutmeg, thyme)<\/li>\n<li>Salt (to taste)<\/li>\n<li>Pepper (to taste)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How to make Nigerian stew: Instructions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Wash the Tomatoes and the meat.<\/li>\n<li>Cut and cook the meat with about half table spoons of the spices.<\/li>\n<li>Blend the tomatoes to a very smooth plum with one bulb of onion.<\/li>\n<li>Put your dry cooking pot on fire and add vegetable oil. (A little bit much, so you can eliminate both the water and the sour taste.)<\/li>\n<li>Let the vegetable oil heat up for two minutes and simultaneously slice in the last bulb of onion.<\/li>\n<li>Add the blended tomatoes and let it fry for 6 \u2013 7 minutes (till there\u2019s no more water and no sour taste).<\/li>\n<li>Pour in the cooked (with the water) and stir<\/li>\n<li>If you feel the spices present aren\u2019t enough, you can add more.<\/li>\n<li>Add pepper and salt to taste.<\/li>\n<li>Add the seasoning cubes.<\/li>\n<li>Leave for around 5 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your stew is ready to be served with white rice, yam, boiled plantain and any other \u2018partner-able\u2019 dish.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If you want your stew extra dry, you may sieve out the water from the tomato after blending by gently pouring into a sieve and allowing the water to drain out.<\/li>\n<li>The same procedure for chicken as above goes for assorted beef, fish, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t use enough oil, you might be able to get rid of the sour taste accompanying the tomato stew.<\/li>\n<li>If you feel you\u2019ve added too much pepper, add more onions to even it out.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re not eating it immediately, wait for three to five minutes for the stew to have a drop in temperature, then serve the stew into containers and put in the freezer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nigeria, when one hears \u2018Fish stew\u2019, \u2018Chicken stew\u2019,etc, the first thing that comes to mind is the fish or &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to Make Nigerian Stew\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/how-to-make-nigerian-stew\/#more-32601\" aria-label=\"More on How to Make Nigerian Stew\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6w1sx-8tP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32604,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601\/revisions\/32604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}