Cooking Nigerian meals without seasoning cubes
If you are trying to go from seasoning your meals with seasoning cubes (like maggi and knorr ) to using natural spices, depending on the kind of soup or stew you want to cook, here are some natural spices to you can blend together ( i will share a few spice blends at the end of this post ) .
- Garlic
- Stock ( from beef, bones, fish, vegetables)
- Curry leaves
- Ginger
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Cumin
- Oregano
- Cardamon
- Curry powder
- Onions
- Ogiri
- Locust beans (iru, dadawa)
- Crayfish
- Stockfish
- Dry fish
- Nutmeg
- Black pepper
- White pepper
- Paparika
- Chilli flakes
- Cloves
- Cayenne
- Celery
- Parsley
- Bayleaves
- Turmeric
- Coriander
- Fennel seeds
A few nigerian spices
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You will need to experiment by trying out different mix of spices to obtain your desired taste; Here are a few spice blends you can try without seasoning cubes
- For beans – Garlic and ginger powder ( ratio 1:2)
- Meat / chicken seasoning – ginger powder , sea salt , fennel , cloves ,star anise , green cardamon ( the fennel, cloves, star anise and green cardamon should be in very minute quantities as it can be over powering)
- Local Nigerian soups – fish powder , black pepper, stockfish , iru , crayfish , onion powder
To get the ready made spice mix for making delicious Nigerian stew without seasoning cubes , kindly visit our sister store – nigerianspiceshop.com (click the link )
Nigerian spice shop is a sister store to Themarketfoodshop
This readymade spice mix contains 8 natural ingredients that give very tasty Nigerian stews and sauces without the use of maggi and knorr cubes .
