Salads are among the world’s most popular appetizers, entrées, or side dishes, depending on how you serve them. Salad ingredients can include raw and cooked vegetables, fruits, proteins, cheese, bread, and, of course, salad dressing.
As always, Nigeria has its own version of the beloved dish. It’s known as the Nigerian salad, and the Nigerian vegetable salad recipes differ from one region to another and even from one family to another. Find out how to make Nigerian salad the classic way right now!
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1. Nigerian salad ingredients
The first step in learning how to prepare salad in Nigeria is checking the salad ingredients list and making sure you have all of them ready. Here are the ingredients for salad making you’ll need:
- 1 medium cabbage
- 1 medium lettuce
- Carrots – 5
- Potatoes – 3
- Tomatoes – 4
- Cucumbers – 2
- Green peas – 100g
- Sweet corn – 1 tin
- Eggs – 4
- Baked beans in tomato sauce – 1 tin
- Salad cream or mayonnaise for dressing
2. How to make vegetable salad in Nigeria
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to prepare vegetable salad with mayonnaise. Master the salad making process with this tutorial!
- First start with the ingredients that need to be pre-cooked. Boil the potatoes and eggs in one pot until the eggs are hard-boiled (it should take 8-10 minutes) and the potatoes are soft. Peel the potatoes and chop them into small cubes. Remove the shells from the eggs and slice them thinly.
- In a separate pot cook the green peas for 2 minutes in boiling water and drain them. Set the peas aside.
- Shred the cabbage, wash it to remove the possible dirt and pesticides, and strain it to get rid of excess liquid. Do the same with lettuce.
- Clean the carrots and grind them on a fine grater.
- Remove the skin off the cucumbers and cut them into fine cubes. If your cucumbers have large seeds, you can remove them to make the salad taste even better.
- Cut the tomatoes into cubes as well. If your tomatoes have too much liquid inside, remove the seeds and the liquid to avoid the salad being too moist.
- Open up the can of corn, strain it and leave aside. Open up the can of baked beans and pour them with the sauce into a bowl.
- Now that all of your vegetable salad ingredients are ready, it’s time to assemble the Nigerian salad. Take a large glass salad bowl and put the vegetable ingredients in layers one by one. You can choose any sequence you like. The final two layers should be the baked beans and then the sliced eggs.
- Chill the salad in the fridge until you need to serve it. Serve Nigerian salad with salad cream or mayonnaise. Nigerian salad with dressing can be stored for up to 24 hours in the fridge.
That’s it – now you how to prepare vegetable salad at home. This is the traditional way of how to prepare Nigerian salad, but the vegetable salad ingredients list can be altered if you don’t like some of the ingredients or want to add your own twist. For example, some people prefer their Nigerian salad without baked beans, so you can serve them on the side.
3. How to make Nigerian salad stew
Want to find out how to make African salad the new way? Try the Nigerian vegetable sauce that is also known as the salad stew! This stew is often served over rice and other garnishes and is mostly made with an addition of protein – for example, chicken. Nigerian cooks also love to thicken their salad stew by adding paste made from blended potatoes.
Nigerian Vegetable Sauce aka Salad Stew | All Nigerian Recipes
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4. How to make fruit salad in Nigeria
Anyone who wants to learn how to prepare salad at home should know that Nigerian salads don’t always have to be savoury – sweet fruit salads are also a big hit among Nigerian families. The guide on how to make salad from fruits couldn’t be easier. Use a large bowl to combine chopped pineapple, banana, apple, and papaya. Use orange juice mixed with sugar and cinnamon as a dressing and serve.
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