12 Must Have Foodstuffs For Every Lagos Home

If you have ever opened your kitchen cabinet and wonder, “What exactly can I cook with what I have here?”, keep reading, this is for you. 

You don’t actually need a kitchen full of varieties of food items before you can make good meals. A few reliable foodstuffs can help you put together breakfast, lunch or dinner without too much stress or even having to enter markets and get stuck in Lagos traffic. 

Here are 12 food items and ingredients that shouldn’t go missing in your kitchen, and what you can use them for.

1. Rice

Rice is one of those foods that can never go wrong. It can be cooked quickly into either jollof rice, fried rice, coconut rice, white rice and stew.

2. Beans

Beans are filling, affordable and can be cooked in different ways. You can make beans porridge, plain beans or pair it with rice, yam or plantain. This can go for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

3. Garri

Garri doesn’t need much announcement. Soaked garri can save you when you need something quick, while it can also be turned into eba and be eaten with any soup of choice.

4. Yam

Yam gives you plenty of options. You can boil it, fry it, pound it or turn it into asaro. It can also be paired with beans to get a yummy meal.

5. Plantain

Plantain, whether ripe or unripe, can be fried, boiled, roasted or cooked as porridge. It can be cooked with beans or served 

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6. Tomatoes

Tomatoes are one of the foundations of Nigerian cooking. They go into stews, jollof rice, sauces and many other meals.

7. Pepper

Pepper brings the heat!. If you like your food mildly spicy or “let it pepper them” spicy, rodo can do the job. Pepper Stew is another way to use pepper to make stew, which can be paired with rice, yam, beans, plantain or potatoes. 

8. Onions

Onions may be small, but they can completely change the flavour of a meal. Fried, blended or chopped, they are typically used for almost all meals.

9. Cooking Oil

This could be palm oil or vegetable oil. Palm oil gives many traditional Nigerian meals their signature colour and flavour.

Vegetable oil is used for frying and  to make stew. Cooking oil is one of the food ingredients most homes reach for regularly.

10. Crayfish

Crayfish improves the taste of foods. It gives meals that  rich taste.

11. Protein

This could be your frozens. Fish, Meat, chicken, turkey, dried fish, snails, eggs or other protein of choice. They add a unique flavour to dishes. 

12. Spices & Condiments

A lot of cooking starts with “add your seasoning.”  Spices and condiments are used to boost the flavour of meals. Iru, ginger, garlic, banga spices, bay leaves…the list goes on.

CONCLUSION

A kitchen stocked with basic food ingredients makes cooking easier.

Having your basic food items available means you can wake up and decide, “Today, we’re eating beans and plantain,” instead of wondering which market to enter first.

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We help you save money up to 40% on your food budget, save time and stress because we are buying for many people at the same time. We also deliver directly to their Lagos location.

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