Nigerian Salad Recipe I Chef Lola's Kitchen (2024)

The classic Nigerian Salad recipe is a very lively salad. It’s colorful, nutrient-dense, very filling and it’s very tasty. I need to add that it’s versatile enough to serve in smaller portions as an appetizer, or as one hearty bowlful main dish andit’s very easy to make. It literally an anything-goes type of food.

The classic Nigerian Salad

Bear it in mind that the vegetables need not be leafy to merit a role in the salad bowl. This delightful Salad consists of vegetables both raw and cooked, pasta, Eggs and more. With all these ingredients, it’s sure that this Salad makes a hearty meal in itself but it can also be paired with the Jollof rice, Fried rice, Fried Chickenand even more.

The centralingredients are Lettuce and Cabbage but it’s surrounded byTomato, pasta, Eggs, Cucumber, Baked Beans and sweet corn. All these ingredients make this salad economical enough to entertain a crowd and like with most salads, it’s also quite flexible. For instance, Potato can be used as a substitute for the pasta.

There are a couple of things that make this Salad unique and in my own opinion I think the dressing is one of the top things but I realize that this dressing is not sold everywhere. So I did some research and I came across a recipe very close to the original Heinz dressing. Recipe below:

My makeshift Heinz dressing

2 Tbsp of white vinegar

6 Tbsp of Mayonnaise

2 Tbsp of Icing sugar

2 Tsp of Mustard (optional)

Below is the detailed video on how to make this salad:

This salad will serve 5 people as a main meal and up to 8 or 10 as a side meal.

Notes:

• Dressing tends to make lettuce limp, it is, therefore, advisable to mix the salad at the last possible moment before serving in order to keep the leaves crisp.
• Try to get a balance when adding the dressing; too much dressing will overwhelm the salad likewise, too little dressing will make the salad tasteless
• Make sure all your ingredients are free from excess water, as the excess water will prevent the dressing from adhering to your salad.
• It is best to use ripe but hard Tomatoes. Soft juicy tomatoes will get the salad wet.
• It’s best to serve this salad cold!

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