How To Combine Spices For Different Meats and Meals

Different bottles of spices for cooking
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How To Combine Spices For Different Meats and Meals.   Hello, Season’s greetings to you and all Nigerian women blog family.


Nigerian women blog has been a blessing to my family and I can’t forget the day I stumbled on the blog while searching Google, looking for how to make akara balls at home.

Thank you all for the recipes you share with cooking learners like me. Hubby enjoys my meals a lot now without even knowing WC is my little secret.

I still have a little challenge though. Combining spices is my biggest challenge in the kitchen. When I boil meat, fish or chicken, what I use is the same spices and I don’t like it. Please ladies, can you teach us how to combine different spices for different foods we cook. Like what spices are best for chicken and what is best for beef or fish etc.
Thank you  and may God direct you too to your place of help.

Please watch this video of me combining garlic,  ginger and other spices to boil meats foe stew.

 

How to combine spices seasoning types and herbs for cooking.

For me dear poster. The seasoning cubes and/or spices and herbs used in cooking Nigerian soups are different from the ones used in cooking stews.

For boiling meats too, the spices for soup meats are different form stew meat spices.

Thew spices for steaming or marinating chicken are different from beef. When I season goat meat for cooking, the spices and herbs used are not the same as beef.

 

Good spices and seasoning for chicken in order of importance to me

Chicken for tomato stews:

  1. Garlic
  2. Onion
  3. Ginger
  4. Salt
  5. little curry
  6. thyme

 

LOCAL CHICKEN FOR SOUP

When I use native chicken to cook soups, I use the following spices:

  • Onion
  • Salt
  • Seasoning cube

 

Chicken for pizza

When I make chicken pizza, my chicken is either grilled or stir-fried before using it.

These ingredients are used:

  1. Onion
  2. Garlic
  3. Thyme
  4. Oregano
  5. Black pepper

 

Goat meat spices and seasoning for stew

  1. Onion
  2. Salt
  3. Oregano
  4. Garlic
  5. Ginger
  6. Seasoning cube

 

Goat meat spices for cooking Nigerian soups:

  • Seasoning cube
  • Salt
  • little Onion

 

How to season and spice beef for stews

I use the following:

  1. Onion
  2. Salt
  3. Curry
  4. thyme
  5. Seasoning cube

Scroll down to read comments from others who combine spices differently.

 

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13 thoughts on “How To Combine Spices For Different Meats and Meals”

  1. My two cent….CHICKEN: curry, thyme, enough onions, ginger, garlic,knor cube, little nutmeg, little corianda powder, little bayleaf(optional) peper(fresh preferably), salt, Benny or mivina, control onions. BEEF: I only change my seasoning I.e maggi star or royco, onga classic instead of benny or mivina. Pls note that the qty of spices is determinant on ur meat or stock your want to make. I add crayfish and cameroon peper if I am making soup and leave out thyme, corianda and nutmeg.

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  2. Oh pls bayleaf aint curry leaf, you can check the jamaican food post and see 3 dry leaf in her pot. That's bay leaf. I love curry leaf in stew(not always, depends on my mood) Thanks

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  3. Jus a little tip on hw 2 spice ur meat.spice it up with curry,benny chicken,salt,knorr,pepper onion ginger nd garlic.stir it up with ur spatula nd dump it in d freezer 4 like 20mins jus so d meat wil b very spicy as it's getting cold.

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