NIGERIAN SUNDAY LUNCH IDEAS

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Nigerian sunday lunch ideas.

Whoever started this Sunday rice thing should please tell us their reason.  It stuck and glued and just stayed permanently. Just the way we love to enjoy akara and akamu/custard on Saturday mornings (Nigerian weekend breakfast) Nigerians love their
Sunday rice.

Cooking soup or any other food on Sunday brings lots of question from kids like ‘ah ahn mummy, is today not Sunday? Mummy are we eating eba on Sunday? Mummy today doesn’t feel like Sunday.

WHY NIGERIAN KIDS LOOK FORWARD TO SUNDAY LUNCH

The only time the whole family eats together before work and school resume on Monday. There are Sundays I don’t feel like eating rice but have to cook rice for the family and warm my soup for some fufu.

Nigerian Sunday Lunch doesn’t take time to cook. We cook rice because sometimes church services too, they  take a little long and by the time you get home, it’s already Lunch time. What else will cook fast if not rice? 

 
Nigerian Sunday rice used to be like Christmas when the Economy was still smiling. Kids looked forward to Sunday lunch while adults wished they rested after church instead of entering the kitchen for heavy pots of rice.
Sunday rice can be Rice and tomato stew, Rice and gravy, rice and sauce, jollof rice, coconut rice, fried rice or any rice recipe but just let it be rice especially if you have kids at home.
Sunday lunch is what families and kids look forward to in Nigeria. It’s when the whole family gets to sit and eat together at the same time without using food warmers to preserve food for anyone because the rushed to work.
These Sunday lunch ideas are the best. Any Nigerian Sunday lunch that doesn’t include rice meals is not a Nigerian Sunday lunch or the family doesn’t have kids.

COOKING SUNDAY LUNCH IN NIGERIA IS INTENSE FOR MOTHERS

Mothers in Nigeria my not really look forward to this time because the cooking is intense and starts immediately after church services with no time to rest.
In some families with impatient daddies, cooking has to be rushed because to day daddy is home and doesn’t want his lunch delayed.  Nigerian Sunday Lunch for me, anything goes but the kids won’t take that. Some rice dish or spaghetti but not fufu swallows o.
 
This fried rice served with plantain and fried goat meat is delicious. Goat meat coconut rice.If you are used to cooking fried rice with chicken, try using goat meat stock next time and see how you’ll search in vain for left overs. Goat meat goes really well with fried rice. Our Fried coconutty coconut rice is a must try next Sunday.
Nigerian sunday lunch is served with some chill drinks when NEPA behaves… Kunu, zobo, soft drinks, fruit juices and water. Coleslaw is served sometimes with rice and stew or with jollof rice. I am a fish loving person, whether on Sunday or not but kids prefer meats or you have to fry the fish, just to get them to eat it. 
One Sunday lunch my Nigerian children love to eat is this coconut rice as e dey hot!
 

TIP: When boiling goat meat, sprinkle a little oregano or drop a little lemon grass in there and let it cook through. By the time it starts boiling, the aroma would have reached the fifth compound neighbours.

Tomato fish stew too is served with boiled rice on Sundays. To serve Sunday lunch early in Nigeria, the stew is cooked ahead of time. Cook the stew early in the morning before church or Saturday evening and keep in the refrigerator. See Fresh catfish tomato stew. Also learn how to cook fresh catfish stew.

Happy Sunday. 
BELOW is a list of food ideas for Nigerian Sunday Lunch. You can click on the links to open and see the recipes for these lunches. Fish, chicken, kpomo, beef and other forms of proteins are served with the heavy meals.

SUNDAY LUNCH IDEAS NIGERIA

  1. Boiled rice with Nigerian tomato stew
  2. Rice with carrot tomato stew
  3. With garden egg stew
  4. Boiled rice with shredded chicken sauce
  5. Fried spaghetti
  6. Some Boiled rice with shredded beef gravy
  7. Delicious Boiled rice with egusi stew
  8. Soft Boiled rice with green leaf vegetable stew
  9. Nigerian fried rice
  10. Chicken gizzard fried rice 
  11. Coconutty fried rice
  12. Assorted meats gravy with rice
  13. Lazy man fried rice
  14. Nigerian party Jollof rice with that secret ingredient
  15. Tasty Jollof spaghetti
  16. Tin tomato jollof rice
  17. Jollof macaroni
  18. Naija Boiled rice served with Nigerian pepper soup
  19. Local Palm oil rice
  20. Jollof Rice and beans
  21. Coconut jollof rice
  22. Green vegetable jollof rice

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