The Naija Table

Authentic Nigerian Cooking, Right in Your Home.

Transform your kitchen into a masterclass. Learn heritage techniques for iconic dishes, hands-on, with stone-ground spices and expert guidance.

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Smoky Jollof Rice

Nigerian Fried Rice

Yam Porridge

Nigerian Jollof Rice is a vibrant, one-pot West African dish made with rice, tomatoes, peppers, and spices, celebrated for its smoky flavor and cultural significance.

Master colourful Nigerian-style fried rice, including preparation, seasoning and texture.

Beans cooked with palm oil or vegetable oil, peppers, onions and seasonings and be served with ripe plantain, yam, garri or bread.

The Nigerian Kitchen

Learn the Dishes You Love

Choose a favourite Nigerian dish and learn the preparation, flavour-building and cooking techniques behind it through a personalised hands-on lesson.

Nigerian stew is a rich, spicy, tomato-based stew made with meat, peppers, onions, and seasonings, commonly served with rice, yam, or other staples.

Moi Moi

Oil Beans & Plantain

Nigerian yam porridge, also known as Asaro, is a hearty one-pot dish made with yam chunks simmered in palm oil, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and seasonings, often enriched with crayfish or smoked fish.

Fragrant Nigerian rice cooked in creamy coconut milk, creating a subtly sweet, savoury and aromatic dish.

Nigerian coconut Rice

Ayamase stew

Spicy, light broth with fish, chicken, or goat, often served as a starter or for medicinal purposes.

Ayamase—also called Ofada sauce—is a spicy Nigerian stew known for its green color, smoky aroma, and deep umami from fermented locust beans. It is traditionally paired with Ofada rice and assorted meats.

Egusi Soup

Master the art of this wholesome spinach, pumpkin leaf stew, balancing robust flavors with fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Vegetable Soup

Banga Soup

A rich palm-fruit soup made from ripe palm nuts and traditional spices, commonly prepared with meat, fish or seafood. It is especially associated with southern Nigeria and is often enjoyed with starch or rice

Okra Soup

Egusi soup is a rich West African dish made from ground melon seeds, palm oil, assorted meats or fish, and leafy vegetables such as spinach or bitterleaf, commonly served with fufu, pounded yam, or garri.

A rich, flavourful Nigerian soup made with fresh okra, palm oil, and a choice of meat or fish.

Nigerian garden egg sauce is a flavorful, hearty sauce made from garden eggs (African eggplants), palm oil, peppers, and smoked fish, perfect with yam, plantain, or rice.

Garden Egg Sauce

Pepper soup

Moi Moi/ Moin Moin is a traditional Nigerian meal made from beans, onions, peppers, spices, and other ingredients. It is delicious, easy to make, and inexpensive.

Nigerian Stew

Ogbono soup is a traditional Nigerian soup made from ground ogbono seeds, known for its thick, slimy texture and rich, savory flavor.

Ogbono Soup

Gizdodo

Gizdodo is a popular Nigerian dish combining fried chicken gizzards and ripe plantains in a spicy, flavorful sauce.

Pounded Yam

Amala

Starch

Boiled yam pounded until smooth and stretchy

Served with rich Nigerian soups such as egusi, ogbono, vegetable or afang soup

Eba is a popular Nigerian staple made from garri (cassava flour) mixed with hot water to form a dough-like “swallow” food, typically eaten with soups and stews.

Semolina is a smooth, dough-like Nigerian swallow made from semolina flour, commonly served with rich soups such as Egusi, Efo Riro, and Okra soup.

The Nigerian Kitchen

Swallow

Choose a favourite Nigerian dish and learn the preparation, flavour-building and cooking techniques behind it through a personalised hands-on lesson.

Eba

Semolina

Starch, known locally as "usi" in the Niger Delta, is a smooth, stretchy, and gelatinous staple made from cassava, commonly served with rich Nigerian soups

Yam flour, or in some versions plantain/cassava flour, mixed with hot water

Eaten with soups such as ewedu, gbegiri, efo riro or ogbono

The Naija Table Experience

Learn More Than a Recipe

🇳🇬 Authentic Nigerian Flavours

Explore beloved dishes inspired

by Nigerian home cooking and food traditions.

Cooking Nigerian food is about flavour, technique, confidence and the joy of sharing food. Your lesson is built around you, your kitchen and the dishes you want to master.

🏠 In Your Own Home

Learn where you actually cook, using your own kitchen and equipment

👩🏾‍🍳 Private & Personal

One-to-one guidance at your own pace,

with practical demonstrations.

Simple. Practical. Personal.

How Your Lesson Works

Cook Together

Prepare the dish step by step and build the confidence to recreate it yourself.