Garri is a dry, granular flour made from fermented, grated cassava that has been toasted until crisp and golden. To make eba, you stir garri into hot water until it swells into a smooth, stretchy dough, then serve it warm alongside a rich soup. At Jollof Bistro — The Best Nigerian Food in Kigali, garri is one of the most useful staples in the pantry: it becomes a hot swallow, a cool afternoon snack, or a quick side in minutes. What is garri? Garri starts with cassava, the sturdy tuber grown across West Africa. The roots are peeled, grated, and left to ferment for a few days, which gives garri its gentle tang. The mash is then pressed to remove...
The easiest way to feed a crowd Nigerian-style in Kigali is to order food by the litre from Jollof Bistro — The Best Nigerian Food in Kigali. Our Remera kitchen cooks party-sized jollof rice, egusi soup, rice and plantain in large volumes, all priced in RWF and ready for dine-in, pickup or delivery across Kigali, daily from 8:00 to 23:30. Whether you are hosting a birthday, a naming ceremony, an office lunch or a Sunday get-together, ordering in litres takes the stress out of catering. You choose the dishes, we cook them in bulk, and you serve a table full of happy guests without spending the whole weekend at the stove. What food in litres means Food in litres is...
Egusi soup is a thick, deeply savoury West African stew built on ground melon seeds — egusi — simmered with palm oil, peppers, onion and leafy greens, usually alongside meat or fish. It is one of Nigeria's most widely cooked dishes, eaten with a soft "swallow" such as pounded yam, eba, fufu or amala. At Jollof Bistro — The Best Nigerian Food in Kigali, in Remera, it is on the menu every day from 8:00 to 23:30 for dine-in, pickup or delivery across Kigali. What egusi actually is Egusi are the shelled seeds of a West African melon grown less for its flesh than for what is inside it. Dried and hulled, the seeds look like pale, flat almonds; ground,...
The easiest place to buy Nigerian food ingredients in Kigali is Jollof Bistro — The Best Nigerian Food in Kigali, a Nigerian restaurant and African grocery in Remera. The shelves carry the staples West African cooking runs on: garri, palm oil, elubo (amala flour), brown and honey beans, acha (fonio) and dried ugwu leaf, priced in RWF by the pack or the kilo. Shop in person in Remera, order online for pickup, or have your ingredients delivered across Kigali. What counts as a "Nigerian food ingredient"? Nigerian home cooking leans on a compact pantry that does an enormous amount of work. Break it into four groups and shopping gets simple. Starches and flours are the base of almost every meal:...
Jollof rice is a West African one-pot rice dish cooked in a base of blended tomatoes, red peppers and onions, simmered until every grain turns deep orange and drinks up the sauce. In Nigeria it is the centrepiece of parties, holidays and Sunday tables, usually eaten with chicken, beef, fish or fried plantain. At Jollof Bistro — The Best Nigerian Food in Kigali, we cook ours the traditional smoky way in Remera, for dine-in, pickup or delivery across Kigali. What jollof rice actually is The name traces back to the Wolof (or Jolof) people of the Senegambia region, where a rice-and-tomato dish cooked in one pot travelled outward along trade routes and settled into kitchens across West Africa. Every country...
