QUICK 10 MINUTES JOLLOF MACARONI RECIPE

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My quick 10 minutes Jollof macaroni recipe. I cooked early in the morning to pack for kids’ lunch boxes.

Jollof macaroni is cooked the same way we cook jollof rice but macaroni cooks much faster so it’s ok to make it in the morning for both adult and kids’ lunch boxes.

Here is me cooking my quick Jollof macaroni. You can watch on my Youtube Chanel to enable you to subscribe or watch the cooking video below.

 

The stock wasn’t enough o, water completed the job. If your stock can’t cover up the macaroni in the pot, just add hot water and continue cooking.

You are free to add or leave out some ingredients according to how your taste buds dictate. 

INGREDIENTS


1 medium-sized red onion1 large green pepper

2 seasoning cubes
3 fresh tomatoes
2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
One cup Vegetable oil or less
1 pack macaroni (500g)
Homemade Chicken Stock.
1 teaspoon Jollof spice
1 bay leaf Optional
Salt to taste

Water.

Get the ingredients ready… Wash and chop the onion, green pepper, tomatoes, and set aside. If you are packing with eggs for the kids, let the eggs be ready and cooling in cold water somewhere so you don’t sweat it out struggling with hot eggs while the school bell is ringing and the bus is blaring their sweet horn by your window. If you are cooking this macaroni for adults, then you’ll need to add more peppers while stir-frying the vegetables.
Pieces of fried meat on jollof macaroni
QUICK 10 MINUTES JOLLOF MACARONI RECIPE FOR SCHOOL LUNCH BOX

This Jollof macaroni recipe was posted about a year ago while packing the kids’ school lunchboxes in the morning. Now during this covid-19 pandemic, they remembered their favourite macaroni and asked for it again. I had to film myself cooking. So, the video is recent and in the video, I didn’t use any bay leaf. You may choose to add a bay leaf or leave it out.

With or without the bay leaf in this quick jollof macaroni, it tastes amazing.

PROCEDURE FOR 10 MINUTES QUICK JOLLOF MACARONI

  1. Stir fry the onion, green pepper, and dried thyme with seasoning till fragrant.
  2. Add the tomatoes and stir
  3. then  tomato ketchup and stir
  4. Add the stock and Jollof spice, check for salt and add if needed. Leave to boil before adding pasta.
  5. Add the macaroni and increase the level of stock or water to cover.  Let the macaroni be submerged in water because you don’t want to add water or stock while cooking.
  6. Add bay leaf and cover to cook.
  7. Check after 5 minutes and adjust salt or stock if needed. Cover again to cook for another 5 minutes and it’s ready. Don’t overcook pasta please.
  8. Pack hot in lunch boxes and check later to see how the kids ate so so well.
Happy lunch boxing. 
This is not our fist post on lunch box ideas, you can check out The post with Nigerian school lunch box ideas and a free 4 week meal timetable for parents to try. When my big girls were younger, packing a lunch box was not as easy as their school didn’t allow oily foods.
The days they took snacks to school were so many, chai! I pity those girls. You have to be a genius to come up with a plan for a term. They only ate oily foods at home.
This yummy quick 10 minutes Jollof macaroni recipe would have been a no, no. You cook and keep at home.
They eat after school.
If you couldn’t come up with anything fast, you end up stopping at fast food or restaurant to order meat pies, roast chicken, shawarma, pizza Etc.
The kids really loved it but I was worried even though it’s a good school, the number of obese kids then made me blame the foods parents gave these kids to take to school.
Even ordinary fried rice or Jollof sef, we were not allowed to pack but things have changed. The feeding is healthier now from what we hear anyways.  They now allow kids to eat even semo and okra soup during the break.

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