Recipe of the Day, Week No: 72: (Jollof Spaghetti Recipe)

It's another time of the day to bring out my cooking skills through Steemit Iron Chef Community contest. Here's the recipe of the day for 7th of August 2025 and it is a delicious recipe of pasta ( spaghetti). Spaghetti can be prepared in different ways or combined and served with different meals like; stew, sauce, beans or rice. But in this case, I made it as jollof.

How did I achieve that?! Scroll to learn about the ingredients used, preparation process and how much you can spend to prepare this recipe at home within 40 minutes and of course with just #4,450 (22.3 steem)

Ingredients

Ingredients Used

• Pasta (spaghetti)
• Tomato paste
• Onions
• Vegetable oil
• Curry
• Thyme
• Fresh pepper
• Salt
• Maggi
• Egg

Preparation Procedures

Break the spaghetti into three ( optional), I prefer to break mine when making jollof so it can absorb the ingredients well.

Broken spaghetti

Parboil pasta (spaghetti ) with salt and oil; spaghetti should be added to boiled water.

Parboiled

Drain the water out of the spaghetti when soft and rinse with cold water, set pot to dry then heat up oil and onions.

Added onions to hot oil

While still frying, add tomato paste.

Adding tomato

Add curry and thyme then keep frying.

Adding thyme

Add fresh pepper and a little water, allow it to boil for 30 seconds then add a little salt and maggi.

Adding pepper

Cover the pot to boil tomato sauce properly before pouring the plain parboiled pasta (spaghetti) into it.

Added spaghetti to the tomato sauce

Stir and add a little water ( this depends on how soft the spaghetti is). Cover to cook till the water dries up.

Adding water

At this point, the pasta was ready so I proceeded to make omelette to accompany the meal.

Frying egg

The egg was mixed properly with onions, fresh pepper, maggi and salt then fry.

Here's the outcome;

Items	Price in Naira	Price in Steem
Spaghetti	#1,500	7.5 steem
Tomato paste	#750	3.8 steem
Onions	#300	1.5 steem
Vegetable oil	#500	2.5 steem
Curry &Thyme	#200	1 steem
Fresh pepper	#500	2.5 steem
Maggi	#200	1 steem
Egg	#500	2.5 steem

I will invite @dequeen @chant and @anasuleidy to join the recipe of the day contest.