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Recipe 05 / Nigeria 🇳🇬

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Tola

Lagos, Nigeria

Available100 ml / Heat 3 of 3

Ata Dindin

Nigerian fried pepper sauce

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Tola / The opening note

Tola grew up in Lagos, where ata dindin was never decoration. It sat beside rice, yam and eggs with enough character to change the whole meal.

A bowl of Nigerian ata dindin with Scotch bonnet, red pepper and onion

Inside Ata Dindin

Fresh natural ingredients

  1. 01Ata rodo (Scotch bonnet)
  2. 02Tatashe (red bell pepper)
  3. 03Onion
  4. 04Tomato
  5. 05Groundnut or palm oil
  6. 06Sea salt

The story behind the sauce

Fried red. Lagos loud.

The sauce begins with ata rodo and tatashe, two peppers that bring distinct heat, fruit and colour.

They are blended with onion and fried patiently in oil until the raw edge disappears and the colour deepens. The result is direct, savoury and unmistakably Nigerian.

“You should taste the pepper, then reach for the next bite.”— Tola