I did this last year to great success, as it is that time of the year again, I have been asked to please post a weekly menu plan for Ramadan. There are more recipes on the blog as compared with last year, so I hope this is as robust and as helpful for you guys all over the world. The menu plan was designed to be less stressful for Sahur, and then you can go to town for Iftar, starting with a simple quick option to stave off hunger after prayers, while you bear down and cook the main dishes. I have also presented options, depending on the size of your family, or if you will be cooking for just yourself, you will find something useful. Ramadan Kareem!!!
Image credit: www.hibamagazine.blogspot.com
To find recipes for the dishes posted below, just type the name of the dish into the search bar of the blog or click on Recipespaedia HERE
Sahur – Day 1
Fruits – whatever is in season, stock up the house with. You can serve as juice or fill yourself up with a smoothie
Moin Moin and Pap or Oats with milk – if you are making a large batch, see my post about peeling beans in a blender or food processor. It would save you a lot of time. Click HERE and HERE.
Yamarita fries – or plain boiled or lightly fried Yam with Efo Riro (vegetable soup)
For your starchy solid option, Semovita/ Wheat flour and Buka stew with Ewedu or Okro.
Iftar – Day 1
Fruits
Fish/Meat Peppersoup wit bread rolls to satisfy the hunger pangs
Egusi soup with a starchy solid of your choice
Goat Curry with plain boiled rice.
Sahur – Day 2
Plantain Mosa – plantain pancakes
Sandwiches – with whatever filling you wish
Groundnut soup with a starchy solid like Eba
Palm oil rice, with grilled meats or chicken
Iftar – Day 2
Akara – to snack on and stave off the hunger pangs while the main dishes are prepared.
Masa with Miyan Taushe
Eba with Ila Asepo
Yam Pottage
Sahur – Day 3
Adalu (beans and corn) with pap
Bread and Egg sauce
Spaghetti and Meat balls in Tomato sauce
Iftar – Day 3
Sweet potato chips with Ata din din and Fried Chicken
Miyan Kuka with Tuwon Shinkafa
Amala with Gbegiri and Ewedu
Jollof rice and Dodo
Sahur – Day 4
Tapioca with milk and grated coconut
Fruits salad or a Potato salad
Fufu served with Ogbono soup
Full English breakfast – bread, scrambled eggs, baked beans, beef sausages and mushrooms
Rice and beans with Mama Adeola stew
Iftar – Day 4
Puff Puff
Pounded Yam and Waterleaf Soup
Ekuru with Eko and Ata din
Couscous with beef and vegetable sauce
Sahur – Day 5
Fruits
Yam and Fresh Fish peppersoup
Semovita with Imoyo and blanched spinach (efo tete or green)
Ewa Aganyin and Bread
Iftar – Day 5
Fisherman’s soup with Oatmeal and chopped lightly boiled Okro
Ofada rice and Ayamase (ofada sauce)
Unripe Plantain Pottage
Sahur – Day 6
Indomie Jollof and fried plantain with boiled eggs
Fried fish and vegetables with Egg sauce and Irish potatoes
Pancakes with beef sausages and sauteed vegetables
A starchy solid and your choice of Nigerian soup
Iftar – Day 6
Peppered meats with Chips
Corn and Plantain Moin Moin
Egusi Ijebu with your choice of Starchy solid
Sahur – Day 7
Suya burger with a fresh vegetable salad
Cereals and milks with chopped fruits
Coconut Jollof rice
Yam and Garden Egg sauce
Iftar – Day 7
Miyan Kubewa with Tuwo Masara
Egbo + smoked fish sauce
Sinasir with Soup
Bitter leaf soup with Eba
I hope this helps you prepare for Ramadan. Another post will go up next week Friday, hopefully. Someone remind me please, just in case I forget.
This is very nice. I can’t imagine eating all that food for sahur or iftar though. For me it’s usually a bottle of water for the former and kunu gyada with moi-moi for the latter. Dinner depends on what I feel like eating.
The meals are to give options though, and not all. I hope you were inspired
Thank you so much for this. Its my first time commenting on your blog. I am/was one of your silent students. But I just had to comment on this one. I really appreciate this. Now I have lots of ideas to work with.
You are welcome Idera. Happy to help
Dooney Rooneyscoco. Have I told you lately how much I love you? You made a schedule last year and I prayed for you and then you went ahead and did it again. May Allah bless you and reward your generousity and ingenuity. As some people have shared, most of our fasting stomachs can’t handle all these goodness but we appreciate the guide. As a health nut, I survive on green smoothies, protein shakes, salads and other light meals but I love the options you have on here especially when you have to feed a family. I will keep harassing you about healthy food options too.
Can’t wait for your cookbook as I am also tired of wiping food stains off my mobile devices.
Thank you again for all that you do for us and I hope to pay it forward someday.
Aaaaaaaw, massive bear hugs for you LBA. Stay tuned for next month, big things are coming. The cookbook Insha Allah, He will make it happen
Thanks dooney I will try some of this ramadan menu inshallah.I just finish cooking Asun.the next time I will try some of this ramadan menu.dooney thanks so much I really appreciate you.
You are welcome Ganiyat. I appreciate the feedback