Nigerian chef Hilda Baci cooks world’s largest jollof rice at Lagos festival: Video
Nigerian chef and former Guinness World Record holder for marathon cooking, Hilda Bassey, has made another ambitious culinary bid, this time for the world’s largest serving of jollof rice.
On Friday, September 12, at the World Jollof Rice Festival in Lagos, Bassey, popularly known as Hilda Baci, and her team prepared a massive 23,000-litre pot of the iconic West African dish, drawing hundreds of spectators who watched the hours-long cooking effort unfold late into the night.
The 28-year-old chef, who made global headlines in 2023 for her Guinness World Record cook-a-thon, said she meticulously planned this new challenge to stay true to the authentic taste of Nigerian jollof rice.
The record-breaking attempt required staggering quantities of ingredients: 4,000 kilograms of basmati rice, 500 cartons of tomato paste, and 600 kilograms of onions.
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