Guinness World Records on Monday gave official recognition to Nigerian chef Hilda Baci by recognizing his jollo rice, invented in Lagos last Friday, as the largest in the world.
Baci praised the feat in X, where Guinness also confirmed “the largest portion of Nigerian style jollo rice: 8,780 kg” or 19,356 pounds and nine ounces.
“We have done it again,” Baci said in reference to an earlier record, established in 2023, when he established a brand for marathon kitchen with a period of 93 hours, 11 minutes, which was later surpassed by Irish chef Alan Fisher.
The award was an early birthday gift for Baci, which turns 30 this weekend, since its one -hour effort, cooked in a six -meter (20 feet) pot, came true after having poured around five tons of Basmati rice, 600 kilos of onion and 750 kilos of cooking, marinated in tomato sauce, like about 8,000 people encouraged.
The popular Western Africa dish has a slow rice in a tomato sauce, accompanied by meat or fish, although there are several versions throughout the continent.
Jollof Rice has its roots in the old Wolof Empire, which extended from what is now Senegal to Mauritania and Gambia.
In the fourteenth century, the region was recognized for its rice cultivation, and people prepared a dish made with rice, fish, seafood and vegetables, known as thieves.
With the migration of Wolof people in West Africa, the culinary tradition spread.
Today there is a rivalry of Jollo, particularly between Nigeria and Ghana, which both claim that they have the best recipe, although in 2021 it was a Senegalese variant that won a place in the intangible list of cultural heritage of UNESCO.
