Meet Hadiza Ango, the amazing Chef Amors. She's a northern Nigerian food blogger, YouTuber, content creator, and chef who started cooking at a very tender age and is now a renowned culinary star!
AFN Tell us about yourself!
Chef Amors My name is Hadiza Ango, known as Chef Amors. A northern Nigeria food blogger, YouTuber, content creator and chef in my late twenties. I started cooking at an early age of 7-8 yrs of age. I will watch my mom cook from start to finish and when she saw how curious I am and passionate about food. She allowed me do a few things in the kitchen with her and before you knew I was the cook of the house because you guessed right I am good with food.
AFN Why do you cook?
Chef Amors I can’t really say why. I think this passion for food and cooking is inbuilt. I was born this way. Along the line the joy I see on my family and friends' faces whenever I cook for them is indescribable. One of my love languages is cooking for people I love. So yes I cook because I love cooking.
AFN What is your favorite memory in the kitchen?
Chef Amors My favorite memory in the kitchen was when I cooked Jollof rice for 16 people. I was still in primary school then; trust me, it was one of the best rice I ever made. My dad asked me to ask if anybody helped me because he couldn’t believe I made that all by myself and because the rice was too good. Till date, everybody wants to eat my food and anytime I remember this particular day, it just makes me happy.
AFN What is your biggest cooking fail?
Chef Amors I tried this fresh strawberry muffin recipe I saw online and it was an epic failure (this is the only one I can remember).
AFN What kitchen equipment do you use more and can’t do without?
Chef Amors The kitchen equipment I use often is my mini chopper /blender. I use it too often.
AFN What are your favorite foods to cook and why?
Chef Amors My favorite food to cook is fried rice because you can’t eat my fried rice and not ask for more or the recipe.
AFN What would you like to share with our audience?
Chef Amors I would like you to know that cooking is not hard, once you prep early and have the right gadgets you will finish in no time. Creating sweet delicious meals is all about FLAVOR BUILDING (knowing the right time to add specific ingredients and build flavors along as you go).
AFN How can your fans reach you on social media?
You can reach me via my email or Instagram (for business/work) or my comment sections. You can also follow me on YouTube for amazing content you'd love.
i have been following Chef Amors on YouTube for over two years now from here in Berlin. her masa recipe is the reason i bought a cast iron pan from an Asian supermarket in Wedding! trying to find real dried kuka leaves in Germany is almost impossible sha, so i always have to beg my auntie in Abuja to send ground powder by post.
Seeing Chef Amors make tuwo shinkafa on her channel always reminds me of making sadza back home in Zimbabwe. The smooth texture is so similar even if the rice base is different. Hard to get proper tuwo rice here in Luton so I usually just use coarse ground rice from the South Asian shops on Dunstable Road. Lovely piece on her.
Ah Hadiza Ango! Her channel is brilliant o. I love how she highlights proper Northern flavors, especially the way she explains the spice ratios for real suya yaji. Finding authentic suya spice down here in Woolwich market is a nightmare, half of the shops sell fake ones that don't even have proper ground kuli kuli in them.
So happy to see Hadiza featured here! She really put Kaduna on the map with her videos. People down south always think northern food is just suya and kilishi, but her recipes for proper dan wake with kuka and fresh yaji showed everyone the real depth of Arewa cooking. She deserves all the recognition sha.
It is very pleasant to read about Chef Hadiza's journey. Northern Nigerian cuisine has so many wonderful rice dishes like tuwo that resemble our ugali here in Tanzania, though her use of groundnut spice blends like yaji is quite unique. Asante for highlighting a Muslim sister doing so well.