Hilda Baci cooks up nearly 20,000-pound serving of jollof rice
Written by Angie Sharma on September 17, 2025
Nigerian celebrity chef Hilda Baci earned a Guinness World Record by cooking up a serving of Nigerian-style jollof rice weighing in at nearly 20,000 pounds.
Baci, who rocketed to international fame when she broke the record for the longest cooking marathon at 93 hours and 11 minutes in May 2023, teamed up with food manufacturer Gino Nigeria to whip up 19,356 pounds and 9 ounces of jollof rice in Lagos.
Baci said it took about nine hours to prepare the dish, which included about 8,818 pounds of washed basmati rice, 362 pounds of fresh goat meat, 485 pounds of Gino Asun and peppered chicken cubes and 1,322 pounds of her own jollof mix.
“I didn’t realize it would be this hard and it has been a challenge. It’s a lot of hard work but really satisfying to achieve the record,” Baci told Guinness World Records. “This achievement also belongs to the people of Nigeria as they all contributed to the achievement.”
Source : UPI News
