Everything You Need to Know About Hilda Baci’s Jollof Rice World Record

Nigeria’s renowned cook and cooking influencer, Hilda Baci, has officially acceptable different Guinness World Record for cooking the largest serving of Nigerian jollof atom ever. To acceptable this record, she teamed up with Gino Nigeria to navigator 8,780 kilograms of jollof rice.

The record-breaking lawsuit took spot connected 12 September 2025 during the Gino World Jollof Festival astatine Eko Hotels & Suites successful Lagos. The effort drew immense crowds, featured performances and personage appearances. Apart from jollof atom being a beloved repast to Nigerians, it’s a Nigerian tone to enactment 1 of their ain erstwhile doing large things.

Guinness World Records confirmed the feat, noting that each criteria were met: constituent proportions, required value measurements, and rules for display, cooking time, and nutrient distribution.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir the satellite record:

The Attempt

• Date of Attempt: 12 September 2025
• Venue: Eko Hotels & Suites, Lagos.
• Cooking Duration: Approximately 9 hours of continuous cooking, with astir 1,200 kg of state utilized to support the occurrence burning for the monolithic pot.

Rules for the Attempt

• At slightest 80% of the full value had to beryllium washed basmati rice.
• The nutrient prepared indispensable beryllium shared with people, due to the fact that nary of it indispensable beryllium wasted.
• The jollof atom must, successful fact, beryllium Nigerian jollof rice.

Ingredients Used (As outlined by Hilda Baci) 

• 4,000 kg of washed basmati rice
• 612 kg of oil
• 800 kg of Gino Asun peppered chickenhearted + enactment jollof
• 600 kg of my Jollof capsicum mix
• 220 kg of Gino Asun & peppered chickenhearted cubes
• 20 g of Gino curry + 7 g of Gino thyme
• 300 kg of onion, ail & ginger blend
• 164 kg of caller goat meat
• 1,200 kg of gas

The Confirmation

The grounds was officially confirmed by Guinness World Records connected the 15th of September 2025, 3 days aft the attempt. Officials verified that each criteria were met, from the cooking proportions to the nutrient distribution.