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Nigeria is Nigerian cuisine is rich in protein, carbohydrate and fat. Mainly prepared from about 80% natural ingredients, vegetables, and aromatic spices and herbs all around.
Nigeria is home to some of the tastiest savory flavors in the world, it has moved from 100% natural ingredients to about %80 due to industrialization and food processing industries.
It has one of the tastiest street foods and soups in Africa and the world.
Whether you are looking to shift from your normal breakfast, lunch or dinner routine, this time, try learning some of these Nigerian dishes from the controversial Jellof rice, Egusi the queen of Nigerian soups and suya, master street food to Smoked garri which is a celebrity and yam.
Knowing this dishes and trying them out will help you get the undiluted nutrients that will help your body and give you the maximum satisfaction.
JELLOF RICE, this is a very controversial delicacy made with rice, tomatoes, onions, scotch bonnets, African spices, chili peppers and oil.
This food has made rounds around the world. It's has two main types namely; NIGERIAN JELLOF and GHANA JELLOF.
The friendly rivalry has always been between these two types. Over 30 decades now and there's no sign of the struggle ending, because both ends keeps surprising each other.
There are endless variations of Jellof recipe, but the five ingredients listed above are usual constants.
The list of Nigerian foods can't be complete without mentioning JELLOF.
It is a party food, it's a picnic food and lot more. No Nigerian party is celebrated without Jellof rice. It costs $10 to prepare a rich tasty Jellof rice for 5 people.
Jellof is nutritious, very rich in carbohydrate, protein, fat and other vitamins. It is good for pregnant, infant and adult people consumption. Best eaten with, a cold drink or water and chicken or beef. Fish also is good even though most people like it fried than cooked.
WHAT IS IT?. PEPPER SOUP is a spicy, hot and light soup, traditionally prepared with goat meat, fish, cow meat or game. It is not pepper soup without cooking it with those traditionally spice and herbs which gives it that spiciness and memorable taste that only leaves one coming back for another plate.
Pepper soup cost around $10 to prepare for five people.
The spice are: Ginger, garlic, utabazi, udah, scent leaf, ataiko, gbagilo, and local red, green and yellow Pepper.
Pepper soup is a West African version of chicken soup.
This soup is eaten with white cooked rice, agidi, or yam, it can be eaten without anything because it's satisfying, restorative and undeniably delicious. Sipping the soup on a cold day with assorted meat, fish or game that are cooked-soft is something to tryout.
Pepper soup is very nutritious and a healthy meal for non vegans; protein, fat and health benefiting supplements are intact in a bowl of Pepper soup due to its contents which are mostly herbs that are used for everyday medical treatments.
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WHAT IS EGUSI SOUP.? The most popular Nigerian soup, usually made with crayfish, fish, kpomo, meat and thickened with ground melon seeds (egusi).
This soup gets its name from protein-rich egusi that lends the dish its velvety, creamy texture and rich flavor. Egusi is eaten with fufu (like pounded yam), and comprises infinite layers of savory flavor that will greet your insides like a warm hug. It costs around $5 to prepare Egusi soup for 5 persons.
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WHAT IS AKARA? Fried bean cakes.
This a popular breakfast food, snack or picnic food, made with eyed ground beans.
It is usually poured into a mortar and pestered with a pestle until it's fluffy. Salt, Pepper and onions are the main ingredients that gives it a finchy taste. It undergoes a deep-frying in vegetable oil
WHAT IS PAP? This is a very carbohydrate rich food, prepared by socking corn(either white or yellow) in a bowl of water and left ferment before grinding. It's sieved after grinding with a special separation technic then the residual is the pap which will be prepared with hot water.
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It is wildly eaten across Africa in many variables.
Akara AND Pap reciprocates each other. It's a vegan food, that is highly rich in carbohydrate, protein and fat.
WHAT IS IT DODO?. Deep-fried ripe plantain slices. This is a popular snack and supplement for other foods.
Dodo is ripe plantain slices fried in deep oil. It is cut in slices and salted before frying. Just like you make banana bread with ripe plantain, Nigerians make dodo with the same ripe plantain and it's so delicious. Here's a guide on how to fry your ripe plantain in variations.
Dodo is rich and famous just like Bill Gate. Funny enough you can eat it with cooked plantain, beans, Jellof, pap etc.
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WHAT IS SMOKED GARRI?. This is a wonder meal, the most popular food amongst Nigerians which both rich and poor can afford. It's never included in any meal plan but it's always eaten more than any food.
Smoked garri can be prepared from, fried garri flakes as it's called. It's normally taken with sugar, salt and groundnut (peanut)or coconut. You can spice it up by adding milk, chocolate and ice cubes.
This is a life-saving meal, very popular in Nigerian boarding (domertry) school, since it can be prepared as quick as possible. 7 in 10 Nigerians take this meal daily.
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WHAT IS PUFF PUFF?. This is a deep-fried dough, served plain or with sofa drinks, juice or wine.
Puff puff is prepared of just four ingredients (flour, yeast, sugar, oil), these Nigerian doughnuts can easily be customized to your personal taste using cinnamon or vanilla.
It's eaten mainly as snacks, a good picnic food and party mini-refreshments. It is one of the most popular street foods in Nigeria and West Africa.
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WHAT IS TOMATO STEW? A tomato-based beef stew is prepared with Tomato, onions, crayfish, beef, oil.
It requires more than the listed ingredients. This stew is prepared by frying the tomato and onions in hot oil, close attention is always given to the pot to make the tomato and other ingredients fried doesn't get burnt. The meat is usually cooked separately until it's tender, then it's added to the Stew.
The recipe for tomato Stew is straight forward and perfect.
It can be served with Rice, yam, beans, boli, dodo agidi etc.
This stew has all the nutrients to get a balanced diet when eaten with carbohydrate rich foods like rice, yam, agidi etc.
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WHAT IS SUYA? This a grilled beef skewers seasoned with spicy peanut mix, cubes and other special spices.
This is the most popular Nigerian street food, it's always sold by Muslims who makes sure it's tasteful and up to standard.
Suya gets its iconic taste from suya spice which is a mixture of many spices. It's hot, because of the chili and it's super spicy.
This popular street food is alwayed packaged in an old newspaper piece, this gives it another interesting taste which most popular don't know. It's eaten with cold drink, or eaten with other foods such as rice.
Suya can be made with beef, and game, though people try to prepare chicken suya, but it's not as tasteful as suya prepared from beef or game.
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WHAT IS BOLI? Roasted plantain.
Boli is a roasted unripe plantain. Literally you just plantain and salt to prepare this popular Nigerian dish.
It's a street food and a snack prepared locally with just salt, it's normally eaten with a sauce that is prepared with natural to spice and red oil.
Boli can also be enjoyed with tomato Stew, grilled fish or plain Palm Oil.
It's very rich in iron, carbohydrate and protein. A plate of boli costs less than a dollar in the local eateries, or the street stores.
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WHAT IS OKRA SOUP? It's a popular Nigerian soup made with okra, spinach or ugu (pumpkin Leaf) ground crayfish and a soup thickener agbono which is optional.
It's a jelly-like soup, prepared by cutting the okra into tiny pieces and frying in Palm Oil. Preparing okro soup coats between $8 to $10 to prepare for 5 people.
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WHAT IS MOI MOI? This is a steamed ground beans (pea) blended with tomato, Pepper, onions, ginger, garlic and other spices. It's often prepared with hard-boiled eggs, brisket born or fat from meat.
It takes up to an hour and 30 minutes to get this dish done after the washing off of the beans seed coat (testa) and black eye.
It's purely a vegan dish when prepared without meat, very rich in protein and one food you would eat twice. Preparing moi moi costs between $6 to $9 to prepare this food for five people and usually eaten along with smoked garri, or rice.
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WHAT IS GARRI? This a ground Fermented cassava (garri) food.
It's Also known as Eba, fufu or basically garri. It has the same dough-like structure of pounded yams, or semovita. It is rich in carbohydrate.
Garri, fufu or eba is eaten with soups such as Egusi, Bitter leaf soup or any other type of Nigerian soup.
WHAT IS IT? Nigerian noodles are prepared by cooking in boiled water, with eggs, tomatoes, onions, and pepper.
This dish is very popular mainly amongst the growing population.
It has a household name INDOMIE, which is one of the premier noodles companies in Nigeria.
It's an instant noodles everyone loves and it's prepared in many ways depending on what you used in preparing it.
Certainly all Nigerian kids love this food and it's popular just as smoked garri.
WHAT IS UGBA?. Ugba is an Igbo name for the fermented African Oil bean seeds and it’s tree. (Pentaclethra macrophylla, Benth). It is a traditional food prepared with local condiments and spices.
It’s very rich in protein and iron, sold in the streets and can be prepared in many ways. A plate of Ugba cost less than $1 in the local eateries.
It’s normally eaten with cooked Kanda or kpomo, fish, abacha, pepper and utabazi.
is a local food eaten mostly in the eastern and Western parts of Nigeria.
This food is made from tingly sliced cassava tuber and later sun dried to get the crispy texture.
A plate of abacha costs less than $1 in the local eateries.
Abacha is a very popular Nigerian dish and similar to Ugba in terms of method and ingredients of preparation.
It’s very rich in carbohydrate unlike ugba which is rich in protein.
This is a soup prepared from fresh leaf vegetables with assorted meat, fish periwinkles, snails and palm oil.
It’s very rich in vitamins, protein and fat, it’s a great food for building blood, and body immunity.
Afang soup is popular in southern Nigeria and it’s eaten amongst locals.
It costs $10 to $15 to prepare this food depending on your location
is prepared from yam there may ways of preparing yam porridge.
It's a carbohydrate rich food and can be taken for lunch and dinner.
It costs around $5 to prepare yam porridge for 3 people.
It's usually served alone.
This is a popular Nigerian food, sparingly prepared during festivals, marriage ceremony, Christmas, Easter, Muslim festivals or any other great occasion.
It consists of meat, green peas, corn, caned beans and other spice, not everyone can prepare this dish so it requires special hands to get it cooked.
It costs around $10 to prepare fried rice for 5 persons, always eaten alone.
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