Nigerian Cuisine

Nigerian cuisines range from simple Nigerian foods to very complex recipes, click to watch the video below if you want to have a visual image of some of the popular cuisines from Nigeria. the video is a combination of different Nigerian dishes.

You will learn so much about Nigerian foods here, from the very popular recipes to Nigerian simple desserts and even breakfast recipes.

My utmost desire is to teach you all you need to know about Nigerian dishes. Whether you are new to the whole “Nigerian food” thing or you just want to improve you menu, there is something for every body. videos are also included on most recipes pages in order to make the process a lot easier.

What you find below is a list of my favorite Nigerian cuisines, you can tell me about yours too.

 

Nigerian cuisines are largely dependent on the kind foods, animals and plants that are available to different Nigerian regions. The country is the largest in African, with over one hundred and fifty million citizens as well as six hundred-plus ethnic groups.

These high number of ethnic groups and citizens are one of the major factor to consider when you talk about cuisines from Nigeria.

Nigerian cuisines includes a meal of cereals, legumes, dairy, vegetables, meat, pastas, noodles, and then lots of edible fruits.

The foods eaten in Nigeria vary as you move from the north to the southern part of Nigeria, The northerners are mostly into farming and cattle rearing , they depends largely on agriculture and livestock product, this is why Hausa cuisines are often composed of farm products, meats and different kinds of fruits.

You cannot say the same about people from the River-sides who are into fish farming, these people depend mostly on sea foods, that is where you find different Nigerian fish recipes

This is not also the case when you move down the eastern part of the country; the people of Eastern Nigeria are mostly hunters and cassava farmers, they depend mostly on agricultural products and Bush meat.

People from this part of the country, have been able to combine different farm products that are available to them and animals/fruits – that are often imported from the north – to make create different kind of recipes.

Most Nigerian foods you find on the internet likely originated from the east, south or the western part of Nigeria, very little have been said of Hausa Foods. (Hausa is one of the largest ethnic group in Nigeria; they are the major occupant of the northern region).

However, over the years, the people of Nigeria have (through trade and other means) exchanged foods and different products found in different regions to enable them create tasty cuisines, that is why we have thousands of different Nigerian cuisines.

If you have been to any Nigerian restaurant whether outside or inside Nigeria you will definitely have a hard time making a choice. The cuisines of Nigeria have greatly improved and increased over the year, here you will learn to make some of them.

What you find below is my first list of Nigerian delicious cuisines, you can click through to the pages with detailed guide on making them.

 

Popular Nigerian Cuisines

Here is one of my favorite Nigerian breakfast recipe, I mahe akara (beans cake) and pap. it is one of my favorite Nigerian Cuisine. There are mariad of breakfast ideas from Nigeria.

African salad is a delightful cuisine from Nigeria. It is indiginous to the igbos and could be made in just few minutes. It is called abacha locally.

Spaghetti is a popular foods from Nigeria. It is one of those imported foods that has taken a permanent place on our food menu.

vegetable salad is combined with other Nigerian foods like jollof rice/fried rice and served as lunch or dinner in most Nigerian homes.

This is a popular Nigerian cuisine, in this case, Nigerian soup and eba. In this case it is nsala soups and balls of eba. A delightful food in Nigeria.

Porridge yam is a popular food from Nigeria. It is made with yam (chopped yams), palm oil, crayfish and other ingredients.

There are a whole lots of other cuisines from Nigeria, the list is large because of the number of tribes in Nigeria.

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August 14, 2013
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July 30, 2013
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July 29, 2013

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