Nigerian Regional Table
A Nigeria-focused collection that keeps regional dishes, soups, swallows, street foods, and party plates connected. It currently spans Nigeria. Recipe types include soup, breakfast, main dish, and side. Cooking times in this collection run about 40-130 minutes.
Exploring Nigeria by region, building a fuller table, and moving from one Nigerian dish to the next with context.
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A Nigeria-focused collection that keeps regional dishes, soups, swallows, street foods, and party plates connected. It currently spans Nigeria. Recipe types include soup, breakfast, main dish, and side. Cooking times in this collection run about 40-130 minutes.
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Exploring Nigeria by region, building a fuller table, and moving from one Nigerian dish to the next with context.
soup, breakfast, main dish, and side
40-130 minutes
Dishes inside Nigerian Regional Table
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Main dish
Jollof Rice
Nigerian party jollof rice cooked in a fried tomato-pepper base with stock, thyme, curry powder, bay leaves, and a smoky bo...
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Side
Tuwo Shinkafa
A northern Nigerian rice swallow cooked until soft, mashed smooth, and shaped into mounds for soups like miyan kuka or miya...
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Main dish
Amala, Ewedu and Gbegiri
A classic Yoruba plate of yam flour swallow served with jute leaf ewedu, silky bean gbegiri, and stew.
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Street food
Abacha
Igbo cassava salad tossed with palm oil dressing, ugba, fish, crayfish, onion, garden egg, and utazi.
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Soup
Afang Soup
Efik-Ibibio vegetable soup with shredded afang leaves, waterleaf, palm oil, meat, stockfish, crayfish, and periwinkles.
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Snack
Suya
Nigerian suya, thin beef skewers coated in yaji, the smoky Hausa spice blend of kuli-kuli, chile, ginger, onion, garlic, an...
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Breakfast
Akara
Nigerian black-eyed pea fritters blended with onion and pepper, whipped light, then fried until crisp outside and fluffy in...
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Stew
Ayamase
Yoruba green pepper stew cooked with bleached palm oil, iru, assorted meats, and boiled eggs, usually served with Ofada rice.
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Soup
Banga Soup
Nigerian palm nut soup with meat or fish, banga spices, dried fish, crayfish, chile, and fresh herbs.
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Street food
Boli
Nigerian roasted plantain served hot with groundnuts or a spicy pepper sauce.
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Main dish
Dan Wake
Hausa bean flour dumplings boiled until tender, then dressed with oil, yaji, onions, tomato, and boiled egg.
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Soup
Edikang Ikong
Efik-Ibibio vegetable soup loaded with ugu, waterleaf, palm oil, meat, stockfish, crayfish, and periwinkles.
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Stew
Efo Riro
A Yoruba spinach and pepper stew cooked with palm oil, locust beans, crayfish, and assorted meats or fish.
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Soup
Egusi Soup
Nigerian egusi soup with ground melon seeds, palm oil, pepper base, assorted meats, stockfish, crayfish, and leafy greens.
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Soup
Fisherman Soup
South-South Nigerian seafood soup with fresh fish, prawns, periwinkles, crayfish, pepper, yam thickener, and aromatic leaves.
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Recipe
Kunu Zaki
Kunu Zaki is a drink with millet or sorghum, ginger, cloves, and sweet potato. Serve
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Breakfast
Masa
Northern Nigerian fermented rice cakes cooked in small wells until lightly crisp outside and soft inside.
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Soup
Miyan Kuka
Northern Nigerian baobab leaf soup cooked with meat stock, dried fish, dawadawa, palm oil, chile, and fine kuka powder.
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Soup
Miyan Taushe
Northern Nigerian pumpkin and groundnut soup with meat, leafy greens, tomato-pepper base, dawadawa, and warm spices.
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Side
Moi Moi
A steamed Nigerian bean pudding made from peeled black-eyed peas blended with peppers, onion, oil, and seasoning, then cook...
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Soup
Nigerian Pepper Soup
A hot, aromatic Nigerian broth made with goat, chicken, fish, or assorted meat, pepper soup spice, chile, onion, and scent...
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Soup
Ofe Nsala
Igbo white soup made without palm oil, thickened with yam and cooked with catfish, crayfish, uziza, and utazi.
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Soup
Oha Soup
Igbo oha leaf soup cooked with cocoyam thickener, palm oil, meat, dried fish, crayfish, and ogiri.
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Breakfast
Okpa
Eastern Nigerian Bambara nut pudding steamed with palm oil, pepper, onion, and salt until firm and tender.
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