6 dishes
Northern Nigerian table
Hausa and northern dishes built around grains, rice swallows, dried spices, groundnut, baobab leaves, and street foods.
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Nigerian party jollof rice cooked in a fried tomato-pepper base with stock, thyme, curry powder, bay leaves, and a smoky bottom.
A classic Yoruba plate of yam flour swallow served with jute leaf ewedu, silky bean gbegiri, and stew.
Efik-Ibibio vegetable soup loaded with ugu, waterleaf, palm oil, meat, stockfish, crayfish, and periwinkles.
Efik-Ibibio vegetable soup with shredded afang leaves, waterleaf, palm oil, meat, stockfish, crayfish, and periwinkles.
Yoruba green pepper stew cooked with bleached palm oil, iru, assorted meats, and boiled eggs, usually served with Ofada rice.
Northern Nigerian pumpkin and groundnut soup with meat, leafy greens, tomato-pepper base, dawadawa, and warm spices.
Igbo oha leaf soup cooked with cocoyam thickener, palm oil, meat, dried fish, crayfish, and ogiri.
Nigerian palm nut soup with meat or fish, banga spices, dried fish, crayfish, chile, and fresh herbs.
A steamed Nigerian bean pudding made from peeled black-eyed peas blended with peppers, onion, oil, and seasoning, then cooked...
Eastern Nigerian Bambara nut pudding steamed with palm oil, pepper, onion, and salt until firm and tender.
Soft Nigerian fried dough balls made from yeasted flour batter, lightly sweetened and fried until golden.
Northern Nigerian baobab leaf soup cooked with meat stock, dried fish, dawadawa, palm oil, chile, and fine kuka powder.
Nigerian egusi soup with ground melon seeds, palm oil, pepper base, assorted meats, stockfish, crayfish, and leafy greens.
Igbo white soup made without palm oil, thickened with yam and cooked with catfish, crayfish, uziza, and utazi.
South-South Nigerian seafood soup with fresh fish, prawns, periwinkles, crayfish, pepper, yam thickener, and aromatic leaves.
Nigerian black-eyed pea fritters blended with onion and pepper, whipped light, then fried until crisp outside and fluffy inside.
A hot, aromatic Nigerian broth made with goat, chicken, fish, or assorted meat, pepper soup spice, chile, onion, and scent le...
Northern Nigerian fermented rice cakes cooked in small wells until lightly crisp outside and soft inside.
Nigerian suya, thin beef skewers coated in yaji, the smoky Hausa spice blend of kuli-kuli, chile, ginger, onion, garlic, and...
A Yoruba spinach and pepper stew cooked with palm oil, locust beans, crayfish, and assorted meats or fish.
A northern Nigerian rice swallow cooked until soft, mashed smooth, and shaped into mounds for soups like miyan kuka or miyan...
Igbo cassava salad tossed with palm oil dressing, ugba, fish, crayfish, onion, garden egg, and utazi.
Hausa bean flour dumplings boiled until tender, then dressed with oil, yaji, onions, tomato, and boiled egg.
Nigerian roasted plantain served hot with groundnuts or a spicy pepper sauce.
Kunu Zaki is a Nigeria drink built around millet or sorghum, ginger, cloves, and sweet potato, and the serving logic of cold...
Zobo is a Nigeria drink built around dried hibiscus, ginger, pineapple, and cloves, and the serving logic of cold over ice.
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Hausa and northern dishes built around grains, rice swallows, dried spices, groundnut, baobab leaves, and street foods.
Amala, ewedu, gbegiri, pepper stews, leafy soups, beans, and market foods from the Yoruba cooking orbit.
The foods that cross state lines: jollof, puff puff, pepper soup, boli, small chops, and shared celebration plates.
Cassava salads, oha, white soup, bambara nut cakes, palm oil, smoked fish, and cocoyam-thickened soups.
Riverine soups, palm nut richness, seafood, afang, edikang ikong, and deeply seasoned broths.
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