Honestly, Nigerian foods consist of dishes from the different ethnic groups in Nigeria.

From South East, South South, South West to North East, North Central and North West.

In reality, Nigeria has a diverse and rich culinary tradition that consists of spices, herbs, palm, and groundnut to make enormously flavored sauces and soup.

Numerous ingredients and staples cut across state borders as well.

The country just like most of the West African countries like Ghana, Cameroon, Cote D’ivoire etc, has one of the best dishes in the world, and they have different varieties depending on what part of the country one comes from or resides.

So if you would love to enjoy mouth-watering foods that will make you love Nigerian recipes and wow your taste bud, I think you should consider traveling to Nigeria to experience this aspect of Nigerian culture and cuisines in a dynamic way.

Do you want to take your taste buds on a spectacular journey? If your answer is ‘yes’, then you need to visit Nigeria or Naija as it’s fondly called.

However, some of the top soups consumed in the various regions or parts of the country include Egusi soup, Banga soup, Miyan Kuka, Okro soup, Ewedu soup, Pepper soup, Afang, and Edikan Ikon soup.

The ingredients used to prepare these soups range from local condiments such as Ugu or pumpkin leaf, processed locust beans or Iru, to vegetables such as spinach, waterleaf, bitter leaf etc.

These soups are generally eaten with ‘swallow’, starchy foods such as Akpu or Fufu, Eba, Amala, starch, pounded yam, etc.

Due to international influence in the Nigerian food culture by British, Portuguese, Dutch, and other European traders in the early days, spices such as Thyme, Curry, Ginger, Nutmeg, Cloves, Habanero pepper, and Scotch Bonnet are used to garnish so many Nigerian foods.

Also, it’s important to know that Nigerian dishes never run out of protein. Various meats such as cow, beef, mutton, and chicken and different species of fish are often used to garnish it to your relish.

Also common in the southern regions of the country is the use of seafood such as prawns, periwinkles, clams, snails, and crabs for preparing soups and stews.

These dishes will blow your taste buds honestly.

In general, rice is consumed in every part of the country either prepared as coconut rice, jollof rice, and fried rice or processed into the traditional dish Pate, which is a combination of rice with ground dry corn, spinach, tomatoes, onion, peppers, garden eggs, locust beans, groundnuts, biscuit bones, and minced meat.

Pate is commonly eaten in northern part of Nigerian states such as Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Plateau, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Sokoto etc.

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