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Have you ever wondered why Igbo cuisine has so much variety?

Igbo food is currently popular in the Nigerian food sphere, and as Igbos continue to migrate across the country and beyond, more and more are outsides being introduced to the wide array of Igbo cuisine.

Some Igbo delicacies

More Igbo delicacies

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Lala, thus thing deserve FP.
Omo see chow, one of the few reasons I wan marry igbo girl. Though I still believe calabar has more varieties
Btw, that Banga soup is a Niger Delta food and not igbo.
Pls those attacking me, I didn't say u guys dont have ur own banga soup o, I am just saying banga soup originated from the Niger Delta.

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Also importantly, was the amount of spices that Igbos grew and used regularly.

Prior to the advent of maggi, the average Igbo family was able to create very flavourful dishes with the various spices that could be found around igboland. Some of them can be seen below:

Even up to now, it is much easier to find igbos cookign foods with little to no imported ingredients.

some of them below

You're sure the efik/ibibio don't have more varieties?
Anyway,which one you want give us chop?

You are somewhat right...


Aside the popular delicacies like Egusi with ugu, ogbono, oha, abacha, olugbu, Nsala or others, each community and regions in Ala-Igbo have their distinct meals and food that they so much cherish.

You can find among the Nsukkas Okpa, ayaraya ji, ayaraya az'z' (oka), otupiri, igbangwu, Aribo etc

Among the Nkanu and Nike people they have their fiofio, akidi and some other meals

Owerri have their popular soups,

Abia people, they equally have their various soups kinda looking like those of the Akwa-Ibom

And lots more...

The interesting thing here is that these varieties of foods are prepared mainly using the popularly known ingredients and little unknown ingredients to distinguish their food.

OK, I will now go back to posting more Igbo delicacies

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Some soups. For most known Igbo soups, like someone pointed out, various villages and towns have diverse ways of preparing. Some of them to the degree that they end up being almost something new.

More soups

Good food One reason I wish to marry from my side

Does anyone else have any pictures of Igbo delicacies? ( preferably not soups). I personally would have posted more soups. (And there are a lot of them) But I already created a thread focusing on them here:

https://www.nairaland.com/6364237/showcasing-diversity-igbo-cuisine

I have heard of a lot more foods myself, but the sad thing is that there are no google images I can find to support it. Taking pictures of your village or town's foods is always a welcome development.

Unlike those that only eat algae soup cooked with toilet broom

Establish Igbo kitchen anywhere in Nigeria and watch how the locals will abandon their own and be thronging there.

No be chides, he who God don bless....

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Shiver99:
More soups

This is why as a confirm Yoruba guy from Igbęsa Ogun state i will marry an igbo woman so that I will also enjoy these foods in my lifetime and not just the Amala ati Ewedu my Yoruba wife has been forcing down my throat ever since we got married.

Igbos has more food variety than ibibio has.

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Michelle70:
Lala, thus thing deserve FP.
Omo see chow, one of the few reasons I wan marry igbo girl. Though I still believe calabar has more varieties
Btw, that Banga soup is a Niger Delta food and not igbo

marry southsouth and you will never regret it. It na food things o, I give it to southsouth.

adedayoa2:
marry southsouth and you will never regret it. It na food things o, I give it to southsouth.

ya, Calabar, and urhobo takes the crown

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Shiver99:
Some Igbo delicacies

Ekpang belongs to the efiks.It is not an Igbo delicacy