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There’s a wide range of Nigerian foods available today. The wide variety of ethnic communities found in Nigeria means that the nation located in West Africa has a varied and rich culinary tradition. Like other West African countries, most Nigerian Foods uses spices and herbs in combination with palm oil or groundnut oil in order to create deeply flavoured sauces and soups often made very hot with chili peppers. There are some staples and ingredients that cross the country’s state borders and there are lots ofNigerian foodsthat are not mentioned here but these are some of the foods we recommend you try when next you visit Nigeria. Nigerian foods consists mainly of rice, yam, cassava, plantain and beans just to name a few.

These are prepared and eaten with the various soups and sometimes stew recipes. Some Nigerian foods can also be prepared in jollof or porridge form.

1.) Agidi Jollof

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This delicious Nigerian food comes with a soft bone inside otherwise known as (Okpukpu Agidi) . It is a very light food that can serve for either lunch or dinner and can also serve as a snack. It is usually wrapped in a leaf known as Uma leaf but you can also put it in a plastic container, or even aluminium foil. It’s a low-cost food, all that is needed is just a few ingredients to prepare, This is a must eat food for every Nigerian home.

2.) Pap (Akamu or Ogi)

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Made from corn, this traditional food, when combined with Akara, Fried plantain or Fried Yam tastes so great. It is also a very nice and nutritious baby food. Evaporated milk added to Akamu, gives you a great taste.

3.) Nkwobi

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This is a super Nigerian delicacy simply prepared by mixing a well cooked cow foot or cow head with a spicy palm oil paste. Usually served in exclusive restaurants. It goes very well with any kind of drink.

4.) Tuwo Shinkafa

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This food has its origin from the northern part of Nigeria It is prepared with a special quality of soft rice. It goes down well with Northern Nigerian soups and some other Nigerian soups as well.

5.) Nigerian Groundnut soup (peanut soup)

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This is a very great substitute for Egusi soup and both share the same method of preparation. Some of the ingredients you need are: peeled groundnut, assorted fish and meat, palm oil, fluted pumpkin leaves, crayfish, salt and pepper.

6.) Ji Abubo (Yam and Vegetable Sauce)

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This is known mostly with the Igbo’s. One of the most delicious delicacies in Igbo land.

7.) Boli (Roasted plantain)

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This can come in two ways; the ripe and the unripe, whichever you chose, the taste is great.

8.) Plantain porridge

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For this particular food, its preparation is fast and easy but that doesn’t cancel the fact that it is very rich in iron especially with the unripe one. It goes better with dried fish, or if you like, meat. Vegetable is a must for this delicacy.

9.) Abacha (African Salad)

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Just as the name implies, it is a purely African Salad. Though most people still see it as a complete meal on its own, it is good to be taken as an in-between meal. Abacha is made from cassava.

10.) Ugba (Oil bean)

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Oh my! Ask an Igbo about this, he will tell you a better story than I would ever do!

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Lalasticlala

Add yours pls..let's know the missing delicacies.

the only one i haven't tasted is 4 & 5. might have tasted 5 without knowing though.

JOLOF RICE NKO?




Or is op reporting live from Uzbekistan, his birthplace?



To talk about Nigerian foods and not talk about Jolof Rice is sinful, sacrilegious, repugnant, and infinitely abhorrent

1, 4 and 9....Yummy yummy yummy! I don't joke with them.. But I prefer my tuwo with gbegiri soup(Eni zowa).. Any Nupe man/woman in the house?

buygala:
JOLOF RICE NKO?




Or is op reporting live from Uzbekistan, his birthplace?



To talk about Nigerian foods and not talk about Jolof Rice is sinful, sacrilegious, repugnant, and infinitely abhorrent

chai! Bros no vex abeg. Being the First to comment, You should have added it before blowing all this grammar.. + jollof rice originated from senegambia

I can't wait to taste all of these when I go to Ng...for sure these are all spicy & hot...

KashyBaby:
I can't wait to taste all of these when I go to Ng...for sure these are all spicy & hot...

so where are you now?

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Ifokore should be in that list.

Ugba agukariala'm ahu


Op, you don do sumbori strong thing

midolian:
so where are you now?

I'm In Singapore no Nigerian/African food here...

U need to add more cos av eaten all of those

I have eaten all. I want to try ghanian food now. Banku et all

KashyBaby:
I'm In Singapore no Nigerian/African food here...

hun! ..what are the best meals over there, kashybaby?

Errrmmm....Op,you mean that if I never chop these 10 delicacies I no go die?:/.I've eaten 1,2,3,7,8,9,10.
I'm Igbo but I don't like(fancy) Ugba.
You didn't add Okpa,Epiti.

@rilwayne001 that food is done with water yam not coco yam, it should really be at the top of the list

chai! 0p why are u doing this to me ooooooh?
i go swear for u ooo.

nkwobi yee nkwobi eh..eh,.. eh..eh...yea uuuuh....oyeaa lle.. le..
i must chop u diz week oh..ho..ho, ooh..la.. la..la...po po..po. haaa
na op doz coz wahala ..la lla la la la la la la...
weda for money or for credit ...popo ro..ro..rom..parara..parara...
choi! mama..mama...mama uju get ready for shortage on ur own side.. shor.. shor...tage.
coz i go evn chop chop chop chop that pomo

IamDino:
Errrmmm....Op,you mean that if I never chop these 10 delicacies I no go die?:/.I've eaten 1,2,3,7,8,9,10.
I'm Igbo but I don't like(fancy) Ugba.
You didn't add Okpa,Epiti.

lemme see how they look like

delishpot:
I have eaten all. I want to try ghanian food now. Banku et all

lol..ghanaian foods are sweet too..only that some makes one grow big hips and bum.

I have tasted 2, 4, 7 and 8. I hope to taste others someday, before I die

give roasted goat and yam and palm oil a try. . . And thank me later

midolian:
lol..ghanaian foods are sweet too..only that some makes one grow big hips and bum.

Hahah. I will manage it so

What if I didn't eat them all nkor?


Does that means I've not fulfilled a righteous life?

#shoro ni midolian so yi sha?

Neyoor:
What if I didn't eat them all nkor?




Does that means I've not fulfilled a righteous life?


#shoro ni midolian so yi sha?

No, bro! It only means you didn't eat enough delicacies before death..lol

midolian:
No, bro! It only means you didn't eat enough delicacies before death..lol

So you mean the satisfaction I used to derived from foods like:

FUFU

AMALA


EBA


IYAN


EKURU


`EKO


`EGBO

JOLLOFU

FRIED RICE

EWA

ASARO


TUWO


FURA

ISU

are nothing compare to this one you listed above?

Abi why must I eat them before death o, convince me more

Neyoor:
So you mean the satisfaction I used to derived from foods like:

FUFU

AMALA


EBA


IYAN


EKURU


`EKO


`EGBO

JOLLOFU

FRIED RICE

EWA

ASARO


TUWO


FURA

ISU

are nothing compare to this one you listed above?

Abi why must I eat them before death o, convince me more

All these are not rich enough. These are the same set of food I eat all of the time too ..I tasted almost all that I listed on this thread during service... A trial will convince you.

Yummy list.

wey pounded yam

I have eaten all of them except the Tuo Shinkafa

@Op your list is biased and mainly centred around the Eastern part.


We do have many rich delicacies in Nigeria that are not on the list.