Nigerian Food Recipe Helping You Explore Top Nigerian Recipes
Nigerian food recipes come mainly from a selection of semi solid doughs or boiled servings prepared from cassava, plantain, yam, cocoyam, millet, beans, maize, or rice, served with a typical Nigerian soup or stew.
Meals are also served with plenty of fruits easily grown near homes.
A very light meal is often eaten in the morning, like akara (shown here in the top right), served with pap (ogi or ), or bread and a cup of tea.
Lunch is eaten at about 1 to 2 pm, and dinner anywhere from 6pm to 8pm.
In between food, snacking is very common. Popular Nigerian snacks include:
Chin chin
Fried plantain chips (kpekere)
Roasted corn or maize
Ground nut (Gugurou and ekpa)
Suya
kilishi
Cooking is a very important skill quickly learned at very young age by both boys and girls, even more so by the female child. Most cooking are done by the ladies, and families often cook their own meal rather than eat out.
No wonder learning how to prepare Nigerian food dishes is a must for to be wives who happen to be married to the traditional Nigerian man. It is a common saying in Nigeria that "the fastest way to a man's heart is via his moth"... and you get there by learning to cook delicious meals!
We bring you top five Nigerian food recipes here, but you will find a list of "zillions" of Nigerian foods on
the Nigerian foods list section here
Top Nigerian Foods
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Foods eaten in Nigeria, like in most hot climes, are often very spicy. We will describe them here as they would have been cooked anywhere in Nigeria; hot, spicy and tantalizing!
Top on the list of the different foods eaten in Nigeria includes rice, followed by eba, beans, yam, maize, potato, macaroni, plantain and several other all of which comes in deferent recipes. there are different Nigerian food recipes, rice comes in different recipes.
the rice recipes include jellof rice, fried rice, ofada rice and it can also be cooked white and eaten with stew. Jellof rice happens to be the most popular rice recipe eaten in Nigeria and here is how to cook jellof rice.
Jellof Rice Recipe
The ingredients includes: 3 cups of rice, onions, one medium sized blender full of ground tomatoes, 2 cubes of maggi seasoning, curry powder, thyme, meat(turkey, chicken, beef or fish), salt and pepper to taste.
preparation: wash meat and parboil with 1 ball of onion, maggi seasoning, curry powder, thyme, salt and any other meat spice. boil for 5 to 8 minute, add water then boil till it is soft for consumption. Separate from the water and fry.
Blend the tomatoes and pepper together up to 1/2 blender full, and set aside. parboil the rice, wash and set aside Now put your cooking pot on fire, allow to dry, add about 4 to 5 cooking spoon full of groundnut oil, heat for about 3 minute then add the sliced onions to the hot oil and stir.
Add the ground tomatoes, fry and stir for the next 10 to 15 minute till the sour taste is eliminated then add water about 2 to 3 cups of water, add maggi seasoning, salt to taste, and more onions. Taste for salt before adding the rice. You may allow the salt to be excess a little bit as the rice would absorb some.
Once it taste nice, add the rice, stir evenly and cook till it is soft for consumption. Once done, serve with the fried meat and maybe a bottle of coke too.
Fried rice is one of the most hard to prepare Nigerian food, lots of different processes are involved and here is a comprehensive guide on How to Make Fried Rice, the Nigerian way. And like I said...In Nigeria rice can be boiled white and eaten with stew and here is how to make Nigerian stew. Rice and stew is a very popular Nigerian food.
How to cook Egusi Soup
Eba comes second on the list of foods eaten in Nigeria, eba goes alongside with different kinds of Nigerian soups and could be substituted with garri, fufu, pounded yam, or amala in the case of a Yoruba man There are different kind of Nigerian soups and here is how to make my favorite Nigerian egusi soup.
The ingredients includes: Ground 2 to 3 cups of egusi, stock fish, 3 cubes maggi seasoning, onions, pepper, dried fish(mangala), vegetable(bitter leaf, green leaf(ugu) and meat of your choice(chicken, beef, turkey, or any fish)
Wash the meat with warn water and cook with 2 cubes of maggi, salt, onions, and other meat spices for about 5 minutes then add water and cook till the meat is soft enough for consumption then set aside.(don't allow the water to dry totally)
soak the dried fish and stuck fish separately in hot water and wash thoroughly to remove every pinch of sand(as that could cause a blunder)
blend the egusi and mix with cool water to form a tick egusi syrup then set your pot on fire and add about 1/4 liters of oil allow to heat for about 5 to 10 minutes then add the egusi syrup and stir till it forms seed-like rumps with no coagulations. Then add the boiled soft meat and you are almost done. add the dried fish, crayfish, one cube of maggi, pepper and salt to taste.
Stir and cook for about twenty minutes till the egusi settles down to thicken the soup; add your vegetable and you are done. Serve with eba, pounded yam, garri or amala.
Yam happens to be one of my favorite Nigerian foods and there are different yam recipes in Nigeria, we cook white yam and eat with stew, porridge or pottage yam, fried yam, roasted yam and stew and could also be eaten with red oil and pepper.
How to Cook Nigerian Porridge Yam
Porridge yam is one of the simple and easy to make Nigerian food and could be made with oil or tomatoes and here is how to make with tomatoes. The ingredient includes crayfish, maggi seasoning, pepper salt, onions tomatoes and of course a medium sized yam. Peel off the back of the yam and slice into serve-able bits, wash and set aside.
Blend about half or more normal blender size full of tomatoes/pepper and set aside. Put your pot on fire and add about 4 to 5 cooking spoon full of groundnut oil, heat for about 5 minutes then add your tomatoes and stir till the sour taste dissipates (about 10 to 15 minutes) then add about 2 to 3 cups of water. (That will not totally cover the yam)
Add crayfish, maggi seasoning, onions, pepper, and salt to taste then drop the yam and do not allow it to be totally submerged in the water. Cook for about 10 to 15 minute and you are done with your porridge yam, Serve with chilled bottle of coke.
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Nigerian food recipes come mainly from a selection of semi solid doughs or boiled servings prepared from cassava, plantain, yam, cocoyam, millet, beans, maize, or rice, served with a typical Nigerian soup or stew.
