Nigerian Food - Green vegetables with aromatic spices.

Nigerian food make up some of the most popular of all African cuisine. They are often in the form of thick rich green vegetables cooked with aromatic spices and garnished with assorted meat or fish.

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Examples of these vegetables stews inlcude, Efo riro, Ewedu and Ofe onugbu from Igbo land. These vegetable dishes are eaten with a choice of cassava or yam flour processed into a soft dough with hot water.
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Yam

The taste of foods eaten in Nigeria range from hot and spicy to bitter and sweet.

Some of the common native ingredients used include vegetables like Spinach, Ewedu (jute leaves) and Melon seeds(Egusi), garnishes like shrimps, crabs, stockfish and snails with tomatoes, onions and small chilli peppers to make red stew.

Edikai Ikong with Pounded yam

Appetisers include barbecued meat like Asun or Suya and Pepper soup, which is made from a selection of aromatic spices and chilli peppers with meat or fish. I really like Cat fish pepper soup, it tastes really delicious and it's spicy.

Preparing the foods can be easy once you have the ingredients and the right recipes.

Nutrition wise foods in Nigeria are a combination of high energy inducing carbohydrates as in Yam or Cassava, vitamins and minerals in vegetables and protein from assorted beef or fish.

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Okra soup

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