Monday, October 11, 2010
Nigeria Food
Nigerian food has a great variety as there exists a great number of ethnic groups in Nigeria. However with time, lot more new types food are becoming popular, making fast food is an important part of the food in Nigeria. The unity among the people in Nigeria influence them to have their meals together.
Food of Nigeria includes meat, vegetables, fruits as well as the carbohydrates. Meats consumed by the Nigerians are beef, chicken, mutton, lamb, turkey, geese, pigeon, fish, guinea fowls, crab, shrimp and other sea food. Fruits include bananas, oranges, tangerines, pineapples, carrots, guavas, watermelons, melons, grapes, limes, mangoes, apples, tomatoes, peas and a lot more.
As Nigeria culture is a combination of the cultural influences of many tribes, there comes the variation in the recipes. However, palm oil is the common factor in almost all the dishes. A few common Nigerian food are isu, which is basically spiced boiled yams, dodo, which is fried plantains, efo, which is green stew, iyan, which is pounded yams and jollof rice, Nigerian stew and Chinchin. Rice is the staple carbohydrate in the Nigerian food.
Other common Nigerian food are lentil, maze beens and cassava. The most important thing to note is that, the production of food items in Nigeria is so high that food items, which include vegetables, fruits and other processed food are exported to other countries
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Food of Nigeria includes meat, vegetables, fruits as well as the carbohydrates. Meats consumed by the Nigerians are beef, chicken, mutton, lamb, turkey, geese, pigeon, fish, guinea fowls, crab, shrimp and other sea food. Fruits include bananas, oranges, tangerines, pineapples, carrots, guavas, watermelons, melons, grapes, limes, mangoes, apples, tomatoes, peas and a lot more.
As Nigeria culture is a combination of the cultural influences of many tribes, there comes the variation in the recipes. However, palm oil is the common factor in almost all the dishes. A few common Nigerian food are isu, which is basically spiced boiled yams, dodo, which is fried plantains, efo, which is green stew, iyan, which is pounded yams and jollof rice, Nigerian stew and Chinchin. Rice is the staple carbohydrate in the Nigerian food.
Other common Nigerian food are lentil, maze beens and cassava. The most important thing to note is that, the production of food items in Nigeria is so high that food items, which include vegetables, fruits and other processed food are exported to other countries
First Posted on:
www.mapsofworld.com/nigeria/culture/food.html
Saturday, October 9, 2010
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. xamples 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.
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 tomatos, onions and small chilli peppers to make red stew.
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.
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 tomatos, onions and small chilli peppers to make red stew.
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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