customary Nigerian recipes

Staple foods prestige the Nigerian fare include: peanuts or ground-nuts, yams, cassava, fish, rice, okra, bananas, guinea corn and millet, also palm nuts. 

They are repeatedly starchy further Nigerians love to cook hush up a company of pepper further spices especially those from the southwest and southeast.  This recipe uses gross personal ingredients to induce a tasty and nourishing meal.

These recipes celebrate the traditional food of Nigeria:-

Egusi Soup

Ground Egusi seeds grant this multiplicity a unique color and flavour. If you can't find Egusi seeds significance your store, you amenability substitute pumpkin seeds or Pepitas which you can find notoriety Latin American grocery stores.  This assortment is thickened dissemble flour ground from seeds of gourds, melons, pumpkins, also squashes, many of which are emblematic to Africa.  


200 g soak Leaves
50 g Egusi seeds
1 teaspoon Dry Ground feverous Pepper
1 medium Onion
100ml Palm Oil
10g Dry Ground Crayfish
120g Fresh Tomatoes
100ml Water
Salt & Pepper to taste

Wash the water leaves truly in clean, fresh water.
Liquidise or pulverise the onions, tomatoes and egusi seeds until smooth.
Add the dry ground pepper again fry imprint palm oil for five minutes.
Add the water, root the lid on and execute over five minutes.
Now include the soak leaves, replace lid and cook for a further five minutes.
Finally, build in the crayfish and seasoning, warming through well.

Serve obscure pounded yam or cooked rice and a meat stew, to provide protein. 
Alternatively, serve not tell eba, fufu or any suitable carbohydrate.

Curried Okra

This traditional recipe for Okra (or Okro, in that it is called in some part of Nigeria) is one that can be created anywhere pressure the world, as it uses ingredients that can be found in component local store.

The word “okra” comes from Africa and constituent "lady's fingers" importance Igbo, isolated of the languages oral notoriety Nigeria.  Although Okra originated from Africa, veritable is whereas available around the system.  Some connections consider Okra diacritic is ever gooey, but this gratifying recipe makes good use of it's properties.

When buying supplementary okra, look for young pods unshackle of bruises, propose but not soft, and no more than 4 inches long.


500g Okra
2 Onions
180g Oil
3 cloves garlic
2 Tomatoes
2 teaspoons of curry powder
½ teaspoon of turmeric
Pinch of black pepper
½ teaspoon of salt

Slice one of the onions finely and fry gently importance oil.
Liquidise the remaining onion, tomatoes also garlic.
Add this puree to the frying onions.
Add the spices.
Fry gently since five minutes.
Top and top the okra further cut into pieces about 1cm thick.
Add to the spices and make gently over 10-15 minutes.

Serve adumbrate cooked rice again a noddy stew, for protein.

With thanks to the Nigerian people who prepared us so welcome in their homes,  gave us a predilection of traditional Nigerian entree besides who helped us overcome our worry of eating with our fingers!