Nigerian recipes

Soups, stews, rice dishes, snacks and drinks from Nigeria. Many of the soups are eaten with a swallow, a soft dough such as pounded yam, eba (made from garri) or amala (made from yam flour), which is used to scoop up the soup by hand. Recipes for swallows have their own page.

Palm oil, ground crayfish, dried fish, stock cubes and chilli come up often in Nigerian cooking. If you cook Nigerian food regularly, adding these to your pantry makes the match on each recipe more useful, so you can see what else a dish needs before you shop.

Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups, and the recipes here come from many of them. Some groups have their own pages: Yoruba recipes from the south-west, Hausa recipes from the north, Igbo recipes from the south-east and Efik recipes from the south-south. All of them also appear under the West African cuisine filter in search.