Nigerian Recipes

Nigerian cuisine is the most popular African food in the UK, driven by the country's large diaspora community. Rich, bold, and unapologetically flavourful, Nigerian cooking centres around soups and stews served with starchy swallows, one-pot rice dishes, grilled meats, and deep-fried snacks that have become beloved comfort foods far beyond West Africa.

The cuisine is divided broadly into soups (egusi, ogbono, okro, efo riro, banga), rice dishes (jollof, fried rice, coconut rice, ofada rice), swallows (eba, pounded yam, amala, fufu), proteins (suya, asun, nkwobi, pepper soup), and snacks (puff puff, akara, chin chin, moi moi). Each region of Nigeria has its own specialities — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and dozens of other culinary traditions contribute to one of the most diverse food cultures on the continent.