Nigerian Cousine

Geographic Location:

• Nigeria is located in west Africa on the Gulf of Guinea

Climate:

• The climate is arid in the north, tropical in the center, and equatorial in the south.Right now it is 91Degree

Cooking Method:

Ingredients are placed in a pot and slowly over a fire.

Flavor Principle:

• Maggi
• Bitterleaf
• Cassava
• Okra
• Ogbono seeds

Meal Schedule:

• The meal schedule is the same as the one in America, they eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, just like here.

Example of typical meal

• Jollof rice with fried plantains and chicken
• Efo (vegetable soup), smoked fish with malt.

• Iyan and ewedu soup
• Amala and okra soup

Dessert:

• Meat pie
• scotch egg
• plantain chips
• Sausage/ fish roll

 

Drinks

• Minerals (soft drink)
• Water
• Zobo (red drink and it tastes like fruit punch)
• palm wine (a drink made from the juices of palm trees)
• Fruit drinks

• Malt

Interesting Fact

• Africans use lots of spices & Maggi
• Most of the food are healthy