Homemade buckwheat bread

Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of ethnic groups that comprise Nigeria. Homemade buckwheat bread feasts can be colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are in abundance and varied. Bushmeat is also consumed in Nigeria. Tropical fruits such as pineapple, coconut, banana, and mango are mostly consumed in Nigeria.

Nigerian cuisine, like many West African cuisines, is known for being spicy. Jollof rice is a rice dish made with pureed tomato and Scotch bonnet-based sauce. Ofada rice is a popular Nigerian rice variety. It is also called unpolished rice as it is rice in its natural state. Fried rice is typically mixed with an assortment of eggs, vegetables, meat, poultry or prawns.

Pate is made with ground dry corn, rice or acha. Tuwo masara is a corn-flour dish eaten in Northern Nigeria. White rice—foreign white rice and local rice is served with local pepper stews and sauces from different tribes. It is widely served with a thick tomato and pepper-based stew. Banga rice is a traditional Nigerian rice recipe made from palm nut and rice. It could be made as jollof or the as white rice with the palm oil stew separate. Curried rice is rice made with fresh turmeric or curry powder, onions, salt and maggi to taste and then vegetable sauce is made to go along with it.