Nigerian Cuisine

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Nigerian food

Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of ethnic groups that comprise Nigeria. Like other West African cuisines, it uses spices and herbs with palm or groundnut oil to create deeply flavored sauces and soups. Nigerian feasts are 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. The brush-tailed porcupine and cane rats are the most popular bushmeat species 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.
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