Nigerian cuisine

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Egusi soup with Ponmo, beef and fish

Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of Native African ethnic groups that comprises Nigeria.[1][2] Like other West African cuisines, it uses spices and herbs with palm oil or groundnut oil to create deeply flavored sauces and soups.[3]

Nigerian feasts can be colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are in abundance and varied.[4] Bushmeat is also consumed in Nigeria. The brush-tailed porcupine and cane rats are the most popular bushmeat species in Nigeria.[5][6][7][8]

Tropical fruits such as watermelon, pineapple, coconut, banana, orange and mango are mostly consumed in Nigeria.[9][10][11][12]

Nigerian cuisine, like many West African cuisines, is known for being savoury and spicy.

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