Country
What Nigeria cooks with
45 ingredients from the guide appear in the 69 catalogued dishes of Nigeria, in Africa. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of Nigeria
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Every ingredient in Nigeria’s dishes

Beef
13 dishes here

Black pepper
6 dishes here

Calabash nutmeg
3 dishes here

Carob
1 dish here

Carrot
1 dish here

Cassava flour
2 dishes here

Cassava root
6 dishes here

Catfish
1 dish here

Cayenne pepper
3 dishes here

Chamomile
1 dish here

Chicken
2 dishes here

Chili pepper
3 dishes here

Coconut
1 dish here

Cocoyam
1 dish here

Cooking banana
6 dishes here

Cornmeal
3 dishes here

Couscous
1 dish here

Crayfish
16 dishes here

Cucumber
1 dish here

Egg
2 dishes here

Flour
1 dish here

Garri
1 dish here

Goat meat
3 dishes here

Maize
1 dish here

Milk
1 dish here

Millet
2 dishes here

Moringa
2 dishes here

Nutmeg
1 dish here

Okra
1 dish here

Onion
26 dishes here

Palm oil
31 dishes here

Peanut
2 dishes here

Peanut oil
1 dish here

Pumpkin
2 dishes here

Rice
3 dishes here

Scallion
1 dish here

Shrimp
1 dish here

Sorghum grain
1 dish here

Stockfish
2 dishes here

Sugar
1 dish here

Table salt
28 dishes here

Tripe
1 dish here

Vegetable oil
3 dishes here

Water
7 dishes here

Yam
10 dishes here
Photo credits for this page (45)
Palm oil: DromoTetteh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crayfish: JIP · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Yam: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Water: Forbes Johnston from Winchester, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Calabash nutmeg: User:Slashme · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cooking banana: Vis M · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Stockfish: Havang(nl) · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Moringa: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cayenne pepper: Alabama Extension · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cornmeal: Popo le Chien · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cassava flour: Hajia Hijjah · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carob: Nevit Dilmen ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carrot: MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cassava root: David Monniaux · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Catfish: Gary J. Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chamomile: Holly Victoria Norval · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chili pepper: Takeaway · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Coconut: Tom Ek · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cocoyam: Dorcas Atule · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Couscous: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cucumber: Nikodem Nijaki · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flour: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garri: Hadeou Jacob · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Goat meat: Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Maize: Tanvir Rahat · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Millet: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Nutmeg: Herusutimbul · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Okra: Aravind Sivaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Peanut oil: KISUMAR123 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkin: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Scallion: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Shrimp: Gillfoto · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sorghum grain: Salil Kumar Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tripe: Biskuit from Atlanta, GA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vegetable oil: Netojinn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons