Dinner
Egusi Soup
Ground melon seeds cooked in palm oil with leafy greens, meat and stockfish until they set into rich, savoury curds…
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Nigerian dinner recipes
10 Nigerian dinner recipes, in a suggested order.
These are the 10 Nigerian recipes filed under dinner: 10 of the 2,108 dinners on the site, and 10 of its 16 Nigerian recipes. Of these, one is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. By difficulty: 5 easy and 5 medium.
As written, 3 are vegetarian, 3 vegan, 5 gluten-free and 8 dairy-free. Another 2 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Nigerian main dishes
Dinner
Nigerian Pepper Soup
A thin, fiercely hot broth built on a blend of West African spices, with goat, fish or chicken and almost nothing…
Dinner
Efo Riro
A rich Nigerian stew of spinach in a base of red pepper, scotch bonnet and palm oil, with beef, smoked fish and…
Dinner
Ofada Rice
Nutty local brown rice served with ayamase, a fiery green pepper and palm oil stew with beef and boiled eggs, a…
Side dishes 4
Filed under Dinner but not a main dish on its own: side dish. Filter these.
- Fried Yam 20 min
- Jollof Rice 90–105 min
- Nigerian Fried Rice 45 min
- Pounded Yam 35 min
Not yet sorted 2
Whether these are a main course, a side or a starter depends on how they are served, and nobody has settled it yet. They are listed here rather than counted as complete meals.
- Moi Moi 90 min
- Plantain and Beans 50 min