NIGERIA IS BEAUTIFUL! (Vol. 2)






A LOOK AT OUR MOUTH-WATERING DELICACIES


Nigeria’s beauty is reflected in not just our tourist attraction sites like we’ve been able to see in the previous volume.

It is important to make mention of the superb landscapes and works of nature which we succeeded in doing in the last volume. In this volume, we’ll be shifting our focus to beauty from the perspective of tourism to food. 

I’m sure you must be wondering right now, trying to ask what is the correlation between beauty and food. When talking about beauty in the context of this series, we are looking at not just the surface, but the total package which includes not just tourism, delicacies (food), modes of dressing among others. We’ll be restricted to the delicacies (food) this volume. Besides, when meals appear good looking, inviting and attractive, they can be seen as beautiful job well done! 

So let’s begin!

Nigeria has over 100 traditional meals spanning across the over 250 ethnic groups in the country. My use of the word ‘traditional’ was intentional. The likes of commonly consumed rice, cornflakes, bread among others are not included in this group. It is no doubt that Nigerian meals are delicious, inviting and mouth-watering! It’s definitely on thing we can boast about.  It is one of the major reasons why those in diaspora miss home. For guys and ladies who barely know how to cook or are stuck with convenient foods as well as cooking of ‘common’ meals like rice, beans, plantain, fried eggs among others, they fall into this category of Nostalgic fellows on the basis of food. 

Apart from the fact that these meals taste really good, they are highly nutritious especially when well financially taken care of (with the voice of ‘foodu wey sweet o, na money kill am’). Credits to our ‘mothers’ (both alive and dead – grandmothers, great grandmothers e.t.c), our generation today can enjoy these traditional dishes. The continuity and survival of this foot should be encouraged as the future of its sustenance looks bleak. This calls for the need to learn how to not just eat but most importantly, cook these meals.

Nigeria seems to be the home of various traditional soups made from several vegetables and other plants. We are also on top of our game with the use of starchy crops in transforming them to what is popularly known as ‘swallow’. To crown it all, we don’t slack when it comes to the ‘encouraging part’. By ‘encouraging part’, I mean the use of animal products like beef, smoked fish and other fish types, shrimps, lobsters and so on. Imagine a meal of Amala and Efo riro with pieces of smoked fish, chopped beef and cuts of pomo.




Yummy!

Below are pictures and examples of Nigerian mouth-watering delicacies!


















Delicacy-wise, Nigeria is beautiful!   

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