page_title: Nigerian cuisine
section_title: Beverages
hierarchical_section_title: Nigerian cuisine / Beverages
caption_attribution_description: A refreshing roselle drink (Author: Dr. Mohamad bin Osman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), mbopar@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my)
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Kunu is a popular drink made of either millet, sorghum or maize.
  Fura (food) is a popular drink, especially across northern Nigeria, made of cooked then pounded millet or sorghum with a little cow's milk.
  Palm wine, which may be distilled into ogogoro.
  Zobo(hibiscus leaf) is a drink made of roselle juice (the Yorubas call the white variety Isapa)
  Soya bean milk is a drink made from soaked, ground, and sieved soya bean.
caption: Zobo
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