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Hausa cuisines are traditional and modern food prepared by Hausa people. It is based on the availability of raw food materials they can farm or provide from other places. Most times Hausa people depend purely on the farm products they have cultivated for food preparations. while koko is a porridge and a traditional hausa food made from millet, maize, guinea corn and tiger nut with a small amount of additives that are added to make it nourish. Koko is of different varieties to Hausa food preparations, there are the following types of Koko:

  • Koko: It is made from a liquefaction liquid obtain from a grinded millet.
  • Kunun tsamiya: made from a powdered millet
  • Kunun gyada: made from liquefaction of Groundnut with a boiled raize added inside
  • Kunun dawa: made from guinea corn
  • Kunun acha: made from ache
  • Kunun masara: made from maize
  • Kunun aya: a drink made from a tiger nut, similar to tiger milk.
  • Kunun kanwa: made from millet, but entirely different from kunun tsamiya
  • Waina or Masa:
  • Coffee and bread: In the modern days, hausa people take coffee and bread as breakfast. It was not part of their tradition but it was adopted as a result of the British colonisation


Lunch

  • Dambu
  • Dan wake: these are Beans Dumplings prepared by boiling, eaten either with palm oil or groundnut oil with a fine grinded pepper
  • Fate
  • Taliya
  • Shinkafa
  • Alale in Hausa

Dinner

  • Tuwo: made from flour of maize, millet or guinea corn, a thick pudding usually eaten with different kinds of soup, usually, Miyan kuka is the common soup made from a powdered dried baobab leaves that has been ground into powder, it is dark in color. Followed by Okro soup (dried and fresh soups ), taushe, miyan kubewa and others.
  • Shinkafa:
  • Funkaso:

Beverages and drinks

Sobo: a natural drink made from a dry zobo flower (roselle plant)

Snacks

Kuli Kuli

Chin chin

Alkaki: (doughnuts) made from wheat and sugar paste

Gallery

  • Hausa Food Dan wake 02

    Dan wake made from bean

  • Hausa Food Dan wake 01

    Dan wake with groundnut oil and pepper

  • Hausa Food Dan wake

    Dan wake with palm oil and pepper

  • Hausa Food Fanke

    Fanke made from wheat flour

  • Tuwon shinkafa miyan taushe

    Tuwo and taushe soup

  • Shinkafa dafa duka

    Jullof rice and beans

  • Moin Moin

    Alale

  • Acaraje-Baiana

    Kosai

  • Hausa Food Kosai

    Kosai

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