Top mouthwatering foods to serve guests in a typical Igbo traditional wedding

Nigerians love food a lot. We also cherish our cultural heritage, and one of the best ways to display them is through traditional marriage ceremonies.

If you are planning to hold a typical Igbo traditional wedding and you don’t have any of these foods on your menu then you have to think again.

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The Igbo people are socially and culturally unique, blessed with rich and nutritious food. The purpose of this list is to give you an idea of what is expected of you, especially in the area of food. This will also help you on menu budgeting for a dream Igbo wedding.

Starters

Garden egg, groundnut, Kolanut, Abacha with Ugba and Nkwobi.

Main dishes

– Oha soup and fufu: 

Ingredients include Oha leaf, water, palm oil, seasoning and salt, water pepper, onion, thickener e.g. achi. Crayfish, smoked fish, big stock fish, bush meat, assorted meat, kpomo etc.

– Bitter leaf soup (ofe onugbu):

This soup is eaten with fufu, pounded yam, eba. Ingredients include Cocoyam, bitter leaf, palm oil, assorted meat, seasoning/salt, fresh fish, stock fish, pepper, etc.

– Egusi and ogbona soup

– Rice: Jollof rice, fried rice and all other types of rice dishes are served in every traditional wedding in Nigeria aside the major traditional dishes of the tribe.

So, to sum up, with these mouth-watering dishes, you are sure to have a perfect Igbo traditional wedding!

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