Food Of the Ibo (Igbo) Sai
What did they eat? Yams Plantains Typical meals: soup or stew, and vegetables with meat Shrimp yam Shrimp content/uploads/2010/04/gulf.jpg Plantains ngnetwork.files.wordpre ss.com/2009/11/plantains -on-the-tree.jpg
Recipes Isu Dodo Chinchin Obe ata Iyan Obe Ata
Dodo-Fried Plantains 4 ripe plantains, peeled and sliced Vegetable oil, for frying Salt, for flavor Dodo
Chinchin 3 cups flour 1 cup butter 1 egg 1 teaspoons baking powder ½ cup water ½ cup milk Sugar Vegetable oil Chinchin
Staples Dodo Yams Kola nut Alligator pepper Maize Shrimp Alligator pepper ges/alligator_pepper.gif Kola nut ordpress.com/2009/11/kola-nut1.jpg
How was food gathered? The Igbo tribe gathers the fruit of the palm tree to use for palm oil. Palm trees in Africa 2C305CC &first=1&FORM=IDFRIR
How was food farmed? The Igbo economy depends on root-crop farming. Men clear the land and plant the yams Women plant other crops Root-crop farming 6B12CD44469AAD4EED2396C94A&first=1&FORM=IDFRIR
How was food hunted? Fish Shrimp The Igbo are primarily farmers so the only hunting they do is fishing. Shrimp 56E88F5F8C999DDE92&first=1&FORM=IDFRIR
Cooking Use Firewood and palm fruit waste Tripod Cooked by women Clay pots g content/uploads/2009/08/African-pot-cooking.gif
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