suya
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Suya, also known as Tsire, is a traditional Hausa (Nigerian) smoke-grilled spiced meat on skewer. Suya is generally made with thin-sliced spiced beef, lamb, goat, ram, or chicken arranged on wooden skewers. Organ meats such as kidney, liver and tripe as well as other types of meats and seafood (shrimp) are also sometimes used. Suya is most popular as evening street food or snack, restaurant appetizer, and as accompaniment with drinks at bars and night spots.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Suya
- Food.image
- File:SuyavarietiesTX.JPG
- Food.country
- Nigeria
- Food.region
- Northern Nigeria
- Food.year
- 1852
- Food.main_ingredient
- Meat, chicken, shrimp
- Food.variations
- (Kilishi, Balangu)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dish
- Subclass of
- meat dish
- Part of
- Cameroonian cuisine
- Country
- Nigeria
- Country of origin
- Nigeria
- Material used
- chicken
- Image
- Suya with pepper sauce.jpg
- Has use
- eating
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- fabrication method
- roasting
- Commons category
- Suya
- indigenous to
- Hausa people
- location of creation
- Northern Region
- cuisine
- Nigerian cuisine
- partially coincident with
- satay
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Ingredients
- Equipment
- Optional ingredients
- How to prepare Tsire (suya)
- See also
- References
- External links
Suya, also known as Tsire, is a traditional Hausa (Nigerian) smoke-grilled spiced meat on skewer. Suya is generally made with thin-sliced spiced beef, lamb, goat, ram, or chicken arranged on wooden skewers. Organ meats such as kidney, liver and tripe as well as other types of meats and seafood (shrimp) are also sometimes used. Suya is most popular as evening street food or snack, restaurant appetizer, and as accompaniment with drinks at bars and night spots.
Suya meat is thinly sliced and then marinated in a traditional Hausa spice mix called 'Yaji' which consists of dry hot chili & cayenne peppers, ginger, dried onion, ground peanut cake ('Kuli-Kuli'), salt and other spices. The skewered meats are doused with vegetable oil before they are cooked on the grill.
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