Suya

Nigerian Spicy Kebabs

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Recipes from Brixton Village

By Miss South

Published 2014

  • About

Pretty much every cuisine has a version of meat on a stick, allowing meat to be cooked quickly and to have huge amounts of flavour added to it. West African cuisine is no exception: Nigerians know it as suya and Ghanaians call it chichinga.

Here, thinly sliced meat is threaded onto skewers, rubbed with a spice mix called tankora (which generally includes chilli powder, cayenne pepper, white pepper, ground cloves, mace, ginger and ground peanuts) before being gri