Yoruba people

=== Cuisine ===
{{main|Yoruba cuisine}}
Solid food, mostly cooked, pounded or prepared with hot water, are basic staple foods of the Yoruba. These foods are all by-products of crops like [[cassava]], yams, [[cocoyam]] and forms a huge chunk of it all. Others like [[Cooking bananas|Plantain]], corn, beans, meat, and fish are also chief choices.<ref name="Yoruba Cuisine">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIIOAQAAIAAJ|title=The Kudeti Book of Yoruba Cookery|last1=Mars|first1=J.A.|last2=Tooleyo|first2=E.M.|publisher=CSS|year=2003|isbn=978-978-2951-93-9}}</ref>

Some common Yoruba foods are iyan (pounded yam), [[Amala (food)|amala]], [[eba]], [[Semolina|semo]], [[fufu]],(Generally called."Okele"), [[moin moin]] (bean cake) and [[akara]].<ref name="understand" /> Soups include [[egusi]], [[Corchorus|ewedu]], [[Efo riro|Efo]], [[okra]], vegetables are also very common as part of the Yoruba diet. Items like rice and beans (locally called ewa) are also featured. Some dishes are prepared for festivities and ceremonies, such as [[jollof rice]] and fried rice. Other popular dishes are [[ekuru]], stews, corn, cassava and flours – e.g. maize, yam, plantain and beans, eggs, chicken, beef and assorted forms of meat (ponmo is made from cow skin). Some less well known meals and many miscellaneous staples are arrowroot gruel, sweetmeats, fritters and coconut concoctions; and some [[bread]]s – yeast bread, rock buns, and palm wine bread to name a few.<ref name="Yoruba Cuisine"/>

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File:Amala ati Ewedu and Ogunfe.png|[[Amala (food)|Amala]] is a Yoruba food.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXxBAAAAYAAJ&q=amala|title=A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language|author=Owen Emeric Vidal|publisher=Seeleys|date=1852|isbn=978-1-9765-8921-8}}</ref>
File:Beans Ball-Akara.jpg|[[Akara]] is a Yoruba bean fritter.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXxBAAAAYAAJ&q=akara|title=A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language|author=Owen Emeric Vidal|publisher=Seeleys|date=1852|isbn=978-1-9765-8921-8}}</ref>
File:Nigeria ofada.jpg|[[Ofada rice]] is a Yoruba dish.<ref name="Olusegun Obasanjo 1983">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdrSAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ofada%20rice%22|title=Management in Agriculture & Rural Development: A Practicioner's View|author=Olusegun Obasanjo|date=1983|publisher=ARMTI |isbn=978-978-2399-24-3}}</ref>
File:OfadaRice with assorted meat and egg.png|[[Ofada rice]] is traditionally in a leaf.<ref name="Olusegun Obasanjo 1983"/>
File:Moin Moin.jpg|[[Moin moin|Moin Moin]] is a Yoruba steamed bean pudding.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3r4Xx2059AC&q=%22moin+moin%22|title=Adimú: Gbogbó Tén'unjé Lukumí|author=Miguel Willie Ramos|publisher=Eleda.Org Publications|date=July 2012|isbn=978-1-877845-10-9}}</ref>
File:Delicacies in Yoruba land, Nigeria.jpg|A collection of foods eaten by Yorubas in general
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