Brown smokied fish for breakfast let’s try😩

Fish for breakfast strikes some people as strange, which says more about imported breakfast habits than about the food. In coastal and riverine Nigeria it is ordinary, and it makes far more sense than sugar and white bread: protein first thing keeps hunger away for hours in a way refined carbohydrate simply does not.

Smoked fish suits the morning particularly well because the work is already done. It needs no defrosting, no long cooking, no marinade — warm it through with pepper and onion and it is ready in the time it takes the kettle to boil.

It is usually eaten with pap, yam, bread, or nothing at all.