Cook's Guide to Groundnut Delicacies: Favorite Recipes from Northern Nigeria

• Main Authors: Vabi, M B, Ajeigbe, H A, Diama, A, Affognon, H D
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: ICRISAT 2018
• Subjects: Smart Foods; Nigeria; Groundnut; Food and Nutrition; Africa; Legume Crops; The Pointers
• Online Access: http://oar.icrisat.org/10931/; http://oar.icrisat.org/10931/1/ICRiSAT.pdf

Groundnut is an important crop for improving the health and nutrition of smallholders in many countries of West and Central (WCA). It is cheaper and more widely available than other locally available sources of protein. Apart from being an important element of regular dishes, groundnut can also be used to prepare Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTFs) to manage severe malnutrition among internally displaced persons (IDPs). This Cook's Guide to Groundnut Delicacies: Favorite Delicacies from Northern Nigeria is one of the pointers of the commitment of ICRISAT to contribute to the reconstruction of the previous groundnut pyramids in different ways. Today, groundnut pyramids should create jobs, expand market opportunities, enhance the processing of groundnut and encourage the systematic consumption of healthy groundnut and groundnut-based products. This is why adopting a market-oriented approach to boost groundnut production in countries of WCA also requires sustained awareness-creation campaigns for its consumption. It covers most of the popular recipes in Nigeria and should therefore help household and women to uncover options for including groundnut and groundnut-based products into their daily meals and opportunities for generating cash incomes. Professionally, the guide should constitute a handy reference material for field-based development workers of the Agricultural Development Authorities (ADPs), Civil Society Organization (CSOs) and Communitybased Groups. A majority of field-based agents, particularly those of the Women in Agriculture (WIA) teams of the ADPs in Nigeria, will find this guide a valuable reference material and companion. Indeed, this reference guide also raises awareness on the fact that addressing nutrition requires taking actions at all stages of commodity value chains - from production, processing, retail to consumption. I congratulate the authors of this guide for putting together feasible recipes for groundnut into a single reference guide, and urge colleagues of the ICRISAT, WCA hub to adapt and/or develop similar guides for other ICRISAT mandate crops of the region.