How to pronounce Kilishi

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kiliʃi/. In plain English letters that is kee-LEE-shee, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Kilishi?

Kilishi is a snack of Nigeria. Where it comes from: North (Hausa-Fulani). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are beef and nuts & seeds. It tastes spicy and smoky.

Where Kilishi comes from

Kilishi is one of 26 signature dishes of Nigeria on this map.

• Suya · Street food · Northern Nigeria

  Suya is thin-sliced beef or other meat threaded on skewers, coated with yaji, a spice mix of ground peanut, chilli, ginger and other spices, and grilled over an open fire.

• Jollof rice jollof · Rice dish · West Africa

  Jollof is rice cooked in one pot in a tomato, pepper and onion stew until it absorbs all the flavour, often with a smoky layer at the bottom.

• Egusi soup ọbẹ̀ ẹ̀gúsí · Soup & stew · Southern Nigeria

  Egusi soup is thickened with ground melon seeds, which turn creamy and slightly nutty as they cook.

• Amala Àmàlà · Main dish · South-West (Yoruba)

  Àmàlà is a staple swallow of the Yoruba of south-western Nigeria: a smooth, stiff paste stirred from flour, eaten by pinching off a piece with the fingers and using it to scoop up soup.

• Efo riro Ẹ̀fọ́ rírò · Soup & stew · South-West (Yoruba)

  Efo riro is a rich vegetable soup of the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria and the wider Yorubaland.

• Moin moin Mọ́ínmọ́ín · Snack · South-West (Yoruba)

  Moin moin, also written moi moi, is a steamed or boiled bean pudding of the Yoruba, known in some Yoruba dialects as ọ̀lẹ̀lẹ̀ or àlẹ̀lẹ̀.

Food of Nigeria

Dishes like Kilishi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Kilishi:

• Quanta ቋንጣ · Snack · Ethiopia

  Quanta, also spelled quwanta, is Ethiopian dried beef, an air-dried jerky made with traditional spices.

• Zlatibor pršuta златиборска пршута · Snack · Western Serbia (Zlatibor), Serbia

  Zlatiborska pršuta, also known as Užice pršuta, is one of the national specialities of the Zlatibor area in western Serbia, a dried and smoked meat.

• Lukanka луканка · Snack · Central Bulgaria, Bulgaria

  Lukanka is a semi-dried Bulgarian salami with a flattened shape, a brownish-red grainy inside and a skin usually covered in white mould.

• Pastırma · Snack · Kayseri, Türkiye

  Pastırma is beef, cured with salt, pressed to squeeze out water and air-dried, then covered with a thick paste of fenugreek, garlic, red pepper and cumin called çemen, and dried again.