Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, efo riro (vegetable soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Efo riro (vegetable soup) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Efo riro (vegetable soup) is something that I have loved my entire life.
Cook With Me: Nigerian Vegetable Soup With Fresh ugu And Water Leaf Efo riro as this vegetable soup is natively called in Yoruba literally translates to 'vegetable stir ' (where 'efo' translates to This Nigerian spinach stew, also called vegetable soup and natively known as "Efo Riro" is guaranteed to be one of the most savory and delicious spinach recipes you will ever taste! Efo Riro is a very popular Yoruba soup in Nigeria, it is one of my favorite Nigerian soups because of its health benefits. The name 'efo' means vegetables, hence it is a Yoruba rich vegetable soup.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have efo riro (vegetable soup) using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Efo riro (vegetable soup):
- Prepare Vegetable (I used the vegetable called shokoyokoto)
- Prepare 8 Scotch bonnet pepper
- Prepare 3 red bell pepper
- Prepare 2 medium sized smoked fish
- Make ready 2 medium sized dried fish
- Take 2 cooking spoon of both palm oil and g.nut oil
- Take 1 kg goat meat
- Get Spices
- Get 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 kg Ponmo
- Take 3 tbsp locust bean powder
- Take Water
- Prepare Ginger and garlic paste
- Get 3 tbsp crayfish (grinded)
Efo Riro - The African Stewed Spinach also popularly known as Efo riro is a one-pot stew with layers of flavor. It requires quite a number of ingredients So basically, Efo riro simply means "stirred leafy vegetable". However, we just don't stir this by itself, we stir it in a rich pepper sauce which is loaded. Today I made Efo Riro which is one of my favorite vegetable soups. "Efo riro" is a Yoruba word which simply means "Vegetable soup" and it's enjoyed by many.
Steps to make Efo riro (vegetable soup):
- Get all ingredients ready, cleaned and handy
- ChoppcWash the goat meat, season with spices, garlic and ginger paste, onion and salt, and bring to boil. While cooking, add the Ponmo and dried fish(already cleaned with salt and hot water, deboned).
- While the meat is boiling, roughly pound or blend the peppers (scotch bonnet, red bell pepper, black pepper, onion, garlic and ginger).
- Chop the vegetable but not thinly sliced, wash and steam lightly with little salt for 2-3minutes
- By now the meat is completely cooked, bring down and drain the stock, keep aside.
- Put clean pot on fire, add the cooking oils, when hot (not bleach), add chopped onions fry until translucent then pour in the blended peppers, allow to fry stirring occasionally to avoid burning. Add the meat/fish stock, boil and add in the meat, fish and ponmo, stir. Allow to cook for 5 minutes, at this point, add in the already deboned smoked fish and crayfish. Taste and adjust if necessary.
- Add the steamed vegetable and stir gently in order not to make the fish chunks to become mashed. Allow to simmer for 1minute and bring down. Enjoy 😋😋😋
- Can be eaten with swallow of choice, rice, boiled yam or potatoes. I did enjoyed mine with correct eba and the leftover with boiled white rice.
However, we just don't stir this by itself, we stir it in a rich pepper sauce which is loaded. Today I made Efo Riro which is one of my favorite vegetable soups. "Efo riro" is a Yoruba word which simply means "Vegetable soup" and it's enjoyed by many. This is because it's really versatile and could be eaten with meals such as Rice, Yam and any type of Swallow. When I got to the market to buy the. Efo Riro needs no introduction as it's one of the most popular vegetable soups in Nigeria and an absolute favourite of the Yorubas.
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