Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, efo riro (vegetable soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Efo riro (Vegetable soup) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Efo riro (Vegetable soup) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have efo riro (vegetable soup) using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Efo riro (Vegetable soup):
- Get 2 bunches shoko leaves
- Make ready 1/2 kilogramme of chicken
- Take 2 medium sized tomatoes
- Take 8 bell peppers (use the quantity you're comfortable with)
- Take 1 table spoon grounded crayfish
- Make ready 1 medium sized onion
- Make ready 2/3 cup palm oil
- Get smoked titus fish or any kind of fish you prefer
- Take pomo
- Take salt
- Get cubes seasoning
- Get locust bean
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.
Instructions to make Efo riro (Vegetable soup):
- Wash your chicken, tomatoes, pepper, onion, pomo, deboned smoked fish, skoko leaves and rinse your locust beans in case it has sand in it
- Blend the tomatoes and peppers separately. The tomatoes should be smoothly blended but not the peppers. Set aside.
- Dice the pomo and onions. Set aside
- Slice the shoko leaves, put in a bowl then pour some hot water into it. Leave for 5 minutes before rinsing it out with cold water. Ensure you squeeze out all the excess water in it. Set aside.
- Cook your chicken. Season with salt, pepper, onion and seasoning cubes. When it is cooked, bring the chicken out of the stock, pour out some of the stock which you'the use for cooking and use the rest of it to cook your pomo.
- Place another pot on the cooker, pour in your palm oil. Allow to heat up for a few seconds. Season your oil with salt and seasoning cube, add your diced onions. Allow to cook for 30 seconds.
- Pour in your blended pepper. Allow to cook for a little while. Add your blended tomatoes, grounded crayfish and locust bean. Allow to cook until almost dry.
- Add your chicken stock, pomo and chicken. Taste to know if there's need to add salt or seasoning. When this sauce is dried i.e there's no visible water in it.
- Add your shoko leaves and stir properly.
- Finally, add your smoked fish and stir gently. Food is ready!
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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