Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, vegetable soup (efo riro). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Efo Riro: Nigerian Spinach Stew (Yoruba Vegetable Soup). 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! I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you guys!
Vegetable soup (Efo riro) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Vegetable soup (Efo riro) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetable soup (efo riro) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetable soup (Efo riro):
- Take 1 big bunch spinach
- Prepare 200 g fresh tomatoes
- Get 75 g pepper
- Make ready 1/2 kg beef
- Take 2 tblsp locust beans (iru)
- Take 1/2 kg kpomo
- Prepare Small smoked fish
- Take 1/2 cup palm oil
- Get 1 ball onion
- Prepare 6 stock cubes
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare Water
The vegetables that can be used to cook this soup are Efo Shoko or Efo Tete (Green Amaranth). If these are not readily available where you live, leafy or frozen spinach is a very good substitute. 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 but little work from the cook putting it all together (as long as you already have all your So basically, Efo riro simply means "stirred leafy vegetable".
Instructions to make Vegetable soup (Efo riro):
- Wash beef and kpomo, season and cook till it's soft.
- Blend pepper, tomatoes and onion roughly.
- Preheat a dry pot, add palm oil, allow to heat for few seconds, add onion, pepper and tomatoes. Allow to fry to remove sour taste then add iru. Allow to fry.
- Add meat and kpomo mixture to the frying ingredients on fire. Add stock cubes and salt to taste and little water if necessary.
- Wash vegetable before chopping, add salt and wash three times after chopping to remove any form of sand.
- Boil some water, add the boiling water to the chopped vegetable, drain out the hot water after 3seconds, rinse with cold water immediately. Drain out the water thoroughly to avoid having excess water in your soup.
- Add the steamed veggies to the mixture in the pot add you washed smoked fish at this point, allow to cook for some minutes.
- Serve with any sallow.
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 You can see the video for preparing efo riro below! You can also go ahead and read up other articles about Yoruba foods. this soup is just one of. Efo Riro is a Yoruba word and it loosely means 'stirred spinach'. In Nigeria, the vegetables used for Efo Riro are 'Efo Shoko' (Lagos spinach) or 'Efo Tete' (African spinach).
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