Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, efo riro. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Efo Riro is a rich vegetable soup that is native to the Yorubas of Western Nigeria. 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. Nigerian Efo Riro Recipe [Video] Efo Riro - The African Stewed Spinach also popularly known as Efo riro is a one-pot stew with layers of flavor.
Efo riro is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Efo riro is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook efo riro using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Efo riro:
- Make ready Shoko (I dunno if it is called spinach or something else but that is what we call it)
- Take 5 Pepper mix (tasashe/red bell and 5 pepper scotch bonnet)
- Get 1 large Onions
- Get 1 cksp Palm oil
- Make ready 1 tbsp Iru woro (locust beans)
- Make ready 2 cups Smoked fish
- Get 2 cups Beef
- Take 1 1/2 Offals
- Make ready 2 cups Pomo (cow hide)
- Make ready to taste Salt
Believe me when I tell you that this happens to be one of the most delicious Yoruba soups that I have made. 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). These are the local spinach varieties that are very popular and easily available.
Steps to make Efo riro:
- Pick and wash the shoko. Then chop it. This vegetable has lots of water so you have to blanch it either with hot and cold water or wilt it without water by heating up a pot or pan and stirfrying the vegetables till it wilts and the water dries up. This method retains the green color and crunchiness of the vegetable.
- Boil and season the meats to your taste.
- Boil the roughly blended pepper
- After about 5-8mins of cooking and allowing the meats soak in enough pepper juice now add your blanched vegetables and stir in properly. Cover the pot and allow to simmer for 2mins on low heat so the vegetable doesn't over cook. And your Almighty eforiro is ready to be served.
- Heat up the palmoil in a pot, slightly fry the chopped onions and Iru. Then add the pepper. Allow to cook for some minutes before adding the boiled meats and smoked fish.
In Nigeria, the vegetables used for Efo Riro are 'Efo Shoko' (Lagos spinach) or 'Efo Tete' (African spinach). These are the local spinach varieties that are very popular and easily available. In other parts of the world, any spinach greens will do. Efo riro is a Yoruba soup made with green leafy vegetables like spinach, ugu, kale, greens and the likes. This is one of my favourite soup and i don't get tired of eating it.
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