Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, efo riro (vegetable soup). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Efo riro (vegetable soup) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Efo riro (vegetable soup) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you guys! Full written recipe for the vegetable soup (Efo riro). 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 ingredients prepped).
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 cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Efo riro (vegetable soup):
- Take Vegetable (I used the vegetable called shokoyokoto)
- Prepare 8 Scotch bonnet pepper
- Make ready 3 red bell pepper
- Get 2 medium sized smoked fish
- Get 2 medium sized dried fish
- Get 2 cooking spoon of both palm oil and g.nut oil
- Get 1 kg goat meat
- Prepare Spices
- Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Get to taste Salt
- Get 1/2 kg Ponmo
- Get 3 tbsp locust bean powder
- Get Water
- Take Ginger and garlic paste
- Make ready 3 tbsp crayfish (grinded)
Efo Riro needs no introduction as it's one of the most popular vegetable soups in Nigeria and an absolute favourite of the Yorubas. It's quite an easy dish to prepare, as long as you follow the major instructions and requirements. A major rule is; using tomatoes for Efo Riro is an absolute No No! Efo Riro is a Yoruba word and it loosely means 'stirred spinach'.
Instructions 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 ššš
- 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.
A major rule is; using tomatoes for Efo Riro is an absolute No No! Efo Riro is a Yoruba word and it loosely means 'stirred spinach'. In Nigeria, the vegetables used for Efo How to make Efo Riro. Start by cooking whatever meat you decide to use. I prepared my goat meat Okro Soup (African Okra Soup).
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