Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, efo riro (vegetable soup). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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! 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 (Vegetable soup) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Efo riro (Vegetable soup) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook efo riro (vegetable soup) using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Efo riro (Vegetable soup):
- Get 2 bunches shoko leaves
- Get 1/2 kilogramme of chicken
- Get 2 medium sized tomatoes
- Prepare 8 bell peppers (use the quantity you're comfortable with)
- Get 1 table spoon grounded crayfish
- Make ready 1 medium sized onion
- Take 2/3 cup palm oil
- Make ready smoked titus fish or any kind of fish you prefer
- Make ready pomo
- Take salt
- Prepare cubes seasoning
- Get locust bean
If these are not readily available where you live, leafy or frozen spinach is a very good substitute. 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 Vegetables: Plum (roma) tomatoes, red bell peppers, habanero peppers, and onions. Plum tomatoes are best for Nigerians stews because they are denser.
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!
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 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.
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