Easiest Way to Vegan Delicious Efo riro(vegetable soup)

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Efo riro(vegetable soup). 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.

If you scroll down a little, you will find a deliciously made plate of efo riro, as served with fufu - it was delicious 😉 Spice up your lunch or dinner with this delectable vegetable soup (efo riro).

So refreshing, easy-to-cook and packed with assorted nutritious vegetables that are highly essential for the well-being of your body.

Give the recipe a try and you will be glad you did.

You can have Efo riro(vegetable soup) using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Efo riro(vegetable soup)

1. It’s 6 pieces of Meat.

2. You need 2 of maggi cubes.

3. It’s 1 of big onion.

4. Prepare of Salt.

5. Prepare 3 pieces of fresh pepper.

6. You need of Sliced spinach.

7. You need Handful of locust bean.

8. You need of crayfish.

9. It’s of Palm oil,.

10. It’s of Tete leaf(spinach).

Efo riro (vegetable soup) is also excellent with rice, agidi / eko (corn paste pudding), yam, plantain etc.

It is a very versatile soup just like most Nigerian vegetable soups, like the Nigerian vegetable soup, Edikang ikong, Afang etc, they can be eaten with a variety of other dishes.

Efo Riro is a traditional Vegetable Soup of the Yoruba Tribe in Nigeria.

It is well known for its savory taste and richness.

Efo riro(vegetable soup) instructions

1. Boil meat.

2. Fry your palm oil with onion, crayfish,locust bean, pepper, salt,maggi.for at least 5minutes..

3. Pour in sliced and washed vegetable and meat in the fried ingredients and allow to steam for 5 minutes.

It is actually the Yoruba version of the Efik's Edikang Ikong Soup, but with a big twist ☺.

Efo riro as this vegetable soup is natively called in Yoruba literally translates to 'vegetable stir ' (where 'efo' translates to 'vegetable' and 'riro' translates to 'stir') and is indicative of how this soup is traditionally made.

While it is natively called a vegetable soup, the style of preparation has more in common.

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).