How to Royal Tasty Efo Riro

How to Royal Tasty Efo Riro Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Efo Riro. 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.

Efo Riro means mixed Vegetables, it is from the Western part of Nigeria and the Calabar's has a similar soup called "Edikaikong Soup".

Efo Riro is enjoyed by many, you can also use various option of Leaf such as Shokoyokoto Efotete "green amaranth" popularly known as Green e.t.c.

Efo Riro is a Yoruba word and it loosely means 'stirred spinach'.

You can have Efo Riro using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Efo Riro

1. You need 2 bunch of vegetable.

2. Prepare of Meat.

3. You need of Vegetable oil.

4. Prepare of Dry fish.

5. Prepare 4 of tomatoes.

6. Prepare of Big onions.

7. You need 10 of Scotch bonnet.

8. It’s 10 of Red bell pepper.

9. You need cube of Bullion.

10. Prepare of Salt.

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 very popular Yoruba soup in Nigeria, it is one of my favorite Nigerian soups because of its health benefits.

Efo Riro step by step

1. Slice the leaves up and pour hot water over it..

2. Rinse it off with cold water and set aside. Cook your meat, ponmo and dry fish till tender set that aside too. in a pot heat up some vegetable oil fry the locust beans for like 3min add blended pepper tomatoes and onions into it. Add your washed dry fish..

3. Pour in your cooked meat and ponmo wt the stock. when the tomato is well fried add your vegetable stir together leave to cook for about 3minutes and its ready serve with rice,yam, or swallow of choice..

The name 'efo' means vegetables, hence it is a Yoruba rich vegetable soup.

Believe me when I tell you that this happens to be one of the most delicious Yoruba soups that I have made.

Nigerian Efo Riro Recipe You know that 'efo' situation where the efo sits on one side of the bowl and the water migrates to the other side? that isn't efo riro, If efo Efo riro cannot be rushed, in fact, the longer you allow the stew and spinach to simmer the better it will taste.

Additionally, do not shy away from adding broth or water to your stew.

The added liquid allows the flavors to marry.