Recipe: To Try At Home Vegetable soup (Efo riro)

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Vegetable soup (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.

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

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.

You can have Vegetable soup (Efo riro) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vegetable soup (Efo riro)

1. You need 1 of big bunch spinach.

2. It’s 200 g of fresh tomatoes.

3. You need 75 g of pepper.

4. You need 1/2 kg of beef.

5. It’s 2 of tblsp locust beans (iru).

6. Prepare 1/2 kg of kpomo.

7. Prepare of Small smoked fish.

8. You need 1/2 cup of palm oil.

9. You need 1 of ball onion.

10. Prepare 6 of stock cubes.

11. You need to taste of Salt.

12. Prepare of Water.

If you scroll down a little, you will find a deliciously made plate of efo riro, as served with fufu - it was delicious 😉 Efo riro is the soup for you , If you love a rich, tasty and flavorful soup. c'mon and excite your palate with this spicy soup.

Efo Riro soup recipe first appeared on this website a few years back and was a big favorite among our readers, who also poured in their happy feedbacks.

Even though the old recipe is good as it is, I have updated it a bit and I can tell you that this efo riro.

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

Vegetable soup (Efo riro) step by step

1. Wash beef and kpomo, season and cook till its soft..

2. Blend pepper, tomatoes and onion roughly..

3. Preheat a dry pot, add palm oil, allow to heat for few seconds, add onion, pepper and tomatoes. Allow to fry to remove sour taste then add iru. Allow to fry..

4. Add meat and kpomo mixture to the frying ingredients on fire. Add stock cubes and salt to taste and little water if necessary..

5. Wash vegetable before chopping, add salt and wash three times after chopping to remove any form of sand..

6. Boil some water, add the boiling water to the chopped vegetable, drain out the hot water after 3seconds, rinse with cold water immediately. Drain out the water thoroughly to avoid having excess water in your soup..

7. Add the steamed veggies to the mixture in the pot add you washed smoked fish at this point, allow to cook for some minutes..

8. Serve with any sallow..

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.

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

Efo means "Green leafy vegetable" or "spinach", and riro, means "to stir".