Recipe: Perfect Eforiro(Spinach soup)

Recipe: Perfect Eforiro(Spinach soup) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Eforiro(Spinach soup). To make a good Efo Riro (stewed Spinach): Get all your ingredients together: The boiled Meat, Fish, Turkey, Chicken or any other choice of protein. Heat up the Oil: I like to heat up my Oil a bit. I'm not a fan of bleaching palm Oil so I simply add the Onion once the Oil is hot and while the Onion is cooking in the Oil, the palm oil too is cooking.

If these are not readily available where you live, leafy or frozen spinach is a very good substitute.

This Nigerian spinach stew also called vegetable soup and locally known as 'Efo Riro' (pronounced 'eh-faw ree-roh') is guaranteed to be one of the most savory and delicious spinach recipes you will ever taste.

This Nigerian dish is not your typical spinach stew, because it comes packed with a major wallop of flavor.

You can cook Eforiro(Spinach soup) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Eforiro(Spinach soup)

1. You need of Spinach.

2. You need 100 g of Stock fish.

3. Prepare 2 of tablespn hot pepper.

4. You need 100 of miles fresh tomatoes.

5. Prepare of Cow skin(cut in cubes).

6. Prepare 100 g of crayfish.

7. You need 1 cup of palm oil.

8. You need 1 of bulb Onions.

9. You need 1/2 of wrap locust beans(Eru).

10. You need of Seasonings.

11. It’s to taste of Salt.

This stew has turned a former spinach-hating kid into a Spinach Loving Queen.

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).

Nigerian Spinach Stew : How To Cook Efo Riro NneO This delicious west African stew is made with tomato, red bell pepper (tatashe), onion, fermented locust bean (Okpei) crayfish, onion, and many other ingredients.

Eforiro(Spinach soup) step by step

1. Clean,wash and cut kpomo,stockfish season and boil till tender in small quantity of water.

2. Pound crayfish,blend tomatoes and pepper,chopped onions and set aside.

3. Place a pot on fire,add palm oil and allow to heat up,add chopped onions and allow to sweat,add blended pepper,stir and allow to cook.

4. Pour in d cooked kpomo and stockfish,crayfish and allow to cook well,add in Eru and correct seasonings.

5. Wash,shread and blanch d spinach in boiled water with little salt,re-fresh spinach and pour in colander to drain water.

6. Add spinach to d sauce,stir and allow to cook for 3-2 minutes, correct seasonings and serve with semo,Amala,pounded yam or Tuwon shinkafa as I just did…..enjoy.

This soup is healthy, tasty and easy to put together.

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Tips for the best result in cooking Efo recipe use enough palm oil, although some prefer cooking Efo riro with vegetable oil, while some because of certain health conditions don't use oil at all.

Hence they make Efo riro without palm oil.

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.