Recipe: Appetizing Efo riro

Recipe: Appetizing 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 cook Efo riro using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Efo riro

1. You need 8 of Habanero pepper.

2. You need 2 of onion.

3. Prepare 3 of Doyin cubes.

4. Prepare 4 of medium snail.

5. Prepare Bunch of Shoko leaves.

6. You need 2 of Dry fish.

7. It’s 2 of Pomo.

8. You need of Grounded crayfish.

9. It’s of Salt.

10. Prepare of Palm oil.

11. It’s of Salt.

12. You need 8 pieces of Beef.

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. Wash and season meat with doyin cube and salt,boil till tender put aside..

2. Wash and season snail with salt,cook till tender put aside..

3. Grate habanero pepper with onion..

4. Put a pot on cooker,add palm oil,add chopped onion then add grated habanero pepper and fry,add the last Doyin cube with little salt and continue frying,when the oil separates from the pepper,add dry fish,grounded cray fish and chopped pomo,stir together,after 3 minutes,add cooked beef and snail stir and cook for another 3 minutes..

5. Finally add washed shoko and stir together, cook for another 5 minutes done..

6. Adjust taste with salt if necessary..

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 is one of the popular vegetable soups in Nigerian.

It ranks with the likes of Afang and Edikang ikong.

While Efo riro is native to the Yorubas, Edikang ikong is native to the Efiks and Ibibios.