Recipe: At Home Efo Riro

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Recipe: At Home 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 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Efo Riro

  1. It’s of Green vegetable.

  2. Prepare of Red ball pepper.

  3. You need of Fish.

  4. Prepare of Stock fish.

  5. It’s of Pomo.

  6. You need of Salt.

  7. You need of Maggi.

  8. It’s of Onions.

  9. It’s of Red oil.

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. Get all ingredients ready. Pour red oil in the pot on the fire and let it heat up till viscosity is reduced.boil the meat,pomo and stockfish.

  2. Add the grounded pepper and onion let it fry add salt, stock cube and meat stock, let the meat stock do its work. Taste for salt..

  3. Add the meat and stockfish let it fry for 5mins.(I wash my green vegetable with hot water) add the vegetable to the combination and stir immediately till combine bring to simmer, put down, serve with desired meal..

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.