Recipe: Yummy Efo Riro (spinach Stew)

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Recipe: Yummy Efo Riro (spinach Stew) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Efo Riro (spinach Stew). Efo Riro - The African Stewed Spinach also popularly known as Efo riro is a one-pot stew with layers of flavor. It requires quite a number of ingredients but little work from the cook putting it all together (as long as you already have all your ingredients prepped). You can use fresh or frozen spinach.

Efo Riro: Nigerian Spinach Stew (Yoruba Vegetable Soup) This Nigerian spinach stew, also called vegetable soup and natively known as "Efo Riro" is guaranteed to be one of the most savory and delicious spinach recipes you will ever taste!

This African spinach stew is a Nigerian delicacy and is packed full with flavors.

Make a big pot of this efo riro, and have it with rice all week!.

You can cook Efo Riro (spinach Stew) using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Efo Riro (spinach Stew)

  1. Prepare 400 g of spinach.

  2. You need 1 kg of cow leg.

  3. It’s 500 g of fresh fish.

  4. Prepare of Dry fish.

  5. It’s 10 tbs of cray fish.

  6. You need 15 of big balls of fresh tomatoes.

  7. Prepare 20 of balls of red pepper.

  8. It’s 2 of large onion.

  9. Prepare of Locust beans.

  10. It’s of Palm oil.

As you may all know by now, my partner is Nigerian and loves traditional Yoruba dishes like no one else.

Nigerian Spinach Stew, commonly known as Efo Riro, is a delectable combination of spinach sauteed in palm oil and blended tomatoes and peppers and spiced with traditional ingredients like ground crayfish and iru (fermented locust beans).

This soup tastes as amazing as it looks.

You can make it with any protein of choice, or leave it out for a vegetarian option.

Efo Riro (spinach Stew) instructions

  1. Blend one onions with tomato and pepper. Chop the other onions.

  2. In a pot heat oil add onions and locust beans.

  3. Add the cow leg dry fish and fresh fish.

  4. Add the blended tomato mix and allow to cook star occasionally.

  5. Add Maggi salt and cray fish.

  6. Pour hot water on your spinach, drain the water off and add spinach to cooking stew stir for 3min.

  7. Add cow leg dry fish and fresh fish stair for 1min and add stock.

Efo Riro (Nigerian Spinach Stew) is one of the traditional stew associated with Yoruba people/culture but it is widely prepared by all/most of the tribes in Nigeria.

It is served at the parties, small gatherings, and most homes.

It is a very delicious meal if prepared correctly, it is made with different type of vegetables and proteins, I used.

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.

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