Efo Riro - Spinach Stew (+VIDEO)
Explore the rich cultural heritage of Nigeria with Efo Riro, a traditional Vegetable Soup made with fresh vegetables, meats, and spices.
Servings: 10
Calories: 213kcal
Equipment
- Pan
- Glass bowls
- Spatula
- Dish
Ingredients
for the pepper sauce
- 3 bell peppers
- 2 scotch bonnet
- 1 onion
- ½ cup water (optional)
for the vegetable soup
- 3 cups baby spinach (rinsed and sliced)
- 3 cups curly kale (rinsed and sliced)
- 4 tbsp palm oil
- blended pepper sauce (as stated above)
- 2 stock cubes (knorr chicken)
- ½ tsp curry powder (optional)
- 1 tsp mixed herbs (optional)
- 1 tsp locust beans (dried or fresh iru)
- 1 cup assorted liquid stock
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 each assorted meat (cooked and diced)
- 1 piece smoked turkey (deboned and diced)
- 1 piece stockfish chunks (chopped)
- ½ mackerel (boiled/smoked - chunks)
Instructions
Make the pepper sauce.
- Rinse and slice the bell pepper and scotch bonnets.
- Peel and chop the onion. Blend everything.
- It should be pulpy and not too smooth. Set it aside.
Cook the sauce.
- Heat palm oil in a pan over medium fire.
- Sautee the pepper sauce for 2 minutes.
- Season it with stock cubes, curry powder, mixed herbs, locust beans, and liquid stock.
- Leave it to cook for 10 minutes.
Incorporate the remaining meat and vegetables.
- Toss in the stockfish and cook for 5 minutes.
- Season it with sea salt.
- Incorporate the chopped assorted meat and smoked turkey and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add the rinsed kale or any vegetable of your choice and let it cook for 5 minutes.
- Add in the rinsed sliced spinach to steam as it cooks.
- Mix and coat the ingredients in the sauce.
- Add the boiled mackerel and cook for 2 minutes.
- Taste and season if needed.
- It is best served with swallow or solid like eba, fufu, amala, oat fufu, plantain fufu, banana fufu, white rice, ofada rice, agege bread, boiled yam, fried sweet plantains, fried green plantains, boiled plantains, fried yam, and more.
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Notes
- Use substitutes for the leafy greens and meats for a Nigerian Vegetable Soup, Efo Riro Stew of your own.
- If you don’t have locust beans, omit them from the recipe.