HOW TO MAKE SUMPTUOUS NIGERIAN EFO RIRO PACKED WITH FLAVOR WITH UGU LEAVES AND WATERLEAF

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In this post I will be sharing with you how to make a sumptuous Nigerian vegetable soup (efo riro). This soup is a combination of quite a number of ingredients, however there are some of them that you must put in the right quantity if you want your soup to be perfect. These include palm oil, locust beans and/or okpei. Also, it is important to also note that if you want your vegetable soup (efo riro) to be fresh and greeny you must not overcook it.

Well, spinach is commonly used to prepare this soup but in this recipe I will be using a combination of ugu leaves and waterleaf.

Let's begin the process of making our pot filled with beauty, efo riro

Ingredients

• 4 - 5 scotch bonnet pepper
  

• Ugu leaves (fluted pumpkin)

• Waterleaf

• 2 medium onions
  

• 1 ginger

• Locust beans

• Okpei
  

• 3 seasoning cubes

• Beef

• Ponmo (cow skin)
  

• Smoked fish
  

• ¾ cup Palm oil

• Salt

Step by Step

• Start by washing your scotch bonnet peppers, onions and ginger.
  

• Place them in your blender and blend with your locust beans, okpei and crayfish.

• In a pot, add your beef and ponmo, add seasoning cubes, salt, curry and thyme and boil until they are tender.
  

• Next, pour your blended pepper mix into the pot filled with the beef and ponmo, allow it to cook together for about 15 minutes on medium heat.

• Add more seasoning cubes, and salt if needed.
  

• Now, add your deboned smoked fish into yhe pot and pour some palm oil
  
  and stir all together.

• When the palm oil have completely integrated with the pepper mix, add your chopped ugu leaves and allow them to cook for about 2 minutes on low heat.
  

• The ugu leaves are a bit stronger than thr waterleaf, that's one of the reasons we introduced it first into the pot.

• Next, add your waterleaf and stir together.
  

• If your soup was thick before now, the introduction of the waterleaf will loosen up the soup because it has a lot of water composition.
  

• Allow all to simmer for about 5 minutes under low heat and take off the heat.

• Your efo riro soup is ready.

Efo riro can be enjoyed with either pounded yam, eba, amala, akpu, rice, boiled yam and so on.

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