🇳🇬 How to Make Efo Riro

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 500g efo shoko or spinach, chopped and blanched
• ½ cup palm oil
• 1 onion, sliced, plus 2 red bell peppers + 2 scotch bonnets blended and reduced
• 200g assorted beef, tripe or shaki, pre-boiled
• 150g smoked fish or ponmo
• 2 tbsp ground crayfish
• 1 tbsp locust bean (iru), optional but correct
• salt and a stock cube

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Blanch the greens 60 seconds, drain and SQUEEZE them dry. Wet greens water the whole pot down.
2. Reduce the blended pepper on the stove until thick — 10 min. Nigerian soups almost always start here.
3. Heat the palm oil, fry the sliced onion, add the iru and let it perfume the oil for a minute.
4. Add the reduced pepper and fry 8–10 min until the oil separates and floats on top.
5. Stir in the meats, fish and crayfish. Simmer 5 min so they take on the sauce.
6. Fold the greens in last and take it off the heat within 3 minutes. Efo riro should be a stew holding greens, not a pot of boiled vegetables.