Creative Sunday// How I prepare this Vegetable soup

It is a wonderful Sunday, I welcome you all to my blog and I wish us all a happy Easter, this is another creative Sunday and I will be sharing with us how I prepare this Vegetable soup which the Yorubas call EFO RIRO efo riro is mostly common among the Yorubas tribe of Nigeria, this soup goes with anything, but majorly I love to pair it with swallow and it always goes well with it but most people love it with rice depending on your preference. One good thing about this soup is that it is very affordable, it does not need to spend a fortune before you can prepare this soup.

INGREDIENTS USED
💗Ugwu leaves
💗Pepper
💗Tomatoes
💗Onions
💗Seasoning cubes
💗Crayfish
💗Fish
💗Ponmo (cowskin)
💗Locust beans
💗Red oil

Like I said this soup is very affordable and I will be showing you some of the ingredients.

This is the ugwu it is not expensive and very very affordable, and it is very healthy.

This is my fresh tomatoes

This is my Scotch bonnet pepper

Step 1️⃣
First I love to prepare all my ingredients before I start with my cooking, I prep the vegetables, cut them into slices, wash peppers and tomatoes with onions then blend them using my manual blender, whenever I am preparing this soup I love to chop the pepper I do not like when the pepper is so smooth, I love to be seeing traces of pepper in it that is why it is called efo riro.

I love to use salt and wash my crayfish as I showed in the video, to get rid of the dirt all the dirt will settle under the plastic then I can filter it out, I used the process then wash my crayfish thoroughly and set it aside because I blend it with my pepper mixture.

STEP 2️⃣
The next step is to boil my water and use the hot water to wash my vegetables, this process is optional but that is how I love to wash my vegetables since I got them from the market and I do not know how they were planted maybe it is by fertilizer, but if you are plucking the vegetable in your garden then there will be no need to wash with hot water or if you are sure of how the vegetable is planted.

STEP 3️⃣
The next step is getting my pot ready and starting work since I have prepped all my ingredients and set them aside, in my clean pot I added my red oil and allow it to heat up for some seconds, I then go in with my locust beans, leave it to fry for some minutes then I added onions to it and allow to fry together at this point people will know something is happening, after that I added the cowskin as well before adding my pepper mixed, I leave it for some minutes to fry and then add my seasoning cubes with salt and added little water into it for it to cook.

STEP4️⃣
After the above processes I introduced my fish to the sauce left it to cook and released its juice into the soup, after cooking I removed the fish in order not to scatter inside the sauce and set it aside, I tasted for salt and everything was perfect then I bring my washed Vegetable then sprinkled it inside the sauce and it became soup, I mixed thoroughly so that it will bind well with each other, leave it for some seconds on low heat, there is no need to cover it. Then our efo riro is ready to serve.

I moved to prepare my perfect swallow for this soup which is Semovita, I showed my method of preparing this swallow in the video.

Thank you all for watching my video, I love you all and happy Easter once again.