Creative Sunday: preparing semovita, efo riro and chicken sauce

Good day everyone! It is another Sunday, which means another creative Sunday section in the hive learners community. Today I'll be showing my cooking aspect with y'all, which means today's creative Sunday will pave the way for chef Vickoly. Hehehe. Today I'll be taking you through the process of how I prepared an efo riro and semovita, a delicacy popular among Nigerians, or mostly the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria.

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Since I stay alone, I've always been the one who prepares my own meal since I don't enjoy eating out or buying already prepared meals at restaurants, but I've mostly been too busy to create time to capture the procedures of how I prepared those meals. Well,  last week I decided I must capture this recipe, and the ingredients and process are listed below.

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INGREDIENTS

Below are the ingredients I used frying, and as well preparing both the stew and the efo riro.

• Tomatoes
• Pepper
• Onions
• Iru(locust beans)
• Maggi
• Salt
• Palm oil
• Chicken
• Titus fish
• Efo shoko (vegetables)
• Semovita
• Groundnut oil ...

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PREPARATION PROCEDURE

• After purchasing all of the ingredients, I washed of the pepper and tomatoes, added Some onions to it and blender it.

• I placed the blender pepper aside, then wash my chicken and fish with water, after which I pour groundnut oil into the pot and added a onions into it.(the purpose of the onion is to prevent the oil from sprinkling around due to it being to hot and it's a hack I learnt while following chef few years ago). So I put the chicken and fish inside the oil one after the other for it to fry perfectly to my taste.

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• To prepare the stew, I first pour in my palm oil. After Which I added the pepper, some water and let it boil for some minutes.

• After few minutes, I added the fried chicken and fish, then I also added the seasoning such as Maggi and salt, I pour small amount of water and let everything boil together again for some minutes till the soup was perfect.

• For the efo riro (vegetables soup), I cut the vegetables into a tiny pieces, pour boil some water and pour it on the vegetables in other to make it much soft and was well wash of some gems that could be on it.

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After that I pour some palm oil into my new pot for meant for the vegetables soup, I added some, pepper and let it cook for about a minute.

• then I added my locust beans, pieces of fish, seasoning, Maggi and salt, stir and leave it to cook together for few minutes.

• After few minutes, I added the vegetables, turn everything together in order to have a perfect mixture, I added fee more salt because when I tasted it wasn't enough, then I cover and let it cook together for some time, below is a how our vegetables looks in the end.

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• When the stew and vegetables soup was ready, I place some water on the fire to make my semovita. And when when the water as perfectly boiled I pour took out small in a cup.

• Then I por the semovita gradually into the boiling water and stir together till it's blend with the water. Which I then cover and let it boil for few seconds.

• I open the pot and added more semovita powered, then brought the pot down and stir it together till it's smooth and perfect, I added a little water and placed it on the fire again, turn together and it was ready to serve.

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• And here finally is our semovita and efo riro soup really to be consume, I enjoyed every bit of it with the chicken.

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Thanks so much for your time, I hope you enjoyed the recipe procedure, have a blessed and productive day week ahead.