YORUBA FOOD 

   Here we come again specializing in Yoruba food. Nigeria is blessed with some culture, ethnics, Foods. Basically, we will be looking at Yoruba food. 

Here comes the Yoruba Food.
    
    1. Ewedu and Gbegiri with Amala: Blended beans (yellow paste) and finally chopped jute leaves (Ewedu) topped on delicious (omi-obe) stew. Traditionally eaten with Amala, and assorted meat (brokotobro) meat inside the goat. Is a native to the Yoruba's in Nigerians. Amala is a stable food of Yoruba origin eaten by the poor, rich, sick, healthy, pregnant women, adult and children. Amala is not soley from yam flour, some people use cassava and plantain. Amala goes with any soup but believed to be best with ewedu and gbegiri.


    2. Efo riro: Efo Riro is mixed greens, and its history is connected to the Afang soup of Efik origin. Efo Riro is prepared with smoked fish or meat stock, tatashi, spinach, and local condiments. Eaten mostly with any swallow. You will get a lot of proteins and vitamins from this traditional meal. 



    3. Akara: Akara is a popular name in the Nigerian food culture. It can be eaten with Pap, Custard. You blend raw beans and deep fry them for breakfast. Also eaten by the Yoruba's. Akara dish is protein-filled and can also be used as a snack any time of the day. You can call them aromatic bean cakes.  
    

4. Igbin: Original Igbin chops by the Yoruba tribe are the best for snack time. The dish is made of snails garnished with pepper sauce and onion. You can also turn it into a stew and serve it with fermented cassava fufu (Akpu), dried cassava (Eba/Garri), boiled & pounded yams (yam fufu), or green plantains fufu. 


    5. Ewa Agoyin (Soft Beans): is the main protein rich food which is made from beans, and it is readily available to Yoruba Nigerians. It feels very light and pasty to consume and when you eat a full plate, Eaten with bread, Pap, Custard. you just feel full almost throughout the day and keep drinking water.
It is usually served with pepper sauce which can be very oily since the beans was prepared without oil. Hence, the soup can provide the oil needed to absorb the vitamins in the meal. Ewa Agoyin is made up of cooked beans and pepper sauce. It is a delicious beans dish, well-known for its softness and tasty sauce. It is normally made when twins are born or a child with the umbilical cord over his/her neck is born. For these special children, it is believed that beans must be cooked whenever they have special events such as wedding, birthday etc.


    6. Ekure: Is a blended white beans and pepper oil. also it is prepared almost the same way with miomio.


    7. Egusi And Pounded Yam: Pounded yam is mostly eaten with egusi (melon soup). Pounded yam is made by boiling yam without salt and pounding it. Alternative pounded yam is using readymade yam flour, but it doesn’t taste like the original. The Yoruba's people are known to be fond of pounded yam, some other People like their pounded yam with Okro soup. When the Yoruba people are expecting important guests, they take their time to make this delicacy. It is believed that when you are offered this food, you mean so much to the person. 


    8. Pepper Stew ( Obe Ata): It is a pepper stew made with only pepper, dried fish, small ponmo and Snail. It is eaten with white rice. 




    9. Concoction Rice: is a home-made food in Nigeria prepared instead of jollof rice or conventional white rice. The major ingredients used in making the food include rice, palm oil and salt. It is referred to as concoction rice since vegetable oil is replaced by palm oil.


10. Omi Obe Stew: It a stew and also prepared with white okro then mixed them together, also is eaten with Eba, Semo, all kinds of swallow.