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How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by alanto(op):
This is to bring Yoruba foods to the world, I have made a list of foods I know to be indigenous to the Yoruba, you are free to add yours.

1 Iyan Isu (Pounded Yam)
2 Iyan Gbere (Pounded African Bread Fruit)
3 Iyan Koko (Pounded Cocoyam)
4 Ebiripo (Grated Cocoyam)
5 Ifokore/Ikokore (Grated Water yam)
6 Ekuru (more like moi moi without the ingredients, to be eaten with fried stew)
7 Akara
8 Moi moi
9 Amala dudu (processed yam flour)
10 Amala funfun (processed Cassava)
11 Mon nu (like moi moi can't remember the main ingredient, ate it as a kid in the village)
12 Sapala (Cooked Dried Maze eaten with coconut)

Soups
Eforiro
Egusi Ijebu
Egusi elefo
Gbegiri
Omi Obe
Ata didin


Varieties of Vegetables indigenous to Yorubas.
Elegede
Odu
Tete
Soko
Igbo
Worowo
Ewuro
Ila
Ewedu
Gbure
Amunutu


I understand that different Yoruba villages have their varieties of foods, fruits and vegetables so you are free to add yours.

Picture 1 (Iyan)
Picture 2 (Ebiripo)
Picture 3 (Amala Isu AKA "Amala dudu" meaning black Amala.
Picture 4 (Amala Lafun, AKA "Amala fufun" meaning white Amala

Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by alanto(op):
Ikokore

Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Dilijingsly(m): 10:23am On Dec 31, 2023
Keep trying to upload the images
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Tranquillity360: 10:30am On Dec 31, 2023
I can't eat yoruba food.




No offense intended
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Beremx(f): 10:46am On Dec 31, 2023
I cooked efo riro last week. At least in a month I cook it once with pounded yam.

Still learning how to cook other type of soups. Na small small I go learn am. grin grin
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by sureleads: 10:58am On Dec 31, 2023
Obe Apon
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by ajailer(m): 11:14am On Dec 31, 2023
kpukuru(pupuru), a swallow made from cassava, an Ondo delicacy.
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by mariahAngel(f): 1:30pm On Dec 31, 2023
alanto:
Nairaland won't allow me to upload photos. I don't know why
Keep on trying.


By the way, you forgot to add ojojo, my favourite.
I loved it at first taste.

Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by alanto(op): 2:15pm On Dec 31, 2023
mariahAngel:
Keep on trying.


By the way, you forgot to add ojojo, my favourite.
I loved it at first taste.
I just don't know if many peoples know thes foods, there's another called dele (both "Es" with undermark)
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Burgermotors: 2:38pm On Dec 31, 2023
I don't know any, na money I they fine
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by ahnie: 3:32pm On Dec 31, 2023
Beremx:
I cooked efo riro last week. At least in a month I cook it once with pounded yam.

Still learning how to cook other type of soups. Na small small I go learn am. grin grin
Come adopt me please.... atleast I go dey sure of free foods.
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Beremx(f): 6:21pm On Dec 31, 2023
ahnie:
Come adopt me please.... atleast I go dey sure of free foods.
cheesy grin it is well o!
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by ahnie: 6:23pm On Dec 31, 2023
Beremx:
cheesy grin it is well o!
I m serious o....sapa don bend my waist.

Abeg nne adopt me
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Beremx(f): 7:13pm On Dec 31, 2023
ahnie:
I m serious o....sapa don bend my waist.

Abeg nne adopt me
sapa no go bend your waist. You wey wan add weight. If say dem dey share fat, I for don dash you small grin grin
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by ahnie: 7:15pm On Dec 31, 2023
Beremx:
sapa no go bend your waist. You wey wan add weight. If say dem dey share fat, I for don dash you small grin grin
All na cruise cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Beremx(f): 7:19pm On Dec 31, 2023
ahnie:
All na cruise cheesy cheesy cheesy
Lol okay o! Happy new year my sister grin cool
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by ahnie: 7:24pm On Dec 31, 2023
Beremx:
Lol okay o! Happy new year my sister grin cool
The same to you my Dearest Bee
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by LivingSage:
Addendum

SOUP/VEGETABLE
Eegun (the dried one is the luru soup of the Northerner)
Odo/omudo Koko - young, curly sprouting red cocoyam leaf (best for eating yam)
Esi (it's like pawpaw fruit, sliced, dried and sell dried - it's mostly added to egusi soup and it's very sweet itself)
Olu (mushroom)
Ishapa
Ilasha
Efo Worowo
Efo Yanrin
Efo ogunmo
Efo Yanapaja
Efo Guure (waterleaf)
Agboroko (seed of a particular specie of ugu vegetable- grounded and looks like egusi).
Efo Gbagba/Efo odu
Egbo'yin /Egboyin (thesame Banga soup in South South)

FOOD
Asaro
Abari (Abari tepo tiyo) It's like moi moi but made from grinded maize. Small qty of Beans is added sometimes.
Igbalo (like moi moi as well)
Elenkute (made from shedded, fried/roasted corn, pounded in mortal with groundnut - it's Yoruba snack)
Egbo (with beans)
Eko (ogi/pap)
Eko yiyi (Solid pap) eaten with soup
Esuru (the bitter specie of yam)
Kooko (different from Koko), cooked and eaten or fried (dundu) just like yam


I'll keep updating as I remember

There are so many Yoruba indigenous delicacies that's going into extinction because most of the family barely cook them aside the known/common ones.

This is why some believe Yorubas doesn't have food that much which is wrong.

I wish I can be cooking them as my mum do cook for us when we're still young.
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by LivingSage: 6:11pm On Jan 01, 2024
Seunmsgg can help you with some Yoruba delicacy, ask him wink
Beremx:
I cooked efo riro last week. At least in a month I cook it once with pounded yam.

Still learning how to cook other type of soups. Na small small I go learn am. grin grin
sureleads:
Obe Apon
Let them know Apon is thesame known Ogbono soup in Edo. cheesy
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by PlayMaker14: 6:28pm On Jan 01, 2024
LivingSage:
Seunm can help you with some Yoruba delicacy, ask him wink


Let them know Apon is thesame known Ogbono soup in Edo. cheesy
Bro, you said I am a woman hater, you're wrong Egbon, you should have asked your mom about me, I treat her like a queen, much to her satisfaction.

You saying all that out of anger over something I don't know or maybe political differences.

You'll be fine Egbon mi.


Say me well to your mom, my sweet princess, and happy new year.

✌️🤍🤍💛🫂
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by LivingSage: 6:32pm On Jan 01, 2024
I said it and you proved me right.

Product of a failed home.

Now run along, I don't swim, not even with swine
PlayMaker14:
Bro, you said I am a woman hater, you're wrong Egbon, you should have asked your mom about me, I treat her like a queen, much to her satisfaction.

You saying all that out of anger over something I don't know or maybe political differences.

You'll be fine Egbon mi.


Say me well to your mom, my sweet princess, and happy new year.

✌️🤍🤍💛🫂
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by PlayMaker14: 6:33pm On Jan 01, 2024
LivingSage:
I said it and you proved me right.

Product of a failed home.
Say me well to your mom my princess. 😋

Swine? Don't mistake me for your Dad Egbon mi 😀💛🤍
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Beremx(f): 11:18pm On Jan 01, 2024
LivingSage:
Seunmsgg can help you with some Yoruba delicacy, ask him wink


Let them know Apon is thesame known Ogbono soup in Edo. cheesy
the way one lady called Dolapo Grey cooked the ogbono soup and posted it on Facebook. Most people disliked her method while a few Yoruba said it was apon style.
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by XAUBulls: 10:09am On Jan 03, 2024
alanto:
This is to bring Yoruba foods to the world, I have made a list of foods I know to be indigenous to the Yoruba, you are free to add yours.

1 Iyan Isu (Pounded Yam)
2 Iyan Gbere (Pounded African Bread Fruit)
3 Iyan Koko (Pounded Cocoyam)
4 Ebiripo (Grated Cocoyam)
5 Ifokore/Ikokore (Grated Water yam)
6 Ekuru (more like moi moi without the ingredients, to be eaten with fried stew)
7 Akara
8 Moi moi
9 Amala dudu (processed yam flour)
10 Amala funfun (processed Cassava)
11 Mon nu (like moi moi can't remember the main ingredient, ate it as a kid in the village)
12 Sapala (Cooked Dried Maze eaten with coconut)

Soups
Eforiro
Egusi Ijebu
Egusi elefo
Gbegiri
Omi Obe
Ata didin


Varieties of Vegetables indigenous to Yorubas.
Elegede
Odu
Tete
Soko
Igbo
Worowo
Ewuro
Ila
Ewedu
Gbure
Amunutu


I understand that different Yoruba villages have their varieties of foods, fruits and vegetables so you are free to add yours.

Picture 1 (Iyan)
Picture 2 (Ebiripo)
Picture 3 (Amala Isu AKA "Amala dudu" meaning black Amala.
Picture 4 (Amala Lafun, AKA "Amala fufun" meaning white Amala
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by AllahOfBlood: 5:45pm On Jan 04, 2024
cheesy

op I can't find ewedu in that list

include ewedu before I can comment on the topic
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by illicit(m): 5:45pm On Jan 04, 2024
Almost all of d above
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by seunlayi(m): 5:45pm On Jan 04, 2024
All
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by Metrofox(m): 5:46pm On Jan 04, 2024
grin
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by id4sho(m): 5:47pm On Jan 04, 2024
I've eaten number 6 Ekuru cool tongue

alanto
Re: How Many Of These Yoruba Food, Soups and Vegetables Do You Know? by pepperandsalt(m): 5:48pm On Jan 04, 2024
We die here
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