BEAUTY

O7 green corn ears

Mel
Dendê oil

Preparation

Grate the corn cobs, place them in a gourd, add honey and palm oil.
Mixing everything until it becomes thick.

ADALU
(Food for Ògún)

black beans
Boiled red corn
Dende Oil
grated onion
Ground coffee
Dried shrimp

Preparation

Mix the corn and beans, sautéing with dendê oil, pepper, onion and
shrimp.
Sometimes it is served accompanied by the meat of the animals sacrificed in your
ritual.

ABADOSUN

7 or 9 ears of roasted green corn

Cane syrup
Star anise powder

Preparation

After roasting the ears, place them in a gourd upside down if it is for
Iyàgbà, or in a bowl with the tips facing up if it is for Gbòrò,
pour sweet cane syrup over all the ears and sprinkle with powder of
anis.

Serve any hunter orisha.

Ex. Ògún – Erinlè – Òtyìn – Oyà – Yòbá – Iyewá – Òbàlúwàiyé.

They Were Abandoned

1 kg of roasted red corn

1 kg of raw red corn
 21 small pieces of beef or game meat
Palm oil

Preparation
After roasting the corn, put it in a bowl adding the pieces of
meat, mix everything and drizzle with plenty of palm oil. Then serve.
in Ogun accompanied by Gin or Whiskey.

This food should only be offered to the òrìsá Ògún in the street, for the purpose
to destroy negative energies by killing the difficulties of life through
The corn has been roasted and is no longer sprouting. What should follow shortly after.
offer to Ògún on the way home the raw corn to pass over the head
dropping directly on the ground and throwing water over the corns
with the purpose of bringing forth all good things and money along the way.

BALANCE
Sweet rice ball

White rice
Goat milk
Sugar
Fennel
Star anise powder

Preparation
Cook the rice with sugar over medium heat. After it is well cooked, add
the milk, sweet herb, and star anise - beating well with the wooden spoon, until
turn into a mush by letting it boil a bit longer until a paste is obtained. Remove from
Fire, let it cool and make balls.

This food is only not offered to Ògún and Èsú.

ABARÀ
Literally = what makes one accept suddenly

Raw Akarajé dough

grated onion
Dried shrimp
Dendê Oil
Atàré (coast pepper)
Banana leaf (roasted)

Preparation

Prepare the bean dough identical to that of akara, add shelled atarè.
grated onion, shrimp, and palm oil. Put a little on the banana leaf,
wrapping into little bundles. Cook in steam.

Abarà is offered to Orí, Èsú, Ìyàmi-Òsòróngà, Ògún, Sàngó, Oyà, Yòbá.

Egungun, Omolu and Obaluwaiye.

Bean Cake
 Cassava flour
½ kg of gold banana
Sugar
7 raw eggs

Star anise powder

I prepare
Mix the flour with the mashed banana, sugar, star anise, and the eggs.
mix well, then gradually add warm water while beating well until obtaining
a light dough with good binding, form balls with your hands.

This food is exclusively offered to Ògún.

Note: The person who will make this food must have an owl feather on them.
chest exposing a sample between your Asó-Àiya.

FISH TAIL

Acarajé dough (seasoned with shrimp and onion)

Smoked catfish and shredded salted fish
Dende oil

Preparation

Beat the dough for akará and mix in the shredded fish. Fry in the oil.
palm oil.
This food is offered to Ogun, Osun, Iyewa, Erinle, Otyin, Yoba, Ibeji and
Wisdom.

NOTATION

Prepare a dough with white beans similar to the dough of Akarajé.

grated onion
Ground shrimp
Salt to taste (except for Òòrisànlà-Òbátálà)
Sunflower oil

Preparation

Place the dough in a bowl and add the grated onion and the shrimp to beat.
After obtaining the homogeneous mass, let it rest for 3:00 hours and fry in oil.
sunflower.

This food is offered to Òsún, Òòrisànlà-Òbátálà, Oyà, Iyewá, Iyémowo and

Omolu.

The pursuit of wisdom

3 yams from the large north.

Ground shrimp
Salt
 grated onion
Chopped green onion
Bay leaf powder
Dende oil

Preparation

Cook the yam, peel it after cooking, and mash it well.

making a kind of hard puree. Add all the ingredients to make a cake
fry in palm oil. Arrange in a

straw basket adorned with Igi-òpé leaves. When offering to Ògún, add
atàré grains.
Note: The woman when preparing this food should first apply charcoal powder.
about the eyelids.

TATTOO

The same dough of akarajé adding chopped okra fried in olive oil.
dende

Fate-Destiny

corn flour
Cane syrup
Ash of Osun
Star anise powder
Water

Preparation

Put a good amount of cornmeal in a basin, add molasses to it.

I like it, the anise powder and Òsún and the water, mix well. Make bundles with leaves.
of banana tree and yellow with coastal straw and cook in steam.
This food is offered to Iyewá, Òbàlúwàiyé, and Òmólú.

SHRINE

Mashed black bean paste without broth.

Water
grated onion
Ground shrimp
3 ground atare beans - ground lelekun - ground white pepper
Salt
Palm oil
Preparation
Put the mashed beans in a bowl and mix all the ingredients together.
after frying in palm oil. Arrange in a bowl and offer to the orisha with a
virgin machete on top.
Obs. Offering made to the Òrìsás associated with war.

ÀKOSO
(offering of fruits)
 A clay vessel
golden banana
Banana D’terra
Water Banana
Melon
Papaya
Grape
Soursop
Apple
16 sheaves of wheat
01 echo
Two orogbo
Two obis are slaughtered
Sugar
Star anise powder

Preparation

At the bottom of the container, place a wrapped ekó in a little bit of clay.
moist, covering this clay with sugar and anise, by obí and opened orógbó and
arrange all the fruits covering everything and sprinkle water on top of the fruits
then sprinkle generously with granulated sugar.

Offer to Ògún, Òbàlúwàiyé, Erinlè, Òsún, and Orí.

AMALÁ
(also called Amo-ilà)

cassava flour
2 bunches of mint
Peppermint leaves
dried shrimp
A good amount of okra
Can
Palm oil

Preparation

Make a thick pirão, then after it's ready, put it in a bowl. Sauté the
onion, the mint and the shrimp when well sautéed in palm oil
add the okra and let it cook over low heat, when it is almost dry
put the Kan and stir a little and pour it over the pirão.

APAAI
(Kill the negativity)

Corn flour farofa with pieces of smoked catfish

07 boiled duck eggs
Dende oil
Salt
A turtle shell
Preparation

Inside the turtle shell, the farofa and the 07 duck eggs are arranged.
with palm oil.

APABURU or APAKU
(What kills evil)

smoked catfish
Duck eggs
Water banana

Preparation

Take the catfish, grate it into flour, mix in the boiled and crumbled eggs.
sliced banana mixing everything to make a farofa. Divide into
two containers placing in a bowl and a gourd.

Note. This food is intended to soften and ward off the death of a child.
and attract prosperity, only offered to Ibeji in front of the settlement of Èsú
you will bury it, as well as the owner burying it.

BATÊTÊ

Northeastern yam
Atare
Salt
Dendê oil

Preparation

Take three raw northern yam and cut into pieces, mix with palm oil.
sprinkle it with salt. Place it in a bowl and offer it to Èsú or Ògún. For the purpose of
ask for prosperity.

Dún

North yam
Dende oil
Salt

Preparation

Peel the yam and slice it thinly. Then fry it in palm oil.
Offer to Ògún or Èsú.

It is in the middle
(for money)

Dende oil
Grated onion
Dried or fresh shrimp
Green smell
 Fish market
Cornstarch
Búzios

Preparation

Make a sauté with palm oil, shrimp, onion, and atarô, when
if well sautéed, add water and arrange the fish fillets and green herbs. After
Arrange the cooking in the container. With the water that remained in the pan.
add a little cornstarch and make a cream, once ready drizzle
on top of the fillets and spread shells over everything.
Offer to the ancestors.

It is polite.
manioc flour porridge with oxtail sauce

Two or three oxtails

Grated onion
1 ground atar bean
Palm oil
3 tablespoons of annatto powder
Garden mint
9 headless orôgbó
A porridge of water

Preparation

Make a sauté of oxtails with onion, ataré, dendê oil, and urucum.
let it cook, when it is ready add the mint and place on top
make pirão. When it's time to serve, add the orógbó.

Note. This type of Èba is only offered to Sàngó and Egúngún, this is because,
the tail of the ox, like that of any other animal, is related to the
ancestors, associated with the end, death, that is, the extermination of something bad, the
that enables the restart of good things, representing in the offering of a tail
of the boy related to Odù Òyèkú (Die and be reborn). If the òrìsá Eegun and the
Egúngún are naturally associated with death (Ikú), Sàngó does not escape this
context, for he is the òrìsá who violently kills through lightning what
express your relationship with Ikú.

EGBO

white canjica
Golden
Palm oil

Preparation

Cooked canjica mixed with òri. When offering, after greeting Òòrisànlà.
Obatala, place a few drops of palm oil in the center of the canjica and greet
Mother. This offering has the sole purpose of attracting happiness, joy,
contentment and satisfaction.
EGBOYAAN

boiled red canjica

Powder of osun
Dende oil

Preparation

Cooked canjica mixed with osun and palm oil. Offer it to

any Iyágba

EYINSUN

07 chicken eggs
7 guinea fowl eggs
07 duck eggs

Cook all the eggs, peel and crumble them one by one, in a dish.
to soil and sprinkle a little basil powder and offer it to any Iyágba
for the purpose of purging diseases.

It is done
Show leaf.
Chinese spinach (betal leaf)
Ewé Bala (taioba leaf)
Dried shrimp
grated onion
1 peeled ataré bean
Raw and ground peanuts
Grated ginger
07 boiled eggs (chicken)
Dende oil
salt

Preparation

Sauté the palm oil with shrimp, onion, and ginger. When it is well done
sauté, add the leaves and the peanuts, the ataré and salt. Keep stirring until
turn into a dough. Place in a container and decorate with boiled eggs
Offer to Òsònyin.

It is known

For Ìyàmi-Òsòróngà
African Salad
Bertalha leaves sautéed with palm oil, onion, and shrimp.

For Oyà
Vegetable Soup

Sautéed kale leaves with palm oil, onion, and shrimp.

For Yoruba
Efó Bala
Sautéed taioba leaves with palm oil, onion, shrimp, and atàré.

For Òòrìsànlà
Crispy Vulture
Bredo leaves, cow tongue, and large purslane, sauté with ori, onion and
white pepper. Offer covered with efun.

For Òbàlúwàiyé
I am busy
Sautéed show leaves with dendê oil, grated onion, and shrimp.

EGEYAN

Cassava
dende oil

Cook and fry the cassava in palm oil. Offer it to Òbàlúwàiyé and
The intention is to request sustenance

EJA-SISUN
Fried or smoked fish

Esu – Smoked catfish or dried and salted cod with a lot of olive oil
from palm oil, put over farinha porridge and cover with shellfish.

Yòbá- Fried tilapia or catfish in dendê oil.

Note: (In Yòbá, fish or any other stewed food is not offered)

Osun – trail or catfish without skin, fried in palm oil, covered with powder
of Osun and Búzios.

ELÚBO
(Here in Brazil it's called pade, which is actually a ritual and not food).

ELÚBO= Cassava flour mixed with other spices.

For Òòrisànlà-Òbátálà and Iyémow, mix the offering and do a

well-moistened farofa.

For Ibejimisture, use osun powder and smashed banana D ’água or fish.
dried catfish.

For Òbàlúwàiyémisture banana slices from the land and powdered osun.

For Ogun, mix palm oil and charcoal powder.

For Sàngó and Oyà, mix honey and osun powder.

 For Egúngún, the mixture should be well moistened.

For Òsúnmisture, crumbled boiled egg yolk, cane syrup,

sweet herb and star anise powder.

All these types of offerings are presented to Èsú at the feet of Òrìsá so that he can...
delivered.

HELLO
(Raw kids)

Beef heart
Rinse
Liver
Both
Dende oil
Atàré
Mel
Lelekun
Orógbó

Preparation

Take all the entrails of the sacrificed animals and put everything in a bowl.
add plenty of palm oil, add ataré, honey, lelekun and orógbós
split in half.
This food is only offered to Ìyàmi-Òsòróngà in front of the settlement of
deity that was the sacrifice.
FESELÚ
Cassava flour
Water
A large bowl

Preparation

Mix the flour with water, beating well until you get a raw dough, let it swell.
and put it in a bowl.
This food is offered to Egùngún and his house or on the street before anything.
great ritual.

Beguirí

peeled black-eyed peas

2 liters of dendê oil
Onion
fresh shrimp
Ground dried lemon peel
dried malagueta pepper powder
Dried garden mint leaves in powder

Preparation
Cook the black-eyed peas without letting them get too soft. Make a sauté with the
mix the above ingredients with the beans to make a soup.

Note. This bean soup should be prepared only with palm oil and
saturated without adding water, after it's ready, place it in a bowl and
offer to Sàngó still warm.
Gbegìrì(beguirí)=Literally "what softens or calms quickly" this
spicy soup is only offered to Sàngó and Oyà for the purpose of calming
a situation of betrayal, break of friendship or maintaining control of a
uncomfortable situation.
All foods offered to Sàngó must be delivered very hot.
smoking due to its natural condition (Hot), this is because one of its
Ewo is food or anything cold that reminds one of the nature of a corpse
(cold) non-existence of life, in other words, the warmth of Sàngó has no aversion at all
to Eègun or Egùngún, this is because it has a fire essence (spiritual fire)
an expression of warmth similar to the aspect and characteristic of Sàngó.
This proves that one of Sàngó's ewo is not Egúngún, but rather the deceased.
its cold condition compared to any cold object or element. The use of
any cold-looking aspect or characteristic in the worship of Sàngó will result in
in your dissipation of the energy of the spirit of the lightning (Sàngó) which possesses
warm nature.

GUNFUN

Cook northern yam with the peel, then after cooking, peel and mash it.
and placing it in a bowl, offer it to the Òrìsás of the cult associated with white.
Ex. Orisha-Obatala, Osun, Ajaguemo, Iyerewyin, Osapepe, etc...

ISÍPETE

1 red pumpkin without skin.

Fresh shrimp.
Grated onion.
1 ground ataré bean.
Grated ginger.
Garden mint leaves.
Ground clove.

Preparation

Cook the pumpkin and then mash it to make a sort of puree. Make a
sauté with all the ingredients and mix in the pumpkin.

Offer to the male Egúngún and Sàngó.

OBEEJA
(stewed fish with pirão to attract wealth)
For Ogun/Logun_ catfish stew with yellow belly and onion,
fresh shrimp, lelekun, star anise powder, ata funfun.

For Òbàlúwàiyé – catfish stew with onion, dried shrimp, ata

fennel, star anise powder, fresh melon seed, òri.

For Osagiyan - skinless catfish stew with onion, shrimp

fresco, white pepper, anise star powder and white flour.
Note. Place on top of a yam puree and cover with seashells.

For Òòrisànlà-Òbátálà or Iyémowo - skinless catfish stew with

onion, fresh shrimp, lelekun, white pear, anise powder, and white oil.

For Sàngó - catfish stew with onion, fresh shrimp, lelekun, powder of
star anise, Dudu powder (black pepper), ataré powder, nut powder
musk. After it's ready, sprinkle grated orógbó on top.

For Iyewá - stew of dogfish eyes with onion, dried shrimp, lelekun and
star anise powder.

For Òsún - stewed tilapia or skinned catfish stewed with onion,

dried shrimp, lelekun and dendê oil.

For Oyà - fish stew with anchovy or catfish, onions, palm oil,
shrimp, Lelekun, atare and ginger.
Obs. Put the fish on top of the porridge and place shellfish on top of the fish.

OBÉWA
(Bean soup)

black-eyed pea
palm oil

Preparation

Cooked beans al dente and mix with dendê oil

This food is offered to Ibeji in two calabashes with plenty of osun powder.
top, deliver to the needy solutions to problems involving children
related to twin pregnancy. Already when offering aÒbàlúwàiyéé in
purpose of obtaining money and offering to open the paths.

Bitter Leaf

Water Banana - Offered ripe or green in bunch only to Èsú.

Water Banana - Offered to Òsún, Erinlè and the Gèlèdès
Golden Banana – Offered only to Ògún and Lógùn, fried and sprinkled
with powdered cinnamon and sugar.
Fried Apple Banana – Offered to Iyewá sprinkled with cinnamon and
sugar.
Banana from the earth - Offered to Òbàlúwàiyé, Sàngó, and Egùngún, raw or
fried.
Banana fig– Offered to Òmólú and Òsònyim fried or raw in slices.
Silver banana – Offered to Òòrisànlà-Òbátálà fried with sunflower oil
 raw sugar sprinkled with crystal sugar.

Note: In animal sacrifice rites, the banana must be offered raw and sliced.
in slices. In some cases, certain qualities of banana should be offered fried.

OKA-BAABÀ

Sago
Water

Preparation

In a pot, mix sagu with water and cook over low heat. When it has
once a consistency is achieved, remove it from the heat and place it in a white bowl.

This food is only offered to Òòrisànlà-Òbátálà and the male Egùngún.

GOD OF THE OCEAN

black-eyed pea
Palm oil
Dried or fresh shrimp
Grated onion
Salt
Dried ginger powder
07 boiled eggs greased with dendê oil
Dried catfish powder

Preparation

Cook the beans until they are very soft, then remove from the heat and drain them.
broth reserving a bit of this water. Prepare a sauté with olive oil from
dendê and all the other ingredients, sauté the cooked beans stirring well
until it reaches a pasty consistency, then start adding water
reserved for a few until obtaining a homogeneous and consistent dough.
After it's ready, place it in a clay container, decorating it with the eggs.
If a woman wants children, offer her with 07 Ikodidé standing.

Òmòlokun = Literally "What fills the child with life". This food is very
especially for the children. It should be offered to Òsún only in
situations where there is an extreme need, e.g., to save a child from
death by disease. It should be adorned with 7 boiled duck eggs and 9 eggs of
raw chicken with an Ikodidé in the center of this food.
When there is a need to free an adult from negativities and
Banal illness should be offered to Èsù with 7 chicken eggs and 9 eggs.
crazy fish and also an Ikodidé in the center of the food.
This food is also offered in the mortuary ritual called asese.
only with a boiled duck egg in the center. For the purpose of freeing the
officiant and the other participants of the ritual.

OJIYÉ

Cooked black-eyed pea

 Dendê oil
Grated ginger
Dry powdered catfish
Powdered dry preá
7 boiled duck eggs brushed with palm oil and sulfur
yellow

Preparation

Cooked black-eyed peas mixed with dendê oil, catfish, agouti, ginger,
arrange in the container and adorn with the eggs.
Note: To activate the energy of a sick or weak person, sprinkle 07 pinches.
of sulfur and salt over the Ojiyé and the Orí of the person... Before Èsú.

OSIKI

They were snails (meat of snails sacrificed to any Òrìsá)

Fresh shrimp
grated onion
A piece of ginger.
Treasure
The Spirit of the Water
A handful of fresh melon or pumpkin seeds.
Thin echo

Preparation

Cook the igbin meat until it is well cooked, then sauté with oil, shrimp,
onion, ginger. After it's ready, mix the ekó and the seeds.
Note: In any òrìsá ritual where the sacrifice of igbin is performed, its
meats must be prepared the osiki, this food is by excellence of
Òòrisànlà, which must be offered to Òòrisànlà himself, at the feet of the òrìsá that
the ritual was performed.

PETENAMO

Sweet potato
Dried or fresh shrimp
grated onion
Grated ginger
Salt
Palm oil
Dust of osun

Preparation

Cook the potato and mash it well. Make a sauté with palm oil and
all the ingredients. When everything is well sautéed, add the potato and
mix well, remove from heat and add osun powder.

This food is offered to Òbàlúwàiyé and Òsún on rainy days. For the purpose
of business prosperity and fertility.
PETEKI

Northern yam
Dende oil
grated onion
Dried and ground shrimp
About Ikodidé
Dust of a beard
White Búzios
Urukun (Osun River)

Preparation

Cook and mash the yam until you get a puree. Sauté with palm oil,
onion, annatto
and the shrimp. Add the yam and mix well, and leave it on the fire for a little longer.
seconds. Remove from the heat and place in a clay pot when it cools
place the ikodidé in the center of the food and spread the cowries on top.

Note. This food is only offered to Òsún in the worship of Òbàlúwàiyé.

the sole purpose is to attract wealth.

WARA

A clay pot as a lid

crumbled minas cheese
Palm oil
Mel
A pinch of Waji
A pinch of Eedu
A pinch of osun
A pinch of efun
Gin
Preparation

Crumble the cheese in the pan, spray gin, and add the palm oil.
honey, waji, pour the oil. Close the pot and enchant with Oriki, then
to take to an Orita on a hill.

WELCOME

Acarajé dough
09 boiled and crumbled chicken eggs
Salt

Preparation

Roll the dough in the banana leaf and steam it until

that hardens.
After cooling, remove from the sheet and crumble, mix in the eggs also crumbled.
and the salt. Offer to the Aye in the following way; go to the back of the yard and
start spreading this food on the ground until you reach the gate asking the
There is everything you need regarding prosperity and protection against evil.
OFFERING - YAM

Yam
Powder of Osun
Dust of waji
efun powder

Cook the yam, after cooking peel and mash it and place it in a
plate for male orisha or in a gourd for female orisha.
Adding on top efun powder, osun powder, and waji powder, (elements
symbols of Iwà aba and àsé.
This food is offered exclusively to Òrúnmìlá