Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Egusi soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have egusi soup using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Take leaves Ugu
- Prepare Egusi
- Take Scotch bonnets
- Make ready Pepper
- Prepare Tomatoes
- Make ready Onions
- Prepare Local spices: Locust beans (daddawa and kulkulen miya)
- Take Seasonings
- Make ready Dry fish
- Prepare Beef
- Get Palm oil
- Take Cray fish
Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.
Steps to make Egusi soup:
- Firstly wash the tomatoes, pepper, scotch bonnets and onions, then blend
- Wash and cut the ugu leaves
- In a pot add palm oil and pour the blended veggies, and fry, in another pot wash and put the beef with seasonings and boil till tender, then pour in the other pot
- Add water, seasonings and spices, grind the egusi and cray fish
- Let the soup boil till it reduces, then pour the ugu leaves,and dry fish, in a bowl put your grinded egusi and put a little amount of water and mix well, then put on top of the ugu leaves without turning and close
- After some minutes your egusi soup will be ready, serve with any swallow of ur choice, I served mine with pounded yam.
Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup, also called melon soup is an absolute delightful delicacy enjoyed all over West Africa. Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. Quick, easy and healthier Egusi soup, made with lots of spinach. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient.
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