Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, melon (egusi) soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Hey Guys, Here's how to make one of Nigeria's favorite dishes.
Melon (Egusi) Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Melon (Egusi) Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have melon (egusi) soup using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Prepare 4 cups melon (as desired) blended smooothly
- Take 1 medium size Onion blended to a smooth paste with water
- Take Meats of your choice
- Get Stock fish
- Take Ponmo
- Get Locust bean
- Get Dry Catfish
- Take Meat stock
- Make ready cubes Seasoning
- Take Salt
- Make ready Fresh bonnet peppers blended
- Take Palm oil
- Prepare Crayfish blended with the melon
- Get pumpkin leafs sliced
Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd). Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds and eaten with fufu dishes. It makes a wonderful and satisfying low carb dinner! Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa.
Instructions to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Wash the meats and everything needed thoroughly. Cook the meat with the ponmo and stockfish together with seasoning cubes and salt. Drop from heat and sieve the stock. Set aside.
- Wash the dry Catfish thoroughly with warm water and set aside. - I used chicken for this melon soup and fried it lightly. I like my meats lightly fried for some soups.. The choice is yours
- Blend the pepper with water separately from the melon. - Pour the blended melon, crayfish in a bowl and add the blended onions. - Mix to combine and form a thick paste.
- Put the pot for the soup on fire. Add palm oil, the blended fresh peppers, - Allow to boil for like 2 minutes.
- Use your washed hands or spoon to cut lumps of the mixed melon into the boiling pepper Mix. Don't stir. Allow to fry for like 3minutes. Before stirring gently.
- Add the meat stock and locust bean. - If the meat water(stock) added is not enough to cook the soup, please add ordinary water. Gauge with your eyes. - - Allow to boil for some minutes until it molds. Then add your meat, fish, ponmo and other available fish..
- Stir gently, taste for seasoning cubes and salt. Add the pumpkin leafs and drop from heat.
Finding new ingredients is just one of the joys of this culinary journey around the world. Egusi is a seed that comes from a. Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or Peradventure you are keen on planting egusi melon by yourself, here are the easiest steps on how. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup.
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