Egusi soup
Egusi soup

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Egusi soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
  1. Get Ata rodo (scotch bonnet peppers or habanero peppers
  2. Make ready Onions
  3. Get 2 cups Egusi seeds
  4. Get meat stock
  5. Prepare Ugwu (pumpkin) and waterleaf
  6. Make ready Locust beans
  7. Get crayfish, dry fish
  8. Make ready assorted meats and beef precooked and fried
  9. Get Salt
  10. Make ready cubes Seasoning

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.

Instructions to make Egusi soup:
  1. Blend the red bell pepper, habanero pepper, crayfi and one onion with little water just enough to help the blender then set it aside
  2. Blend the ground Egusi and half of the onion into a thicker paste and set aside
  3. Heat up palm oil, poured chopped onions and fry for about 1 minute, then add the washed locust bean and stir for another 1 minute. Add the rinsed fried fish
  4. Pour in the blended bell pepper/habanero/onion mix and stir. Add salt and seasoning cubes. Cook the pepper mix until reduced to a loose paste
  5. Add the Egusi paste in lumps to the pepper mixture and cook on low heat
  6. When the egusi begins to stick to the pot, stir and fry the it for about 5 mins, stir more frequently to prevent burning
  7. Add the meat stock. Taste and Adjust the seasoning. Allow to cook for for another 10 mins
  8. Add the fried meats and stir
  9. Add the chopped vegetable, turn off heat and slow residual heat cook the vegetable
  10. Serve with any swallow food of choice

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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