Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 - Today I'm going to be showing you how to make Egusi soup since I made my last egg this would be a lot of you have been asking me to make.
Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Egusi soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have egusi soup using 16 ingredients and 19 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Prepare Egusi
- Make ready Crayfish
- Get Assorted meat
- Make ready 2 Stock fish
- Prepare 2 Dry fish
- Take Scotch bonnet
- Prepare 1 large onion bulb
- Get Black pepper
- Make ready 2 Calabar nutmeg
- Prepare 4 Seasoning cubes
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
- Prepare Palm oil
- Get Beef seasoning
- Prepare Dry ginger or fresh ginger
- Make ready 3 garlic clove
- Prepare 2 cups water
Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors! See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
Steps to make Egusi soup:
- Assemble your ingredients.
- Soak the stock fish in hot water for 20min
- Wash your meats and place in pot and add blended scotch bonnet mixture
- Add the stock fish and coarsely grounded black pepper, ginger and nutmeg
- Add salt
- Beef seasoning
- Seasoning cubes
- Slice onions
- Add water enough to cover the meat. I add 2 cups because i want my meat to be soft especially because it has cow skin (ganda)
- Ground your crashfish and mix with the egusi
- Mix till combined
- Add your palm oil to the egusi. Mix and set aside till your meat is soft
- Now scoop the mixture into the your meat as shown in the picture
- Cook till oil appears on the surface. Adjust seasoning to taste
- Now add your ugwu leaves. I washed it with salt and drain before adding
- Tadaa! It's ready. Typically igbo style. You should try it really.
- I served mine with semovita meal
- Yeppie! Enjoy
- Note: these egusi soup is healthier because the oil is cooked and not fried
Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. 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. Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous (squash, melon, gourd) plants. Egusi soup is common and prevalent across Central Africa, and may be served atop rice.
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