Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, egusi soup/melon soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna 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. Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup.
Egusi soup/melon soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Egusi soup/melon soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi soup/melon soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup/melon soup:
- Get 2 cup grounded egusi
- Take 1 tablespoon cray fish
- Make ready Dried fish
- Make ready Meat
- Make ready Seasoning
- Take Salt
- Take Palm oil
- Prepare Red bell pepper(tattasai)
- Prepare Pepper (attarugu)
- Prepare Onions
- Prepare Ugu
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Instructions to make Egusi soup/melon soup:
- Make a thick paste with your ground egusi,make them into balls
- Put 1 cooking spoon of palm oil in a pan heat it with some onions add in your egusi balls and fry them on low heat,you don’t have to turn them constantly to avoid them from been breaking
- After your egusi balls are fried you removed them from oil gently to avoid them from breaking
- Add some oil if their is need for that,fry your grained pepper mix,after frying them you add your stock,meat,crayfish and fish,let them simmer for some minutes
- You now add inn your fried egusi ball into the soup and allow it to cook for some few min with out turning it,finally add ur chopped ugu and cover to simmer for 3 to 5min and ur egusi soup is ready to be served with tuwo or any swallow of your choice
Egusi Soup is a Nigerian classic enjoyed in various forms across the country. Here is what egusi looks like: Egusi is basically white pumpkin seeds though some people prefer to call it melon seeds. Egusi soup is really not a soup at all, much more like a stew but it has superb flavor. I love trying new ingredients egusi seeds are delicous! Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa.
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