Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will 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 - 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 recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Prepare Ata rodo (scotch bonnet peppers or habanero peppers
- Take Onions
- Prepare 2 cups Egusi seeds
- Get meat stock
- Get Ugwu (pumpkin) and waterleaf
- Get Locust beans
- Prepare crayfish, dry fish
- Prepare assorted meats and beef precooked and fried
- Get Salt
- Get cubes Seasoning
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:
- Blend the red bell pepper, habanero pepper, crayfi and one onion with little water just enough to help the blender then set it aside
- Blend the ground Egusi and half of the onion into a thicker paste and set aside
- 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
- 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
- Add the Egusi paste in lumps to the pepper mixture and cook on low heat
- When the egusi begins to stick to the pot, stir and fry the it for about 5 mins, stir more frequently to prevent burning
- Add the meat stock. Taste and Adjust the seasoning. Allow to cook for for another 10 mins
- Add the fried meats and stir
- Add the chopped vegetable, turn off heat and slow residual heat cook the vegetable
- Serve with any swallow food of choice
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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