Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. 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 favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Prepare 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu)
- Make ready 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of cryfish
- Prepare 1 bowl Iced fish
- Get Small bowl of stockfish
- Get Bowl kpomo (ganda)
- Take 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper
- Prepare 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices
- Prepare 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa)
- Prepare Handful Uziza leaves
- Prepare 1 bowl red oil
- Take Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
- Take Oil to fry fish
- Take Seasoning
Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
Steps to make Egusi soup:
- I am going to be detailed here with my step by step cooking method. Ingredients loading…..
- ……. Roughly blend your onions and peppers. Share your spices and seasoning into 3 portions.
- In a pot of water boil stock fish + kpomo + a portion of your seasoning and spices.+ Onions + Iru for 30 min. Then boil your blend with a portion of spices and seasoning+Cameroon pepper with Iru till dry.
- Am going to fry my fish because is not a one time dine soup but am going to preserve it in the freezer, so I need my fish to be firm for a longer period.
- Put Palm oil and fry onions for 2 min. Then add the egusi and stir fry(mind you stir fry if not it will get burnt) you will notice it getting formy,continue to stir
- Add a portion of spices and seasoning, stir fry till the foam pipes down
- Add the boiled kpomo and stockfish+dried fish and you can add water based on the consistency (thickness)you want and allow for 10 min
- Add Uziza leaves (my Uziza 🤩 the scent is cloud 9) for 2 min
- Add ugu and fried fish and allow simmer for 2 min
- Then….
- You know! When he entered the house, he was like baby I have been perceiving this aroma from down the street 😅😅. I didn't mention names😅 Su Santi manya😀
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, 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. Egusi, or melon seeds, is a staple ingredient in many West African dishes and makes a great Start by grounding the egusi into a thick paste, then add the meat and veggies and simmer the soup until.
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