Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little 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. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.
Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Egusi soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Get 2 cups egusi
- Get Beef
- Prepare Fresh ice fish(as I don't know the name)
- Prepare 15 pcs Habanero pepper(atarodo)
- Prepare Crayfish (a handful)
- Get 2 stock cubes
- Take Stock fish
- Prepare Vegetables (ugu and Bitterleaf)
- Prepare 2 medium onions
- Take 1/2 cup palm oil
- Prepare to taste Salt
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. Egusi soup is a 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.
Instructions to make Egusi soup:
- Season your fish and with onion, salt and stock cubes. Allow to cook for about 10mins. Remove you fish, wash your stock fish and add in to the pot. Leave to simmer for about 5mins more.
- I set a pot with my oil on fire, add onion, fry till it's translucent and then pour in my pounded/blended tomatoes and pepper mix. Fry till it's dry and the sour taste is gone. Then pour in your meet stock and meat with stock fish
- I stirred together, and covered. Then bring to a boil. Mix your egwusi with an onion and cut in lumps tonight your soup. Cover and cook for about 15mins. Stir together and add your fish.
- Stir in your Bitterleaf first. Stir very well and pour your ugu leaf.add your crayfish, stir together and Your soup is ready
- Enjoy with akpu or any swallow of your choice 😍😍
Egusi soup is a 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, cooked vegetables, or grilled meat. 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!
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