Egusi soup
Egusi soup

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Egusi soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
  1. Get Ata rodo (scotch bonnet peppers or habanero peppers
  2. Get Onions
  3. Make ready 2 cups Egusi seeds
  4. Make ready meat stock
  5. Make ready Ugwu (pumpkin) and waterleaf
  6. Make ready Locust beans
  7. Take crayfish, dry fish
  8. Make ready assorted meats and beef precooked and fried
  9. Take Salt
  10. Prepare cubes Seasoning

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.

Steps to make Egusi soup:
  1. Blend the red bell pepper, habanero pepper, crayfi and one onion with little water just enough to help the blender then set it aside
  2. Blend the ground Egusi and half of the onion into a thicker paste and set aside
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Add the Egusi paste in lumps to the pepper mixture and cook on low heat
  6. When the egusi begins to stick to the pot, stir and fry the it for about 5 mins, stir more frequently to prevent burning
  7. Add the meat stock. Taste and Adjust the seasoning. Allow to cook for for another 10 mins
  8. Add the fried meats and stir
  9. Add the chopped vegetable, turn off heat and slow residual heat cook the vegetable
  10. Serve with any swallow food of 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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