Learn How to make Egusi soup
Learn How to make Egusi soup

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How To make Egusi soup In Nigeria, Learn To make this delicious Nigerian soup. Also Learn about all the ingredients used and more about other Nigerian soups. This recipe shows you how to prepare Egusi soup with lumps, the kind you only find in posh restaurants and eateries. Egusi Soup - Today I'm going tobe showing you how to make Egusi soupsince I made my last egg this would be alot of you have been asking me to makeanother.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook learn how to make egusi soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Learn How to make Egusi soup:
  1. Take 5 cups (550 g) Egusi (Melon) seeds
  2. Get Palm oil : Half litre
  3. Make ready Protein : Beef,kpomo,Cow leg, Shaki (cow tripe),Fish: dry fish
  4. Get Ground crayfish
  5. Make ready Pepper : Yellow pepper preferably or Red pepper /black pepper
  6. Get to taste Salt
  7. Prepare Onions
  8. Make ready Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leaves aka ugwu or bitter leaf
  9. Prepare Stock cubes to taste (3 - 5)
  10. Get Tin tomatoes (optional)
  11. Prepare 1 small ogiri okpei (optional)
  12. Prepare Onga soup spice (1-2 satchets)

To cook egusi soup, start by making the egusi paste. For tips about how to serve the egusi soup, keep reading! If you've always wanted to learn how to make this popular Nigerian soup, check out the easy to follow steps below. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.

Instructions to make Learn How to make Egusi soup:
  1. Wash your protein of choice, stock fish,Kpomo,dry fish. Put in a clean pot then spice it with sliced onions and stock cube. Cook it till meat is soft. Then bring down from fire.
  2. Pour the red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil melts(don't allow it bleach,it should just turn translucent),add the sliced onions and tin tomatoes,fry for sometime,add the ground egusi,pepper and iru to the mix,then fry. Mix the ground egusi with oil till every grain of egusi turns yellow.
  3. Stir the egusi on low to medium heat. Keep stir-frying for about 10 minutes.
  4. Add the meat/fish stock (water from cooking the fish and meat) then stir the egusi. still too thick, you can add hot water in the same way till you get the consistency you want. If your choice of vegetable is bitter leaf, add it at this time.
  5. Cover the pot and cook for 20 minutes, stirring at intervals. Also, top up the water when necessary. If you don't stir it, it will burn. Cooking time for egusi soup is 30 minutes, else the soup will not taste nice. Also, egusi that is not cooked long enough may cause upset stomach. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has separated from the mix. Then add your meat and stockfish
  6. Add the ground crayfish(reason it's added now is so it doesn't burn the soup). Stir and add the Nigerian pumpkin leaves  (if that is what your using, You could also use both)
  7. Add your seasoning, salt if necessary. If it is too thick, add some water to bring it to a consistency you like. - 9. Cover and leave to simmer and it is done! - It's perfect with Pounded Yam. You can also serve it with Eba (Garri), Amala, Semolina Fufu,  or Cassava Fufu.

If you've always wanted to learn how to make this popular Nigerian soup, check out the easy to follow steps below. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. Nigerian Egusi soup na soup wey dey thickened wit ground melon seeds wit oda vegetables. Na one of di most popular soups wey most tribes for Nigeria dey prepare wit different styles. You fit cook am wit goat meat, beef or fish.

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