Egusi Soup
Egusi Soup

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Egusi Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are 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 begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi Soup:
  1. Get 2 cup Egusi blended
  2. Get 2 cksp palm oil
  3. Get 2 fresh tomatoes
  4. Make ready 5 fresh pepper
  5. Get cow leg
  6. Take perinwinkle
  7. Take kpomo
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp crayfish blended
  9. Prepare to taste salt
  10. Prepare spinach leaf sliced
  11. Get 2 knorr cube

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. Wash cow leg and spiced then parboiled and cook once till it's tender set aside
  2. Dice or blend tomatoes and pepper and set aside
  3. Heat up medium pot and add palm oil, once its hot, add blended tomatoes and pepper paste and allow it fry for 4 to 5 minutes
  4. Mix blended egusi with little water and turn it into a paste, pour into the pot and stir continuously for 5 to 8 minutes,
  5. Add crayfish, periwinkle, salt and knorr cube then add cooked cow leg; stir everything together, cover pot and leave it on low heat for another 5 minutes,
  6. Add dice spinach leaf stir and turn off heat almost immediately; and serve with 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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