Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup/melon soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. It is usually used as a thickener for meat or fish broth simmered to create an amazing dish of egusi often paired with eba, pounded yam, tuwo, banku and many others. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup.
Egusi soup/melon soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Egusi soup/melon soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup/melon soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup/melon soup:
- Make ready grounded egusi
- Get cray fish
- Prepare Dried fish
- Make ready Meat
- Prepare Seasoning
- Prepare Salt
- Get Palm oil
- Prepare Red bell pepper(tattasai)
- Get Pepper (attarugu)
- Get Onions
- Prepare Ugu
Egusi soup is really not a soup at all, much more like a stew but it has superb flavor. I love trying new ingredients egusi seeds are delicous! Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa. Finding new ingredients is just one of the joys of this culinary journey around the.
Steps to make Egusi soup/melon soup:
- Make a thick paste with your ground egusi,make them into balls
- Put 1 cooking spoon of palm oil in a pan heat it with some onions add in your egusi balls and fry them on low heat,you don’t have to turn them constantly to avoid them from been breaking
- After your egusi balls are fried you removed them from oil gently to avoid them from breaking
- Add some oil if their is need for that,fry your grained pepper mix,after frying them you add your stock,meat,crayfish and fish,let them simmer for some minutes
- You now add inn your fried egusi ball into the soup and allow it to cook for some few min with out turning it,finally add ur chopped ugu and cover to simmer for 3 to 5min and ur egusi soup is ready to be served with tuwo or any swallow of your choice
This west African melon soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. It is very easy to make. I have made one Egusi recipe before and ever since I made that version of Egusi soup, I've gotten a lot of requests to make another version of the recipe. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds and eaten with fufu dishes. It makes a wonderful and satisfying low carb dinner!
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