Recipe: Delicious Egusi soup

Egusi soup. 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. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.

Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. You can cook Egusi soup using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Egusi soup

1. It's of Egusi (grinded with crayfish).
2. You need of Palm oil.
3. Prepare of Kpomo(boiled).
4. Prepare of Offals(boiled).
5. It's of Kayan miya.
6. It's of Maggi Star /naija pot.
7. Prepare of Egusi soup Spice.
8. You need leaf of Ogu.
9. It's of Dry fish.

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! See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.

Egusi soup step by step

1. Wash the tomatoes, onions, tattashe and red bonnet grind boil it and put it aside.
2. In another pot put oil and add the grinded mixture of tattashe, attaruhu etc.
3. Fry it for some minutes, add the meat and meat stock add the spice and Maggi add little salt.
4. Mix egusi with little water and add, close the pot and allow it to cook through for at least 30 minutes.
5. Wash the dry fish and keep aside, wash the ogu leave drain in a colander.
6. Add the fish and ogu and allow it to cooked for at least 10minutes.
7. Now ur egusi soup is ready to be served with semo or pounded yam.

Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds (egusi seeds) and eaten with fufu dishes. Egusi Soup - Nigerian Melon Seed Stew. Quick, easy and healthier Egusi soup, made with lots of spinach. Egusi, or melon seeds, is a staple ingredient in many West African dishes and makes a great thickening base for soups and stews.