Recipe: Tasty Egusi soup

Egusi soup. It is a great soup for those who like to try something different every once in a while. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.

Nigerian Egusi Soup (Caking Method) [Video] Egusi and Ogbono Soup Combo How to cook egusi soup in simple steps Add ground melon to a bowl, add about a cup of water and mix to form a paste then set aside. Wash and chop the spinach, drain in a colander and set aside. Ground egusi (or pumpkin seeds) is the main ingredient. You can cook Egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egusi soup

1. It's 1 cup of egusi (ground).
2. It's 7 of fresh pepper.
3. Prepare 1 of onion bulb medium.
4. It's 2 tablespoon of crayfish(ground).
5. It's 1/4 cup of palm oil.
6. Prepare of １/4 cup stock finish.
7. You need of １kilo beef.
8. Prepare 4 cube of maggi.
9. Prepare to taste of Salt.
10. Prepare 1 bunch of pumpkin leaf.

Other ingredients include red palm oil, African crayfish, meats and fish, seasoning, hot pepper and some form of leafy greens. Nigerian Egusi Soup is made thick using ground melon seeds and leafy vegetables. It is one of the most popular soups prepared by many Nigerian tribes. The people eat it with dishes like Pounded Yam.

Egusi soup instructions

1. Wash pepper, onion and blend.wash pumpkin leaf and slice thinly..
2. Wash stockfish,beef with salt.Get a clean pot put add salt,maggi little water place on heat allow to boil for 15 min.
3. Add blended ingredient allow to boil for 5 min then add crayfish after 2 min add palm oil.
4. Pour the egusi in a plate add little into it stir and pour into the pot allow to boil for 7 min..
5. Add the pumpkin leaf stir together allow for 1 min egusi soup is ready..
6. Egusi soup is very delicious and easy to prepare can be eaten with semo,eba etc.

You can prepare egusi soup with goat, beef, fish, or shellfish! 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. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with slightly different approaches. Egusi is a West African name for the seeds of plants like squash, melons, and gourds that, when dried and ground become a staple ingredient in many West African dishes.