Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a Authentic dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Egusi soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:

1. Prepare 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu)
2. Prepare 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of cryfish
3. Prepare 1 bowl Iced fish
4. Get Small bowl of stockfish
5. Take Bowl kpomo (ganda)
6. Take 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper
7. Get 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices
8. Take 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa)
9. Take Handful Uziza leaves
10. Prepare 1 bowl red oil
11. Make ready Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
12. Prepare Oil to fry fish
13. Take Seasoning

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. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.

Instructions to make Egusi soup:

1. I am going to be detailed here with my step by step cooking method. Ingredients loading…..
2. ……. Roughly blend your onions and peppers. Share your spices and seasoning into 3 portions.
3. In a pot of water boil stock fish + kpomo + a portion of your seasoning and spices.+ Onions + Iru for 30 min. Then boil your blend with a portion of spices and seasoning+Cameroon pepper with Iru till dry.
4. Am going to fry my fish because is not a one time dine soup but am going to preserve it in the freezer, so I need my fish to be firm for a longer period.
5. Put Palm oil and fry onions for 2 min. Then add the egusi and stir fry(mind you stir fry if not it will get burnt) you will notice it getting formy,continue to stir
6. Add a portion of spices and seasoning, stir fry till the foam pipes down
7. Add the boiled kpomo and stockfish+dried fish and you can add water based on the consistency (thickness)you want and allow for 10 min
8. Add Uziza leaves (my Uziza 🤩 the scent is cloud 9) for 2 min
9. Add ugu and fried fish and allow simmer for 2 min
10. Then….
11. You know! When he entered the house, he was like baby I have been perceiving this aroma from down the street 😅😅. I didn't mention names😅 Su Santi manya😀

Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup, also called melon soup is an absolute delightful delicacy enjoyed all over West Africa. Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. Quick, easy and healthier Egusi soup, made with lots of spinach. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient.

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