Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a tasty dish, egusi (melon seed) soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Egusi (melon seed) soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Egusi (melon seed) soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd), which after being dried and ground are used as a major ingredient in West African cuisine. 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!

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have egusi (melon seed) soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:

1. Get 250 g melon seed (egusi)
2. Take 2 cubes stock seasoning
3. Take to taste Salt
4. Take 250 g palm oil
5. Take 1 bulb of red pepper
6. Make ready 1 onion bulb
7. Get Chilli pepper
8. Get Assorted meat and fish
9. Prepare Water
10. Make ready Vegetable of your choice

I hope you'll enjoy my mama's EGUSIS WITH ATAMA Leaves Soup recipe. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup. Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or roasted/fried before being ground.

Instructions to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:

1. Crush pepper and onion in a blender and set aside, wash melon seed with water and blend with some onion till you have a smooth paste. Wash and boil assorted meat and fish if using stockfish. Season meat to taste.
2. In a clean pot, pour in the red oil and some chopped onion, then the blended pepper leave to stem for about 3 minutes then pour in the boiled meat and fish, add the 2 cubes of stock powder taste for salt and cover the pot for it all to cook together for another 5 minutes. Add the blended melon seed and stir continuously to avoid burning at the bottom. If too thick you can add a bit of water and keep stiring for about 5-8minutes.
3. Add vegetable of your choice. I used chopped spinach in mine. The vegetable only needs to cook for about a minute and viola, soup is ready.

Egusi is made from melon seeds that grow primarily in the warm regions of Africa. Crush pepper and onion in a blender and set aside. The main ingredient is melon seed flour. Egusi is basically white pumpkin seeds though some people prefer to call it melon seeds. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup.

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