Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a simple dish, pounded yam and egusi soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pounded yam and egusi soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pounded yam and egusi soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Egusi soup is popular in Western Africa. The soup is thickened with ground melon, gourd, or squash seeds. Look for the seeds in African or International grocery stores.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pounded yam and egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pounded yam and egusi soup:

1. Make ready Yam
2. Make ready Salt
3. Take Sugar
4. Take Water
5. Take Egusi soup
6. Get Egusi seed powder
7. Take Red oil
8. Take Spices
9. Make ready Seasonings
10. Make ready Grated onion and red pepper
11. Get Spring onion
12. Make ready Veg leaves of ur choice
13. Get Stock meat

I like it best when it is served with egusi soup. Most folks outside the shores of Nigeria are yet to completely grasp the idea behind pounding yam. On this page, I want to tell you everything you will. There's nothing quite like egusi soup.

Instructions to make Pounded yam and egusi soup:

1. For the pounded yam: peel the yam and cut into medium size. Wash and settle in a cooking pot. Add water to cover the. yam and add salt and sugar to balance the taste. Boil for about 15-20 mins and turn off the heat, be sure that the water is not completely dried because you will need them while pounding
2. Pick with a fork and transfer in to mortar and go ahead and pound wit pestle. Pound until the yam are seedless and can easily be molded, you can add warm water(preferably used water from boiling the yam) and pound until u have a smooth soft pounded yam.
3. You can mold as you wish but i use plastic containers wit little vegetable oil inside. Fill the container with the pounded yam and gently pull out to achieve the desired shape.
4. For the egusi soup: place the red oil in a clean pot and add little grated onion, let it saute for some second and add the grated red pepper and onion. Fry until it change the colour and add egusi powder, turn continuously until the aroma start knocking ur nose😃.
5. Add spices, seasonings, spring onion and stock meat
6. Turn well and cover for 15 minutes while stirring occasionally. Add sliced vegetable leaves of ur choice
7. Let it cook for some minutes and serve
8. It's oll about team6😃 enjoy 🥰🥰

Almost every family has their own variation of this truly Nigerian dish - try ours for a guaranteed winner! Using a spoon, scoop up the egusi and place in the pot of. In a recent video shared on Zion's official Instagram page, he was seen eating the popular Nigerian delicacy, Pounded yam and Egusi soup with his dad. Fans trooped to his comment section to commend the singer for exposing his son to the Yoruba culture while others have gushed over Zion's. Preferably do this the day before so making One famous way of eating egusi soup is with pounded yam - a dough-like side dish made out of pounded (or ground) African white yam.

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