Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a tasty dish, learn how to make egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This soup is native to West Africa (Nigeria) and many of my American as well as Nigerian friends have enjoyed it. It is a great soup for those who like to try something different I asked my sister-in-law over the following weekend to show me how to make real egusi soup.and it's NOTHING like this recipe. How to make Nigerian Egusi soup

Learn How to make Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Learn How to make Egusi soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have learn how to make egusi soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Learn How to make Egusi soup:

1. Prepare 5 cups (550 g) Egusi (Melon) seeds
2. Take Palm oil : Half litre
3. Take Protein : Beef,kpomo,Cow leg, Shaki (cow tripe),Fish: dry fish
4. Get Ground crayfish
5. Make ready Pepper : Yellow pepper preferably or Red pepper /black pepper
6. Get to taste Salt
7. Get Onions
8. Make ready Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leaves aka ugwu or bitter leaf
9. Make ready Stock cubes to taste (3 - 5)
10. Prepare Tin tomatoes (optional)
11. Prepare 1 small ogiri okpei (optional)
12. Get Onga soup spice (1-2 satchets)

Thank you for the only recipe that explained! "." more. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. It is a staple in most West African I have made one Egusi recipe before and ever since I made that version of Egusi soup, I've gotten a lot of requests to make another version of the recipe.

Instructions to make Learn How to make Egusi soup:

1. Wash your protein of choice, stock fish,Kpomo,dry fish. Put in a clean pot then spice it with sliced onions and stock cube. Cook it till meat is soft. Then bring down from fire.
2. Pour the red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil melts(don't allow it bleach,it should just turn translucent),add the sliced onions and tin tomatoes,fry for sometime,add the ground egusi,pepper and iru to the mix,then fry. Mix the ground egusi with oil till every grain of egusi turns yellow.
3. Stir the egusi on low to medium heat. Keep stir-frying for about 10 minutes.
4. Add the meat/fish stock (water from cooking the fish and meat) then stir the egusi. still too thick, you can add hot water in the same way till you get the consistency you want. If your choice of vegetable is bitter leaf, add it at this time.
5. Cover the pot and cook for 20 minutes, stirring at intervals. Also, top up the water when necessary. If you don't stir it, it will burn. Cooking time for egusi soup is 30 minutes, else the soup will not taste nice. Also, egusi that is not cooked long enough may cause upset stomach. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has separated from the mix. Then add your meat and stockfish
6. Add the ground crayfish(reason it's added now is so it doesn't burn the soup). Stir and add the Nigerian pumpkin leaves  (if that is what your using, You could also use both)
7. Add your seasoning, salt if necessary. If it is too thick, add some water to bring it to a consistency you like. - 9. Cover and leave to simmer and it is done! - It's perfect with Pounded Yam. You can also serve it with Eba (Garri), Amala, Semolina Fufu,  or Cassava Fufu.

Would you like to learn how to prepare a delicious pot of Egusi soup? Egusi is the Local name for protein-rich seeds of used to make Egusi Soup when dried and grounded. i wan learn how igbo people dey make their egusi soup call all ethnicity mehn. igbo people how una dey make una egusi delta folks tell me how una dey make una own too. yoruba calabar hausa bini. please sign in make we discuss some correct egusi soup techniques. Egusi soup is one of the most popular soups in Nigeria. The dish prepared by most Nigerian tribes in some variation or the other. Follow our simple recipe to learn how to make egusi soup.

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