Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a tasty dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Egusi soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Egusi soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:

1. Get leaves Ugu
2. Prepare Egusi
3. Make ready Scotch bonnets
4. Prepare Pepper
5. Prepare Tomatoes
6. Make ready Onions
7. Make ready Local spices: Locust beans (daddawa and kulkulen miya)
8. Get Seasonings
9. Take Dry fish
10. Get Beef
11. Prepare Palm oil
12. Take Cray fish

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.

Steps to make Egusi soup:

1. Firstly wash the tomatoes, pepper, scotch bonnets and onions, then blend
2. Wash and cut the ugu leaves
3. In a pot add palm oil and pour the blended veggies, and fry, in another pot wash and put the beef with seasonings and boil till tender, then pour in the other pot
4. Add water, seasonings and spices, grind the egusi and cray fish
5. Let the soup boil till it reduces, then pour the ugu leaves,and dry fish, in a bowl put your grinded egusi and put a little amount of water and mix well, then put on top of the ugu leaves without turning and close
6. After some minutes your egusi soup will be ready, serve with any swallow of ur choice, I served mine with pounded yam.

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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