Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, egusi (melon soup). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Melon mixed with vegetable popularly known as efo elegusi/ osiki. Ground melon slowly cooked in sauce and mixed together with combination of spinach/collard. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.
Egusi (melon soup) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Egusi (melon soup) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have egusi (melon soup) using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi (melon soup):
- Take 2 cups Egusi
- Get leaf Ugu (pumpkin)
- Take Osu (for thickening)
- Prepare Palm oil (red oil)
- Make ready Okpenyi (dried oil bean seed)
- Make ready Seasoning
- Get Chicken or beef
- Take Stock fish
- Make ready Crayfush
- Make ready Salt
Egusi seeds: Egusi (melon seeds) are usually sold in African stores. Meat: African soups are mostly cooked with an assortment. Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa. Finding new ingredients is just one of the joys of this culinary journey around the world.
Steps to make Egusi (melon soup):
- Grind melon seeds with the Osu, okpenyi, crayfish and set aside
- Cut the Ugu (pumpkin) leaf and set aside.
- Cook the chicken or beef with stockfish until almost soft not soft
- Add the grinded melon. The OSU in the melon will make it look thicker. Make sure you stir properly so it doesn't burn.
- The melon is done when signs of water has almost disappeared.
- Add some water to get your desired consistency. Add salt (please very little - melon is sensitive to salt) and a seasoning cube.
- Allow to cook for about five minutes then add the vegetable.
- After the vegetable has cooked for 2 minutes, please turn off the heat so the vegetables doesn't get darker.
- Serve your soup with either semolina fufu or any other type of your choice.
Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa. Finding new ingredients is just one of the joys of this culinary journey around the world. Egusi is a seed that comes from a. Egusi Melon Farming, also called "wild watermelon," is grown throughout Nigeria and Congo for its seeds, which are high in protein and carbohydrates. In Nigeria, it often grows wild.
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