Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. It is a staple in most West African home and it is an uncomplicated one pot meal that is often accompanied with swallows like Eba.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi soup using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Make ready 2 cups Egusi
- Make ready 1 cup Ugwu (pumpkin leaf)
- Make ready 1/2 cup Efinrin (scent leaf)
- Make ready 3 tbs Pepper mix
- Take 1tbs Iru (locust beans)
- Get 1 Onions
- Prepare 1 cksp Palmoil
- Take 1 cksp Crayfish
- Make ready 2 cups Goatmeat/Beef
- Prepare 1/2 cup Stock fish
- Make ready 3 Seasoning cubes
- Take Salt to taste
Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient.
Instructions to make Egusi soup:
- Wash the Ugwu and efirin. Then cut them as you like either in big chunks or tiny strips. I like mine finely chopped.
- In a pot, put in your beef/goatmeat and stock fish (I don't soak my stock fish because I feel it looses taste that way but if you soak yours then no need to boil it with the meats), season and allow to boil.
- When the meat is tender, pour in your pepper and Iru then allow to cook for about 5mins. At this stage the water content from the stock would have mixed up with the pepper and would have reduced. You don't want a watery soup so please pay attention to this.
- In a bowl pour your egusi, crayfish and dice in onions with a little water to form a paste. Then pour in this paste into the pot of meat and pepper. After pouring it in, add the vegetable, then 1-2 spoons of palmoil. Lower the heat and cover the pot.
- After about 2mins, open the pot and stir in well. Correct the seasoning then cover and allow to cook for 3-4mins before turning off the heat. Your egusi soup is ready to be served. Enjoy!
Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient. Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous (squash, melon, gourd) plants. Egusi soup is common and prevalent across Central Africa, and may be served atop rice. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
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