Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, egusi (melon seed) soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd). Egusi soup is really not a soup at all, much more like a stew but it has superb flavor. I love trying new ingredients egusi seeds are delicous!
Egusi (melon seed) soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Egusi (melon seed) soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi (melon seed) soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:
- Take 250 g melon seed (egusi)
- Make ready 2 cubes stock seasoning
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Get 250 g palm oil
- Make ready 1 bulb of red pepper
- Take 1 onion bulb
- Get Chilli pepper
- Get Assorted meat and fish
- Make ready Water
- Prepare Vegetable of your choice
Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup. Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or roasted/fried before being ground. Ground Egusi (melon) seeds are used to prepare this Nigerian soup recipe with an intercontinental taste.
Instructions to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:
- Crush pepper and onion in a blender and set aside, wash melon seed with water and blend with some onion till you have a smooth paste. Wash and boil assorted meat and fish if using stockfish. Season meat to taste.
- In a clean pot, pour in the red oil and some chopped onion, then the blended pepper leave to stem for about 3 minutes then pour in the boiled meat and fish, add the 2 cubes of stock powder taste for salt and cover the pot for it all to cook together for another 5 minutes. Add the blended melon seed and stir continuously to avoid burning at the bottom. If too thick you can add a bit of water and keep stiring for about 5-8minutes.
- Add vegetable of your choice. I used chopped spinach in mine. The vegetable only needs to cook for about a minute and viola, soup is ready.
It has been known to be enjoyed by people from all parts of the world. Egusi (melon) seeds are readily available in the open Nigerian markets or African food stores all over the world. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. This recipe will show you how to make Nigerian Egusi Soup, a popular West African soup made with melon seeds. Egusi Soup is a soup made with a white kind of pumpkin seeds (obtainable from African stores or Amazon.com).
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