Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, melon (egusi) soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Melon (Egusi) Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Melon (Egusi) Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.
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 unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have melon (egusi) soup using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Get 4 cups melon (as desired) blended smooothly
- Take 1 medium size Onion blended to a smooth paste with water
- Make ready Meats of your choice
- Prepare Stock fish
- Make ready Ponmo
- Make ready Locust bean
- Take Dry Catfish
- Prepare Meat stock
- Make ready cubes Seasoning
- Get Salt
- Take Fresh bonnet peppers blended
- Take Palm oil
- Make ready Crayfish blended with the melon
- Take pumpkin leafs sliced
Egusi is a seed that comes from a. Egusi Soup is a rich Nigerian soup made from melon seeds and traditionally eaten with high-carb fufu dishes like pounded yam. Enjoy egusi soup with low carb fufu on your keto diet for a healthy meal! Egusi soup also known as melon soup in Nigeria can be.
Instructions to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Wash the meats and everything needed thoroughly. Cook the meat with the ponmo and stockfish together with seasoning cubes and salt. Drop from heat and sieve the stock. Set aside.
- Wash the dry Catfish thoroughly with warm water and set aside. I used chicken for this melon soup and fried it lightly. I like my meats lightly fried for some soups.. The choice is yours
- Blend the pepper with water separately from the melon. Pour the blended melon, crayfish in a bowl and add the blended onions. Mix to combine and form a thick paste.
- Put the pot for the soup on fire. Add palm oil, the blended fresh peppers, Allow to boil for like 2 minutes.
- Use your washed hands or spoon to cut lumps of the mixed melon into the boiling pepper Mix. Don't stir. Allow to fry for like 3minutes. Before stirring gently.
- Add the meat stock and locust bean. If the meat water(stock) added is not enough to cook the soup, please add ordinary water. Gauge with your eyes.
Allow to boil for some minutes until it molds. Then add your meat, fish, ponmo and other available fish..
- Stir gently, taste for seasoning cubes and salt. Add the pumpkin leafs and drop from heat.
Egusi soup cooked with green vegetables is very nutritious. I can take the soup alone without foo foo or any swallow and still feel full. 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. Egusi soup is an appetizing soup to behold.
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