Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, egusi (fried method). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Egusi Soup (Caking Method): I also call this one the Egusi Before Oil method. No frying is involved, making is a healthier way to prepare Egusi Soup. LUMPY EGUSI SOUP RECIPE (WITHOUT FRYING)
Egusi (fried method) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Egusi (fried method) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi (fried method) using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi (fried method):
- Prepare 2 cups egusi
- Take Deboned and parboiled dried fish
- Get 10 seeds Grinded fresh pepper
- Prepare Handful ugu leaves
- Prepare Very small freshly washed bitterleaves
- Take Palm oil
- Take Seasoning
- Make ready Salt
- Prepare Crayfish
- Get Parboiled beef/other parts
- Get Tiny diced onions
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, 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. Do you know how to cook Nigerian Egusi soup?
Instructions to make Egusi (fried method):
- Pour the pepper in a pot and add some of the meatstock and dried fish stock and let it cook until almost dried
- Add the crayfish,bitterleaves and parboiled meat and fish and stir gently not to scatter the fish
- In a bowl, add the grinded melon with pinch of salt and the diced onions
- Mold properly until it begins to produce oil
- Put a pot on fire and add palm oil on very low heat
- When it’s a bit hot, start cutting and adding the molded egusi (please this must be done on very low heat or it all goes bad!!!) take note
- Continue stir frying an add more palm oil to fry if needed.
- After about 8-10minutes of the egusi frying, turn of heat
- Light up the pepper mix and start scooping in the fried melon into it
- Scoop in large junks and leave for like 30secs before stirring. (Still on low heat or it burns)
- Then start stirring gently and the soup starts to fry with the oil from the fried egusi
- Continue frying for 5-6minutes
- The taste for seasoning and at this stage the egusi should have fried enough and formed seeds
- Then add little water to break up the soup dryness and lighten the reddish colour of the melon from frying in palm oil. Adjust seasoning. Sprinkle in the ugu and allow to cook for 2minutes
Keep on reading to know the How to cook Egusi soup with tomatoes? Even experienced chefs cannot often find the precise. Egusi soup ,also known as Obe Efo elegusi/ Ofe Egusi, is a delicious Nigerian soup that is made with ground melon seeds and enriched with assorted meat, fish and spices. Egusi is ground up shelled melon seed. Egusi is traditionally served with a starch.
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