Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, melon (egusi) soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. Hey Guys, Here's how to make one of Nigeria's favorite dishes.
Melon (Egusi) Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Melon (Egusi) Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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 melon (as desired) blended smooothly
- Get medium size Onion blended to a smooth paste with water
- Prepare Meats of your choice
- Prepare Stock fish
- Get Ponmo
- Take Locust bean
- Prepare Dry Catfish
- Make ready Meat stock
- Take Seasoning
- Get Salt
- Make ready Fresh bonnet peppers blended
- Make ready Palm oil
- Take Crayfish blended with the melon
- Get pumpkin leafs sliced
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Steps 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 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. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds and eaten with fufu dishes. Egusi is made from melon seeds that grow primarily in the warm regions of Africa. A serving of delicious ugwu melon egusi soup.
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