Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, egusi (melon seed) soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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), which after being dried and ground are used as a major ingredient in West African cuisine. 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 well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Egusi (melon seed) soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have egusi (melon seed) soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:
- Get 250 g melon seed (egusi)
- Make ready 2 cubes stock seasoning
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 250 g palm oil
- Make ready 1 bulb of red pepper
- Make ready 1 onion bulb
- Make ready Chilli pepper
- Make ready Assorted meat and fish
- Get Water
- Take Vegetable of your choice
It is usually used as a thickener for meat or fish broth simmered to create an amazing dish of egusi often paired with eba, pounded yam, tuwo, banku and many others. Everything you need to know about this Recipe can be viewed in the video. I hope you'll enjoy my mama's EGUSIS WITH ATAMA Leaves Soup recipe. Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or roasted/fried before being ground.
Steps 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.
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. This soup is native to West Africa (Nigeria) and many of my American as well as Nigerian friends have enjoyed it. It is a great soup for those who like to try something different Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.
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