Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, melon (egusi) soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Melon (Egusi) Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Melon (Egusi) Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Egusi soup is a Nigerian soup that you can serve with all kind of food (all swallow & rice). Melon mixed with vegetable popularly known as efo elegusi/ osiki. Ground melon slowly cooked in sauce and mixed together with combination of spinach/collard.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook melon (egusi) soup using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Take 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
- Make ready Stock fish
- Prepare Ponmo
- Take Locust bean
- Get Dry Catfish
- Get Meat stock
- Take cubes Seasoning
- Take Salt
- Prepare Fresh bonnet peppers blended
- Prepare Palm oil
- Get Crayfish blended with the melon
- Take pumpkin leafs sliced
Egusi soup is a popular West African soup. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. It is a staple in most West African home and it is an uncomplicated one pot meal that is. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds and eaten.
Step by Step 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.
How to prepare Egusi Soup Egusi Soup - Nigerian Melon Seed Stew 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. 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. The main ingredient is melon seed flour.
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