Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, 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 is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. Egusi Soup - Today I'm going to be showing you how to make Egusi soup since I made my last egg this would be a lot of you have been asking me to make.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Get 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu)
- Make ready 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of cryfish
- Take 1 bowl Iced fish
- Prepare Small bowl of stockfish
- Take Bowl kpomo (ganda)
- Make ready 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper
- Take 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices
- Prepare 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa)
- Prepare Handful Uziza leaves
- Make ready 1 bowl red oil
- Prepare Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
- Prepare Oil to fry fish
- Get Seasoning
Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors! See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
Steps to make Egusi soup:
- I am going to be detailed here with my step by step cooking method. Ingredients loading…..
- ……. Roughly blend your onions and peppers. Share your spices and seasoning into 3 portions.
- In a pot of water boil stock fish + kpomo + a portion of your seasoning and spices.+ Onions + Iru for 30 min. Then boil your blend with a portion of spices and seasoning+Cameroon pepper with Iru till dry.
- Am going to fry my fish because is not a one time dine soup but am going to preserve it in the freezer, so I need my fish to be firm for a longer period.
- Put Palm oil and fry onions for 2 min. Then add the egusi and stir fry(mind you stir fry if not it will get burnt) you will notice it getting formy,continue to stir
- Add a portion of spices and seasoning, stir fry till the foam pipes down
- Add the boiled kpomo and stockfish+dried fish and you can add water based on the consistency (thickness)you want and allow for 10 min
- Add Uziza leaves (my Uziza 🤩 the scent is cloud 9) for 2 min
- Add ugu and fried fish and allow simmer for 2 min
- Then….
- You know! When he entered the house, he was like baby I have been perceiving this aroma from down the street 😅😅. I didn't mention names😅 Su Santi manya😀
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