Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, egusi (melon seed) soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. 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). 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 current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Egusi (melon seed) soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have egusi (melon seed) soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:
- Take 250 g melon seed (egusi)
- Prepare 2 cubes stock seasoning
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare 250 g palm oil
- Prepare 1 bulb of red pepper
- Prepare 1 onion bulb
- Take Chilli pepper
- Make ready Assorted meat and fish
- Take Water
- Take Vegetable of your choice
It can be eaten with white rice, Eba(garri), semovita etc. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. This recipe will show you how to make Nigerian Egusi Soup, a popular West African soup made with melon seeds. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup.
Instructions 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.
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. Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or roasted/fried before being ground. Ground Egusi (melon) seeds are used to prepare this Nigerian soup recipe with an intercontinental taste. It has been known to be enjoyed by people from all parts of the world. Egusi (melon) seeds are readily available in the open Nigerian markets or African food stores all over the world.
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