Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, melon (egusi) soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little 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 well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Melon (Egusi) Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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
- Get 1 medium size Onion blended to a smooth paste with water
- Make ready Meats of your choice
- Take Stock fish
- Prepare Ponmo
- Get Locust bean
- Make ready Dry Catfish
- Get Meat stock
- Get cubes Seasoning
- Take Salt
- Get Fresh bonnet peppers blended
- Make ready Palm oil
- Get Crayfish blended with the melon
- Make ready pumpkin leafs sliced
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Instructions 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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