Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Egusi soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Make ready 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu)
- Make ready 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of cryfish
- Get 1 bowl Iced fish
- Get Small bowl of stockfish
- Prepare Bowl kpomo (ganda)
- Take 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper
- Prepare 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices
- Make ready 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa)
- Take Handful Uziza leaves
- Take 1 bowl red oil
- Get Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
- Take 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.
Instructions 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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