Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup with eba. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Enjoy this creative version of the Nigerian Egusi soup and Eba. This recipe is made from Goat Meat with pieces of the dried salted Fish from Ghana, known as. A flash back to the Christmas Season when food enthusiast/TV Producer, Sophia Ejiofor prepared Eba (Cassava Flakes) with Egusi (Melon) and Ogbono soup.
Egusi soup with eba is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Egusi soup with eba is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup with eba using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup with eba:
- Take Melon
- Take Beef
- Get Stock fish
- Get Pumpkin leaf (ugwu)
- Take Fresh tomatoes and pepper
- Make ready Cray fish and seasoning
- Get Palm oil
- Prepare Onions
- Get Cassava flakes(garri)
In case you do not know, egusi soup is a very popular dish in West Africa. It is a thick soup made out of melon seeds (gourd, pumpkin and squash seeds are also used), and most people prefer to serve it with a side dish known as eba, which is made out of garri. Before preparing the soup, soak the dry fish and stock fish till soft. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
Instructions to make Egusi soup with eba:
- Cook meat with onions till soft and set aside.
- Fry tomatoes and pepper with pre heated palm oil
- Add water to the grinded melon to make a paste,add the paste in the fried tomatoes and mix together. Add the stock fish and cover to cook for a while
- Add the beef with stock,add crayfish and other seasoning. Add more water to loosen the soup a bit and cover yet again to cook
- Lastly add the pumpkin leaf and let it simmer for 5 mins. Your egusi soup is ready.
- Boil water and make EBA with cassava flakes and your meal is ready. You can also enjoy soup with other swallow.
So today I cooked Egusi soup and went to the streets of Saint Petersburg, Russia and asked Russians to try egusi and eba and tell me what they think about this our delicious and cuisine. Majority of them loved it but they all complained of pepper but apart from that they loved it. "Ifeyinwa and I grew up eating this - it's one of our childhood favourite dishes. It's a popular dish from the family of 'soups and swallows' which are a real staple in Nigerian households. Swallows are made from powdered or grated tubers, such as yam or cassava. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.
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