Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Egusi soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Get 4 tattashe(tattase)roughly blended
- Prepare 10 scotch bonnet roughly blended
- Make ready 4 small stock fish(soaked nd peeled)
- Make ready 12 pieces goat meat(cooked)
- Prepare 1 cup the Meat stock
- Get leaf N50 ugu
- Get N300 egusi
- Take 1 big onion(roughly blended)
- Prepare 1 fresh ginger greated
- Make ready Fresh mint leaf(chopped)
- Make ready 1 thyme(sachet)
- Make ready 2 onga(stew & classic)
- Prepare 5 seasoning cubes
- Make ready 1 pich salt(optional)
- Take 1 tspn Curry
- Take 1 tspn garam masala
- Take 1 cup palmoil
Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.
Steps to make Egusi soup:
- Here are the ingredients need to make this soup
- Start by adding ur palmoil in a Pot,allow to get a little hot then add ur meats,shallow fry them and then add ur pepper mix nd onion,
- Stir it in all together then add ur egusi nd stir,cover with a lid and allow it to fry on low heat for 5 mins,by frequent checking nd stirring
- Here it is after 5 mins,the egusi will start to be like tiny scrambled egg when fried proparly,then add ur stock fish
- Followed by ginger nd mint leaf,stir it in alltogether
- Then add ur meat stock and all the seasnonings nd spices,stir it in and fry on low heat for good 10mins by frequent stiring to avoid sticking
- Add ur ugu leaf nd stir it in,cover the pot and let it simmer for good 2 mins turn off heat nd your scrumptious,yummy,tasty amazing egusi soup is ready,serve with anything of ur choice💕🤗
Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. Quick, easy and healthier Egusi soup, made with lots of spinach. Egusi soup, also called melon soup is an absolute delightful delicacy enjoyed all over West Africa.
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