Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Egusi soup

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, egusi soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Egusi soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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 tobe showing you how to make Egusi soupsince I made my last egg this would be alot of you have been asking me to makeanother. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:

1. Prepare Ata rodo (scotch bonnet peppers or habanero peppers
2. Get Onions
3. Get 2 cups Egusi seeds
4. Make ready meat stock
5. Get Ugwu (pumpkin) and waterleaf
6. Get Locust beans
7. Make ready crayfish, dry fish
8. Get assorted meats and beef precooked and fried
9. Take Salt
10. Make ready cubes Seasoning

Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup is a soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient. Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous (squash, melon, gourd) plants. Egusi soup is common and prevalent across Central Africa, and may be served atop rice, cooked vegetables, or grilled meat.

Instructions to make Egusi soup:

1. Blend the red bell pepper, habanero pepper, crayfi and one onion with little water just enough to help the blender then set it aside
2. Blend the ground Egusi and half of the onion into a thicker paste and set aside
3. Heat up palm oil, poured chopped onions and fry for about 1 minute, then add the washed locust bean and stir for another 1 minute. Add the rinsed fried fish
4. Pour in the blended bell pepper/habanero/onion mix and stir. Add salt and seasoning cubes. Cook the pepper mix until reduced to a loose paste
5. Add the Egusi paste in lumps to the pepper mixture and cook on low heat
6. When the egusi begins to stick to the pot, stir and fry the it for about 5 mins, stir more frequently to prevent burning
7. Add the meat stock. Taste and Adjust the seasoning. Allow to cook for for another 10 mins
8. Add the fried meats and stir
9. Add the chopped vegetable, turn off heat and slow residual heat cook the vegetable
10. Serve with any swallow food of choice

Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous (squash, melon, gourd) plants. Egusi soup is common and prevalent across Central Africa, and may be served atop rice, cooked vegetables, or grilled meat. 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. Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds.

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