Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Egusi soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
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 begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:
- Prepare 3 milk cups of raw melon
- Make ready Yellow pepper (nsukka pepper)
- Prepare Shonbo
- Prepare Half bulb of onion
- Get Dry fish
- Get Goatmeat, beef and kpomo
- Make ready Stock fish
- Get Blended crayfish
- Prepare 35 cl palm oil
- Make ready Ogiri okpei for local flavour
- Take 1 hand full of wash bitter leaf
- Prepare leaves Ugu
- Make ready cubes Knor
- Get Benny stock powder for seasoning meat
- Make ready to taste Salt
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Steps to make Egusi soup:
- Blend your melon in a dry mill, then soak in blended onion and water
- Season your meat with knor cubes and Benny then boil till tender, half way boiling your meat, throw in your stock fish into the meat.
- Blend your fresh pepper and shonbo then fry separately in palm oil
- Heat palm oil in another cooking pot, then add your blended melon, start to fry and stir with care so you don't break up its lump, fry for about twenty minutes on low heat, then combine with your fried pepper and shonbo, then continue frying for few more minutes
- Pour in your meat and meat stock, add a little more water if necessary and continue cooking
- Add your crayfish, ogiri, dry fish and bitter leaf
- Cook till the soup thickens, taste and adjust the taste.
- Add ugu leaves, cook for few seconds then bring down
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