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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. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. You can cook Fried Egusi soup using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Fried Egusi soup
- You need 2 cups of Egusi.
- Prepare of Scotch bonnet.
- It's of Onions.
- Prepare of Crayfish grinded.
- You need of Locust beans grounded.
- It's of Meats.
- It's of Stock fish.
- It's of Catfish.
- You need of Cow skin (kpomo).
- You need cubes of Seasoning.
- It's of Ginger and garlic.
- You need of Spices of choice.
- Prepare to taste of Salt.
- Prepare of Palm oil.
- You need of Black pepper.
- You need of Local nutmeg.
- You need of Stock or water as required.
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. 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!
Fried Egusi soup instructions
- In a medium sized bowl, mix egusi with warm water to form a smooth thick paste.
- Heat oil in a pot, add blended pepper, onion, ginger and garlic. Stir fry for 3min.scoop in the egusi paste as shown in the picture. Cover and allow it sit for few minutes.
- Spoon the mixture a bit and fry add the locust beans and crayfish and Keep frying until the oil is absorbed in the egusi.
- Meanwhile i already washed my meats and cook with some onions, seasonings, salt and spices (black pp n nutmeg) until soft and tender including the kpomo. Add the stock to the fried egusi along with the meat.
- Stir the mixture. Do not over spoon it. Adjust seasoning and salt to taste. Add your washed vegetables i used Amaranth in this recipe. You can add little water if required cover pot and allow it to simmer for few minutes. Serve with semovita, cornmeal, eba, akpu, pounded yam. Actually, i served mine with tuwon rice and it was so delicious.
- Enjoy..
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See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds (egusi seeds) and eaten with fufu dishes. Egusi Soup - Nigerian Melon Seed Stew. Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa. Finding new ingredients is just one of the joys of this culinary journey around the world.