Recipe: Tasty Egusi Soup

Egusi Soup. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders This soup is native to West Africa (Nigeria) and many of my American as well as Nigerian friends have enjoyed it. It is a great soup for those who like to try something different every once in a while. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor.

It is known as Miyan Gushi in Hausa, Ofe Egusi in Igbo and Efo Elegusi in Yoruba. Nigerian Egusi Soup (Caking Method) [Video] Egusi and Ogbono Soup Combo How to cook egusi soup in simple steps Add ground melon to a bowl, add about a cup of water and mix to form a paste then set aside. Wash and chop the spinach, drain in a colander and set aside. You can cook Egusi Soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egusi Soup

1. You need 3 cups of egusi.
2. Prepare 2 bunch of ugu leaf.
3. It's 1/2 of cksp dry pepper.
4. Prepare 1 head of stock fish.
5. It's 1 of dry fish.
6. Prepare 1 kg of Meat.
7. It's of pomo.
8. It's 3 of cksp Palmoil.
9. You need 1 of cksp Crayfish.
10. It's 3 cubes of knorr.
11. It's to taste of Salt.

Ground egusi (or pumpkin seeds) is the main ingredient. Other ingredients include red palm oil, African crayfish, meats and fish, seasoning, hot pepper and some form of leafy greens. Nigerian Egusi Soup is made thick using ground melon seeds and leafy vegetables. It is one of the most popular soups prepared by many Nigerian tribes.

Egusi Soup instructions

1. Wash the meat and stockfish with salt. boil the meat and stockfish with salt, knorr, pepper and blend egusi in a blender till is paste.
2. Heat up pot and pour in palmoil, bleach for 2mins then pour in the blended egusi and stir very well and leave it to fry. Fry for 5mins but please don't leave it burn; do stir at intervals.
3. Pour in the boiled meat, pomo and stockfish, stir and cover the pot and boil after 10mins, add crayfish, dryfish, pepper, knorr and salt..
4. Wash and dice uGu leaf; add uGu leaf into the soup. stir and allow it cook for a minute and remove from heat.
5. Serve with any swallow of your choice.

The people eat it with dishes like Pounded Yam. You can prepare egusi soup with goat, beef, fish, or shellfish! 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. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with slightly different approaches.