How to Cook Recipe: Delicious Egusi soup

Egusi soup. 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. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.

It is one of the most popular soups prepared by most tribes in Nigeria with considerable variation and often eaten with dishes like Pounded Yams. Prepare it with goat, beef, fish, or shellfish! Nigerian Egusi Soup Recipes Nigerian Egusi Soup The Nigerian Egusi soup, prepared with melon seeds, is prepared by most tribes in Nigeria in many different ways. You can cook Egusi soup using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egusi soup

1. You need of red cow meat.
2. Prepare of cow skin.
3. It's of cow shaki.
4. It's of onion.
5. You need of knorr cube.
6. You need of Ugwu fluted pumpkin.
7. Prepare of palmoil.
8. You need of milk cups of egusi.
9. It's of crayfish.
10. You need of cameroun pepper.
11. It's of Salt.

It is known as Miyan Gushi in Hausa, Ofe Egusi in Igbo and Efo Elegusi in Yoruba. Nigerian Egusi Soup (Caking Method) [Video] Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. It is a staple in most West African home and it is an uncomplicated one pot meal that is often accompanied with swallows like Eba, Amala, Semovita, Pounded yam, Fufu, and the likes. Some hardcore like I am will even serve over Rice.

Egusi soup instructions

1. Wash and cut all the meat types into bits. Add salt and cut up the onion and place on heat for about 45mins till soft.
2. Cut up ugwu into bits. Add palmoil then egusi blended mixture of pepper egusi and egusi.
3. Allow to simmer and serve.

Egusi soup is a kind of soup thickened with the ground seeds and popular in West Africa, with considerable local variation. Besides the seeds, water, and oil, egusi soup typically contains leaf vegetables, palm oil, other vegetables, seasonings, and meat. Leaf vegetables typically used for egusi soup include bitterleaf, pumpkin leaf, celosia and spinach. 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.

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