Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fried egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Fried Egusi soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Fried Egusi soup is something that I have loved my whole life.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook fried egusi soup using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Fried Egusi soup:
- Get 2 cups Egusi
- Prepare Scotch bonnet
- Make ready Onions
- Make ready Crayfish grinded
- Get Locust beans grounded
- Get Meats
- Take Stock fish
- Prepare Catfish
- Make ready Cow skin (kpomo)
- Make ready cubes Seasoning
- Make ready Ginger and garlic
- Get Spices of choice
- Get to taste Salt
- Get Palm oil
- Make ready Black pepper
- Get Local nutmeg
- Get Stock or water as required
Egusi soup, also called melon soup is an absolute delightful delicacy enjoyed all over West Africa. Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. 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.
Steps to make Fried Egusi soup:
- 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.
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. I used to think egusi soup was very complicated growing up. and so I never really used to cook it. However, most people fry the paste (I will show how to make it into a paste) in oil first, before adding. Egusi is one the most widely consumed soups in Nigeria, it's prepared by most tribes.
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