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Melon (Egusi) Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Melon (Egusi) Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have melon (egusi) soup using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Take 4 cups melon (as desired) blended smooothly
- Get 1 medium size Onion blended to a smooth paste with water
- Prepare Meats of your choice
- Get Stock fish
- Get Ponmo
- Make ready Locust bean
- Get Dry Catfish
- Prepare Meat stock
- Take cubes Seasoning
- Take Salt
- Prepare Fresh bonnet peppers blended
- Take Palm oil
- Prepare Crayfish blended with the melon
- Take pumpkin leafs sliced
It is a staple in most West African home and it is an uncomplicated one pot meal that is. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds and eaten with fufu dishes. It makes a wonderful and satisfying low carb dinner! Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup.
Instructions to make Melon (Egusi) Soup:
- Wash the meats and everything needed thoroughly. Cook the meat with the ponmo and stockfish together with seasoning cubes and salt. Drop from heat and sieve the stock. Set aside.
- Wash the dry Catfish thoroughly with warm water and set aside. - I used chicken for this melon soup and fried it lightly. I like my meats lightly fried for some soups.. The choice is yours
- Blend the pepper with water separately from the melon. - Pour the blended melon, crayfish in a bowl and add the blended onions. - Mix to combine and form a thick paste.
- Put the pot for the soup on fire. Add palm oil, the blended fresh peppers, - Allow to boil for like 2 minutes.
- Use your washed hands or spoon to cut lumps of the mixed melon into the boiling pepper Mix. Don't stir. Allow to fry for like 3minutes. Before stirring gently.
- Add the meat stock and locust bean. - If the meat water(stock) added is not enough to cook the soup, please add ordinary water. Gauge with your eyes. - - Allow to boil for some minutes until it molds. Then add your meat, fish, ponmo and other available fish..
- Stir gently, taste for seasoning cubes and salt. Add the pumpkin leafs and drop from heat.
In my few years as a food blogger and Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup. 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. Egusi is a seed that comes from a. Before preparing the egusi soup or egusi sauce, the sun-dried seeds are either ground plain or Peradventure you are keen on planting egusi melon by yourself, here are the easiest steps on how.
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