Egusi with bitter leaf
Egusi with bitter leaf

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egusi with bitter leaf. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi with bitter leaf is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Egusi with bitter leaf is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Egusi Soup Recipe: How To Cook Egusi Soup with Bitter leaf & Spinach. Egusi Soup is a Nigerian Soup which is made with melon seeds and enriched with spices and vegetables. It can be prepared with leafy vegetables, such as ugwu(fluted pumpkin leaves), bitter leaf, spinach and the likes.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi with bitter leaf using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi with bitter leaf:
  1. Get 3 cups egusi
  2. Prepare Salt
  3. Take 2 cksp Palmoil
  4. Prepare 2 handful bitterleaf
  5. Take 3 teaspoon Ofo
  6. Make ready 2 cksp Crayfish
  7. Prepare 5 pieces Fresh pepper
  8. Get 3 cubes Maggi
  9. Take 1/2 kg Meat(assorted)
  10. Get 1 Stockfish
  11. Get 1 onion

I call it sweet-bitter leaf because I can't stand that bitter taste so I ensure it is all squeezed out until the sweet taste comes out of the veggies, sometimes like SOFTENING EGUSI SOUP WITH OGBONO For people like me who like this soup a bit slimy, just grind like two to three seeds of ogbono (or more. Egusi(Melon seed) NB not water melon. EGUSI PASTE Add the bitter leaf. Egusi is traditionally served with a starch.

Steps to make Egusi with bitter leaf:
  1. Wash the bitter leaf with salt twice each at least 2minutes to remove dirt.
  2. Boil the meat and stockfish,with maggi cubes,salt and onion.
  3. Onces is tender,pour in 4cups of water and palmoil and cover it to boil for 5mins.
  4. Then mix the blended egusi with water form a paste a bit watery and pour in.
  5. Cover to boil for 20minutes.add ofo and stir very well to avoid the ofo forming lumps.
  6. Boil for 5minutes,add crayfish,salt,fresh pepper and maggi cubes.
  7. After 8 more minutes rinse the bitter leaf and add.boil for 2minutes and the soup is ready.

Possible starch options include Iyan (Pounded yam), Garri (fermented cassava), elubo (fermented yam) or semolina. Great choices are tete (calallo), spinach, ugu (fluted pumpkin leaf), ewuro (bitter leaf), Gbure (water leaf), amunututu (malabar spinach), kale. Egusi Soup can be prepared in different ways in various tribes. Different flavours can be achieved by adding some interesting elements, like Uzuza, Fluted Pumpkin, Water leaf, Afang or bitter leaf. The best ways to prepare Egusi Soup would be with bitter or Water leaves as the soup tastes best with.

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