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How To make Egusi soup In Nigeria, Learn To make this delicious Nigerian soup. Egusi Soup is a Nigerian Soup which is made with melon seeds and enriched with spices and vegetables. Below is my grandma's favorite, a recipe prepared with bitter leaf.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi soup with ugu and bitter leaf using 12 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup with ugu and bitter leaf:
- Get Egusi (melon)
- Get Tomatoes
- Prepare Fresh pepper
- Prepare Cow meat
- Prepare Onion
- Get Palm oil
- Make ready Crayfish
- Make ready Stockfish
- Take Maggi
- Make ready Salt
- Get Ugu
- Prepare leaf Bitter
The washed bitter leaf, which at this time is no longer bitter, is then added sparingly with continuous stirring. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup. 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.
Steps to make Egusi soup with ugu and bitter leaf:
- Wash and boil your meat with seasoning, salt and pepper
- Add your stock fish to the meat on fire while boiling
- Pick and grind your egusi (melon). Then pour it into a clean bowl and add water just alittle above it to soak it. (This helps to prevent lumps)
- Wash and blend your tomatoes and pepper coarsely and set aside
- Pick and wash your bitter leaf and set aside (pls leave a little bitter taste, so it is not completly washed) or else the essence of the bitter leaf would be defeated.
- Same with your ugu, pick, wash and slice finely and set aside
- Chop your onion and set aside
- Rince a clean pot and place on fire. When hot, pour in your palm oil, when the oil is hot, but not bleached, add your onion and stirfry till translucent.
- Add your tomatoes and pepper and keep stiring. Leave on fore for a while to dry up
- There after, add your soaked egusi, and keep stiring or else it would get stuck to the pot and burn. So you must stir continuously till it is dry.
- Add your blended crayfish and keep stiring for like 2 mins, then add your washed bitter leaf and keep stiring for another 1 min.
- At this point, you add you meat and stock fish together with the meat stock. Cover and allow to cook for a like 2 mins then taste for salt and maggi and add to taste.
- After about 3mins, add your washed ugu leave, cover to seamer for 1min then put down from fire.
- Your soup is ready! You can eat it with any swallow of your choice.
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. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. EGUSI PASTE Making of egusi soup with dried bitter leaf.
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