Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Learn How to make Egusi soup

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Egusi Soup - Today I'm going to be showing you how to make Egusi soup since I made my last egg this would be a lot of you have been asking me to make. Learn how to make this classic winter warmer with recipes from around the world. This soup is native to West Africa (Nigeria) and many of my American as well as Nigerian friends have enjoyed it. It is a great soup for those who like to try something different every once in a while.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have learn how to make egusi soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Learn How to make Egusi soup:

1. Take 5 cups (550 g) Egusi (Melon) seeds
2. Make ready Palm oil : Half litre
3. Take Protein : Beef,kpomo,Cow leg, Shaki (cow tripe),Fish: dry fish
4. Make ready Ground crayfish
5. Prepare Pepper : Yellow pepper preferably or Red pepper /black pepper
6. Make ready to taste Salt
7. Prepare Onions
8. Prepare Vegetable: Nigerian pumpkin leaves aka ugwu or bitter leaf
9. Prepare Stock cubes to taste (3 - 5)
10. Take Tin tomatoes (optional)
11. Get 1 small ogiri okpei (optional)
12. Take Onga soup spice (1-2 satchets)

For tips about how to serve the egusi soup, keep reading! How To make Egusi soup In Nigeria, Learn To make this delicious Nigerian soup. 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.

Instructions to make Learn How to make Egusi soup:

1. Wash your protein of choice, stock fish,Kpomo,dry fish. Put in a clean pot then spice it with sliced onions and stock cube. Cook it till meat is soft. Then bring down from fire.
2. Pour the red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil melts(don't allow it bleach,it should just turn translucent),add the sliced onions and tin tomatoes,fry for sometime,add the ground egusi,pepper and iru to the mix,then fry. Mix the ground egusi with oil till every grain of egusi turns yellow.
3. Stir the egusi on low to medium heat. Keep stir-frying for about 10 minutes.
4. Add the meat/fish stock (water from cooking the fish and meat) then stir the egusi. still too thick, you can add hot water in the same way till you get the consistency you want. If your choice of vegetable is bitter leaf, add it at this time.
5. Cover the pot and cook for 20 minutes, stirring at intervals. Also, top up the water when necessary. If you don't stir it, it will burn. Cooking time for egusi soup is 30 minutes, else the soup will not taste nice. Also, egusi that is not cooked long enough may cause upset stomach. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has separated from the mix. Then add your meat and stockfish
6. Add the ground crayfish(reason it's added now is so it doesn't burn the soup). Stir and add the Nigerian pumpkin leaves  (if that is what your using, You could also use both)
7. Add your seasoning, salt if necessary. If it is too thick, add some water to bring it to a consistency you like. - 9. Cover and leave to simmer and it is done! - It's perfect with Pounded Yam. You can also serve it with Eba (Garri), Amala, Semolina Fufu,  or Cassava Fufu.

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. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. Nigerian Egusi soup na soup wey dey thickened wit ground melon seeds wit oda vegetables. Na one of di most popular soups wey most tribes for Nigeria dey prepare wit different styles.

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