Egusi soup/melon soup. Melon mixed with vegetable popularly known as efo elegusi/ osiki. Ground melon slowly cooked in sauce and mixed together with combination of spinach/collard. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup.
Egusi soup is a popular Nigerian soup which can be served with either amala, eba (gari), semolina, pounded yam and many more.
The recipe is this video can be customised to your own taste, such as including your favourite seasoning, fish and more… Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd).
Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.
You can have Egusi soup/melon soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Egusi soup/melon soup
- You need 2 cup of grounded egusi.
- You need 1 tablespoon of cray fish.
- You need of Dried fish.
- It's of Meat.
- Prepare of Seasoning.
- Prepare of Salt.
- Prepare of Palm oil.
- It's of Red bell pepper(tattasai).
- Prepare of Pepper (attarugu).
- It's of Onions.
- It's of Ugu.
It is very important not to stir the Egusi at. Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. It is usually used as a thickener for meat or fish broth simmered to create an amazing dish of egusi often paired with eba, pounded yam, tuwo, banku and many others. Egusi soup is really not a soup at all, much more like a stew but it has superb flavor.
Egusi soup/melon soup step by step
- Make a thick paste with your ground egusi,make them into balls.
- Put 1 cooking spoon of palm oil in a pan heat it with some onions add in your egusi balls and fry them on low heat,you don’t have to turn them constantly to avoid them from been breaking.
- After your egusi balls are fried you removed them from oil gently to avoid them from breaking.
- Add some oil if their is need for that,fry your grained pepper mix,after frying them you add your stock,meat,crayfish and fish,let them simmer for some minutes.
- You now add inn your fried egusi ball into the soup and allow it to cook for some few min with out turning it,finally add ur chopped ugu and cover to simmer for 3 to 5min and ur egusi soup is ready to be served with tuwo or any swallow of your choice.
I love trying new ingredients egusi seeds are delicous! 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. Egusi soup is an appetizing soup to behold. Find out the many tricks of preparing this popular soup using the caking method.
