Recipe: Perfect Egusi Soup

Egusi 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. 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.

Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors! See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. You can have Egusi Soup using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egusi Soup

1. It's 2 cup of Egusi blended.
2. You need 2 of cksp palm oil.
3. Prepare 2 of fresh tomatoes.
4. You need 5 of fresh pepper.
5. You need of cow leg.
6. It's of perinwinkle.
7. Prepare of kpomo.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of crayfish blended.
9. You need to taste of salt.
10. Prepare of spinach leaf sliced.
11. It's 2 of knorr cube.

Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi soup is a culinary soup prepared with egusi seeds as a primary ingredient.

Egusi Soup step by step

1. Wash cow leg and spiced then parboiled and cook once till it's tender set aside.
2. Dice or blend tomatoes and pepper and set aside.
3. Heat up medium pot and add palm oil, once its hot, add blended tomatoes and pepper paste and allow it fry for 4 to 5 minutes.
4. Mix blended egusi with little water and turn it into a paste, pour into the pot and stir continuously for 5 to 8 minutes,.
5. Add crayfish, periwinkle, salt and knorr cube then add cooked cow leg; stir everything together, cover pot and leave it on low heat for another 5 minutes,.
6. Add dice spinach leaf stir and turn off heat almost immediately; and serve with any swallow of your choice.

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