Recipe: Yummy 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 is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.

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. You can have Egusi soup using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Egusi soup

1. Prepare 3 of milk cups of raw melon.
2. You need of Yellow pepper (nsukka pepper).
3. Prepare of Shonbo.
4. You need Half of bulb of onion.
5. It's of Dry fish.
6. Prepare of Goatmeat, beef and kpomo.
7. You need of Stock fish.
8. It's of Blended crayfish.
9. It's 35 cl of palm oil.
10. Prepare of Ogiri okpei for local flavour.
11. It's 1 of hand full of wash bitter leaf.
12. You need leaves of Ugu.
13. It's cubes of Knor.
14. Prepare of Benny stock powder for seasoning meat.
15. It's to taste of Salt.

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. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.

Egusi soup step by step

1. Blend your melon in a dry mill, then soak in blended onion and water.
2. Season your meat with knor cubes and Benny then boil till tender, half way boiling your meat, throw in your stock fish into the meat..
3. Blend your fresh pepper and shonbo then fry separately in palm oil.
4. Heat palm oil in another cooking pot, then add your blended melon, start to fry and stir with care so you don't break up its lump, fry for about twenty minutes on low heat, then combine with your fried pepper and shonbo, then continue frying for few more minutes.
5. Pour in your meat and meat stock, add a little more water if necessary and continue cooking.
6. Add your crayfish, ogiri, dry fish and bitter leaf.
7. Cook till the soup thickens, taste and adjust the taste..
8. Add ugu leaves, cook for few seconds then bring down.

Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds (egusi seeds) and eaten with fufu dishes. Egusi Soup - Nigerian Melon Seed Stew. Quick, easy and healthier Egusi soup, made with lots of spinach. Egusi, or melon seeds, is a staple ingredient in many West African dishes and makes a great thickening base for soups and stews.