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Looking at the ingredients, the soup is prepared with blended melon (Egusi), with Ugwu leaves and a little bit of Preparing your Semo.
Serve and your Food is ready.
This Dish is mostly eaten by the south-west part of Nigeria.
You can have Egusi soup served with semo using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Egusi soup served with semo
- It's 1 of derica of egusi(grounded melon).
- Prepare of hand full dry crayfish (not the tiny once pls).
- You need 6 of crabs.
- It's 1 of big oporoko head(stock fish).
- You need 4 of round smoked panla(fish).
- You need 4 of white ponmo (I prefer white ponmo to smoked ponmo).
- You need of red oil.
- It's 2 cubes of knor chicken.
- It's to taste of salt.
- It's 4 of big red bell pepper.
- You need 10 piece of pepper.
- You need 4 of tomatoes(I like mine with tomatoes).
- It's 2 of big onions.
- It's 1 of big bunch ugu leaf(pumpkin leaf sliced).
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. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup.
Egusi soup served with semo instructions
- Wash ur ponmo well cut it into small piece, wash the oporoko shred it,wash the crab well, put them all in the pot you are gonna use to cook the egusi with not so much water to avoid watery egusi add salt and 1knor chicken cube. Let it boil for like 30min.
- While the ponmo and others are boiling. Wash ur smoked fish shred it and set aside, remove the head of the crayfish and set aside. Blend all ur pepper and tomatoes with one onions together not so smooth..
- Once your ponmo and others is soft turn in ur blended pepper let it boil for another 10 min then add 3big spoon of red oil taste if it needs one more cube of maggi and salt, let it cook.
- Mean while your egusi is aside and your ugu leaf is washed. When your stew is ready, add the fish and the crayfish stir well and add ur egusi don't turn immediately u add d egusi cover ur pot for 2min let it simmer then open and turn. note: while adding the egusi the heat should be low to avoid burnt.
- Once u turn in your egusi well add the fresh ugu leaf(sliced pumpkin leaf) still on low heat turn well then cover and let it simmer well for like 10min and then ur sumptuous egusi is ready.
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. Egusi Soup Nigeria Heat the red oil for two minutes (but don't allow to bleach) then add the mixture and stir. You may serve with eba, fufu, garri, semo, pounded yam (which. Egusi soup is an appetizing soup to behold.
