How to Cook Yummy Egusi soup

Egusi soup. Fill Your Cart With Color today! 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.

How to cook egusi soup in simple steps Add ground melon to a bowl, add about a cup of water and mix to form a paste then set aside. Wash and chop the spinach, drain in a colander and set aside. It is one of the most popular soups prepared by many Nigerian tribes. You can have Egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egusi soup

1. It's of Meat.
2. You need of Dry fish.
3. You need of Crayfish.
4. It's of Pepper.
5. You need of Knor.
6. Prepare of Onions.
7. It's of Ugu.
8. Prepare of Red oil.
9. Prepare of Salt.
10. You need of Okpei.

The people eat it with dishes like Pounded Yam. You can prepare egusi soup with goat, beef, fish, or shellfish! 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 step by step

1. Wash and steam meat and dry fish together..
2. Blend pepper, crayfish, and okpie together set aside..
3. Mix the blended melon (egusi) and chopped onion with a little water, and fry in heat red oil till it changed color, stir continuously so it wouldn't get burnt..
4. Turn the fried egusi to the meat stock water and continue cooking,.
5. Add your blended pepper, crayfish okpie, knor, and salt allow to cook for 5mins..
6. Add vegetable.

The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with slightly different approaches. Nigerian Egusi Soupis a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. It is one of the most popular soups prepared by most tribes in Nigeria with considerable variation and often eaten with dishes like Pounded Yams. Prepare it with goat, beef, fish, or shellfish! Nigerian Egusi Soup Recipes Anyway, here's how to make frying method egusi soup: Egusi Soup Recipe (Frying method) Recipe by Fitnigerian.