Recipe: Yummy Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup

Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup. Pounded Yam is a staple in many West African homes, but it is not usually eaten by itself, it is often paired with many delicious African soups, and stews. Other food in the swallow group includes fufu - made from cassava flour, Eba, Amala, and more. Egusi soup is popular in Western Africa.

Pumpkin seeds, also known as pepitas, can be substituted and are available in Latin American grocery stores. Learn how to make Nigeria's most popular soup Egusi. Peel, wash and boil yam till its well cooked, pound, mold into balls and set aside. You can cook Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup

1. You need of Tuber of yam.
2. Prepare leaf of Bitter.
3. You need of Egusi.
4. Prepare of Pepper.
5. It's of Tomato.
6. You need of Onions.
7. You need of Beef.
8. It's of Assorted meat.
9. Prepare of Maggi.
10. You need of Salt.
11. You need of Groundnut oil.

Melon soup also known as egusi soup is a popular soup recipe in the Western part of Africa. This soup is best served with pounded yam, fufu or eba. Egusi soup and pounded yam is such a mouthwatering and appetising dish to behold. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup.

Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup instructions

1. For the pounded yam, peel and wash tuber of yam, dice into large chunks add water in a pot and allow to boil. When yam is soft, strain out excess water and keep aside. Put boiled yam (preferrably little by little) in a mortar and pound with pestle until soft and no evidence of lumps. Add little water (from excess water drained from yam) if Yam gets sticky and hard to pound. After getting soft lumpless texture, mould into a ball and put in Santana(transparent leather)..
2. For the Egusi soup, boil beef and assorted meat and set aside (keep stock for later). Cut bitter leaf and wash thoroughly. Blend pepper onions and tomatoes and add groundnut oil to fry to make stew. Add water and beef stock to fried stew, add assorted meat and beef, Maggi, salt, to taste then cover and allow to boil for 10 mins. Add Egusi and also allow to cook for 10 mins then finally your bitter leaf goes in for 5 mins. Your Egusi soup is done.

In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. Pounded yam and egusi don dey hungry me naw. There's nothing quite like egusi soup. Almost every family has their own variation of this truly Nigerian dish - try ours for a guaranteed winner! Using a spoon, scoop up the egusi and place in the pot of.