How to Make Perfect Egusi Soup

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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 slightly different approaches. You can cook Egusi Soup using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egusi Soup

1. It's 1 cup of ground egusi.
2. You need 1 of large onion.
3. It's 5 of tattasai.
4. Prepare 10 of scotch bonnet.
5. Prepare 4 of seasoning cube.
6. You need cloves of Garlic.
7. You need of Meat.
8. Prepare of Fish.
9. Prepare of Chicken.
10. Prepare to taste of Salt.
11. It's Half of cup palm oil.
12. It's 2 table spoon of Daddawa.
13. You need Bunch of ugu.
14. You need leaves of Few moringa.
15. You need leaves of Few bitter leaves.

Egusi Soup is a soup made with a white kind of pumpkin seeds (obtainable from African stores or Amazon.com). Ground egusi (or pumpkin seeds) is the main ingredient. Other ingredients include red palm oil, African crayfish, meats and fish, seasoning, hot pepper and some form of leafy greens. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.

Egusi Soup step by step

1. Pound egusi and onion do not add water.
2. Continue ponding until a little oily.
3. .
4. Perboil meat and chicken adding seasoning cube daddawa and salt.
5. Blend pepper, scotch bonnet garlic and onion then fry in palm oil.
6. Mix with the chicken stock and cook for 15 minutes.
7. Add in egusi paste do not stir and cover until water is drained out leaving oil.
8. Add in vegetables ugu moringa and bitter leaf cook for 5 minutes and cover.
9. At this time your swallow should be ready. And ready to enjoy..

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. Some hardcore like I am will even serve over Rice. Egusi soup is one of the most elaborate dishes in Nigeria and other parts of West Africa. It is named after the key ingredient, egusi, ground melon seeds. Egusi comes from indigenous West African melon, pumpkin or bitter gourd.