Egusi soup. It is a great soup for those who like to try something different every once in a while. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds.
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 Nigerian Egusi Soup The Nigerian Egusi soup, prepared with melon seeds, is prepared by most tribes in Nigeria in many different ways.
You can cook Egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Egusi soup
- You need 2 cup of melon(grounded).
- It's 4 of dry fish medium.
- Prepare 1 kg of beef.
- Prepare 1 bunch of pumpkin leaf(sliced).
- Prepare 3 tablespoon of crayfish (ground).
- Prepare 6 of fresh pepper (blended).
- You need 1 of onion bulb (blended).
- Prepare 4 cube of maggi.
- You need 1/2 of palm oil.
- You need to taste of salt.
It is known as Miyan Gushi in Hausa, Ofe Egusi in Igbo and Efo Elegusi in Yoruba. Nigerian Egusi Soup (Caking Method) [Video] 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. Some hardcore like I am will even serve over Rice.
Egusi soup step by step
- Get a clean pot,wash beef and fish with salt then put inside pot add little water..
- Place on heat allow to boil for 30.pour the stock out rinse pot place back on heat then add palm oil.
- Then add onion,pepper,fish and fry for 7min then add egusi to fry for 2min add meat stock,maggi,salt for 1 min then add leaf and turn off heat..
- Soup is ready,so so delicious,it can be eaten with semo,fufu,wheat etc.
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 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.