Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, egusi soup with infused uziza leaves and ehu seed. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Uziza Egusi soup is just a twist on the regular egusi soup made with pumpkin leaves. This West African dish made with a local melon seed (Egusi) and leafy green vegetables. This soup is prepared by most tribes in Nigeria in many different ways.

Egusi Soup with infused uziza leaves and ehu seed is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Egusi Soup with infused uziza leaves and ehu seed is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi soup with infused uziza leaves and ehu seed using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi Soup with infused uziza leaves and ehu seed:

1. Make ready 2 cups melon
2. Take 1 kg beef
3. Take 5 pieces cow skin (cooked)
4. Take Half cup of shredded stock fish
5. Prepare 3 stock cubes
6. Get Half bulb of onion
7. Make ready yellow habanero pepper
8. Make ready 2 cooking spoons of palm oil
9. Prepare 2 tablespoons grounded crayfish
10. Get 2 medium sized dry fish
11. Prepare 6 pieces uziza leaves
12. Prepare 1 piece ehu seed (grounded)
13. Prepare to taste Salt

Uziza can be used as a leaf or as its seed, which is usually dark and tiny in size. Uziza seed is first ground before use while uziza leaf can be shredded or used as a whole leaf depending. Uziza, scientifically known as piper guineense, is often used to make native delicacies - pepper soup, egusi soup and lots more. A special broth of the uziza seed is consumed by women especially of the Eastern Nigeria, after childbirth to enhance uterine contraction and expel retained matter from the womb.

Instructions to make Egusi Soup with infused uziza leaves and ehu seed:

1. Wash and place the beef in a pot, season with onion and two stock cubes then cook till tender, add stock fish half way cooking
2. Next, blend the melon with pepper together with water till very smooth, at this point pour melon into a pot then add about one and half water and allow to cook for fifteen minutes
3. Next, add the boiled meat, dry fish, cow skin and meat stock in the pot hen continue cooking for another fifteen minutes, add crayfish and ehu seed then cook till it starts to thicken
4. Taste and adjust the taste with the remaining stock cube and salt
5. Lastly, add the uziza leaves then cook for few minutes and bring down.

While much emphasis is on […] I made this Egusi without palm oil, however, I replaced palm oil with Palm nut cream, I used a generous about of Ehu ( Calabash Nutmeg), Ogiri and Uziza leaves. Egusi soup is also one of the most popular soups, if not the most popular for all Nigerians and non-Nigerians that like Nigerian fufu recipes. The recipe detailed on this page is what I call the Caking Method of cooking Egusi Soup (the Egusi Before Oil method). Other methods are: E gusi soup can be made and enjoyed in different ways, adding this Uziza vegetable to Egusi soup brings a unique kind of flavour to this soup. Now I add Uziza to Okra soup, and Ogbono soup.it's always so yummy!

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