Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Egusi soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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. Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:

1. Prepare 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu)
2. Prepare 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of cryfish
3. Get 1 bowl Iced fish
4. Prepare Small bowl of stockfish
5. Make ready Bowl kpomo (ganda)
6. Take 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper
7. Prepare 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices
8. Get 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa)
9. Make ready Handful Uziza leaves
10. Get 1 bowl red oil
11. Take Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
12. Take Oil to fry fish
13. Take Seasoning

Besides the seeds, water, and oil, egusi soup typically contains leaf vegetables, Palm oil, other vegetables, seasonings, and meat. Leaf vegetables typically used for egusi soup include bitterleaf, pumpkin leaf, celosia and spinach. 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.

Steps to make Egusi soup:

1. I am going to be detailed here with my step by step cooking method. Ingredients loading…..
2. ……. Roughly blend your onions and peppers. Share your spices and seasoning into 3 portions.
3. In a pot of water boil stock fish + kpomo + a portion of your seasoning and spices.+ Onions + Iru for 30 min. Then boil your blend with a portion of spices and seasoning+Cameroon pepper with Iru till dry.
4. Am going to fry my fish because is not a one time dine soup but am going to preserve it in the freezer, so I need my fish to be firm for a longer period.
5. Put Palm oil and fry onions for 2 min. Then add the egusi and stir fry(mind you stir fry if not it will get burnt) you will notice it getting formy,continue to stir
6. Add a portion of spices and seasoning, stir fry till the foam pipes down
7. Add the boiled kpomo and stockfish+dried fish and you can add water based on the consistency (thickness)you want and allow for 10 min
8. Add Uziza leaves (my Uziza 🤩 the scent is cloud 9) for 2 min
9. Add ugu and fried fish and allow simmer for 2 min
10. Then….
11. You know! When he entered the house, he was like baby I have been perceiving this aroma from down the street 😅😅. I didn't mention names😅 Su Santi manya😀

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.

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