Cookbook:Egusi Soup

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Egusi Soup
Egusi Soup
Category	Soups

Egusi soup, also called efọ elẹgusi, ofe egusi, or miyan gushi, is a Nigerian soup made from egusi seeds. There are various method of cooking egusi depending on the tribe. There are two prominent method of cooking egusi: the boiling and the frying method. It can be served with various swallows, including pounded yam, amala, fufu, and eba.

Ingredients

• Melon (egusi) seed, ground to a powder
• Pepper
• Onions
• Salt
• Palm oil
• Crayfish, cleaned
• Vegetables (Pumpkin leaf, bitter leaf, waterleaf)

Optional

• Seasoning Cube
• Locust Beans
• Ponmo (cow skin), washed and boiled to soften
• Stockfish, cleaned and deboned
• Dried fish, cleaned and deboned
• Fresh Fish
• Meat(Beef|Pork|Turkey|Chicken)
• Tomato

Preparation

1. Cut ponmo into small pieces as desire and if desired you can dice it.
2. Boil Meat or fresh fish alongside stock fish to make it soft and easy to chew. Add salt and seasoning to it so it can be tasty
3. Blend the fresh pepper,tomato,onion together.
4. Slice Onions
5. Pluck, Slice and wash the vegetables properly,and ensure there is no sand in the vegetable.
6. Crush the Seasoning cube to powder.

Method 1

The frying method.

Procedure

1. Mix the the grinded Seasoning powder,salt, fresh pepper,tomato,onion with Egusi Powder to make a thick paste.
2. Put the palm oil in pot and heat it.
3. Added the sliced onions into the hot palm oil and fry for few very minute.
4. Then fry the egusi paste you have made.Start stirring the egusi on low to medium heat. Keep stir-frying for about 10 minutes.
5. Add the locust beans: this step is optional.
6. Add the Boil Meat or fresh fish alongside stock fish to it.
7. Add the dry fish, crayfish and stock fish
8. If you feel the egusi is too thick add little water or the stock from the Boil Meat or fresh fish.
9. Allow to cook on low to medium heat for 10 minutes.
10. Add the sliced vegetables.And Cook for on low to medium heat for 10 minutes.
11. Taste to access the salt content if not enough add more till you get desired taste.

Method 2

Boiling Method

Procedure

1. While boiling the Meat or fresh fish alongside stock fish,add the palm oil into so it can boil.
2. Add the ponmo and the dried fish too.
3. Add the blended the fresh pepper,tomato,onion into the boiling stock.Allow to boil for 5 minutes.
4. Add the egusi powder and allow to boil for 10 minutes.
5. Add Crayfish and locust beans
6. Add the sliced vegetables.And Cook for on low to medium heat for 10 minutes.
7. Taste to access the salt content if not enough add more till you get desired taste.

Serving

Egusi can be eaten with eba,fufu,semo,amala,tuwo,starch,apku and rice.Depending on your choice and appetite.