Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Egusi soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Egusi soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup:

1. Get 1 cup Egusi
2. Get Ugu leafs
3. Take 1/2 cup Crayfish
4. Prepare Fried mackerel
5. Prepare to taste Seasonings
6. Make ready 2 cooking spoon Palm oil
7. Make ready Salt
8. Take 3 Red pepper, 5 scotch bonnet and 3 tomatoes
9. Prepare 3 medium Onions
10. Make ready 3 cloves Garlic
11. Take 1 Nutmeg

Egusi soup is a kind of soup thickened with the ground seeds and popular in West Africa, with considerable local variation. 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.

Instructions to make Egusi soup:

1. Required ingredients
2. Grind ur Egusi and Crayfish together put in a clean bowl,slice onions and add water…mix to foam a paste
3. Place a pot on medium heat put palm oil add onions to it and your ground red pepper, scotch bonnet,tomatoes, onions, garlic and shallow fry then you put your Egusi paste,seasonnings,mix and cover to cook for 10 minutes
4. Add your chopped ugu leafs and little salt and cover to cook for 5minutes
5. Serve

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. 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.

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