Recipe: Appetizing Egusi Soup

Egusi Soup. 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. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds.

Ground Egusi seeds give this soup a unique color and flavor. If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. You can have Egusi Soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Egusi Soup

1. It's 3 cups of egusi.
2. It's 2 bunch of ugu leaf.
3. It's 1/2 of cksp dry pepper.
4. You need 1 head of stock fish.
5. You need 1 of dry fish.
6. You need 1 kg of Meat.
7. You need of pomo.
8. It's 3 of cksp Palmoil.
9. You need 1 of cksp Crayfish.
10. It's 3 cubes of knorr.
11. It's to taste of Salt.

Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors! See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.

Egusi Soup instructions

1. Wash the meat and stockfish with salt. boil the meat and stockfish with salt, knorr, pepper and blend egusi in a blender till is paste.
2. Heat up pot and pour in palmoil, bleach for 2mins then pour in the blended egusi and stir very well and leave it to fry. Fry for 5mins but please don't leave it burn; do stir at intervals.
3. Pour in the boiled meat, pomo and stockfish, stir and cover the pot and boil after 10mins, add crayfish, dryfish, pepper, knorr and salt..
4. Wash and dice uGu leaf; add uGu leaf into the soup. stir and allow it cook for a minute and remove from heat.
5. Serve with any swallow of your choice.

Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds (egusi seeds) and eaten with fufu dishes. Egusi Soup - Nigerian Melon Seed Stew. Quick, easy and healthier Egusi soup, made with lots of spinach. Egusi, or melon seeds, is a staple ingredient in many West African dishes and makes a great thickening base for soups and stews.