Yummy Food Melon (Egusi) Soup Nigerian Cuisine

So Yummy Melon (Egusi) Soup certainly is our favorite nigerian cuisine. Its easy to make Melon (Egusi) Soup. Egusi soup is a Nigerian soup that you can serve with all kind of food (all swallow & rice). Egusi soup is a very popular and a much loved dish in most all of West Africa. Finding new ingredients is just one of the joys of this culinary journey around the world.

So Yummy Melon (Egusi) Soup Nigerian Cuisine

Find out how to cook egusi soup with this egusi soup recipe. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. You can have Melon (Egusi) Soup by following 14 ingredients and only 7 steps. Here is cooking guidance how you can easily make that.

Ingredients

1	You need 4 cups of melon (as desired) blended smooothly.
2	About 1 of medium size Onion blended to a smooth paste with water.
3	Prepare of Meats of your choice.
4	Prepare of Stock fish.
5	It’s of Ponmo.
6	Prepare of Locust bean.
7	Take of Dry Catfish.
8	Approximately of Meat stock.
9	About cubes of Seasoning.
10	Take of Salt.
11	Approximately of Fresh bonnet peppers blended.
12	You need of Palm oil.
13	Take of Crayfish blended with the melon.
14	Prepare of pumpkin leafs sliced.

It is a staple in most West African home and it is an uncomplicated one pot meal that is. Egusi soup, also called melon soup is an absolute delightful delicacy enjoyed all over West Africa. Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. Egusi soup also known as melon soup in Nigeria can be.

Cooking Step by Step

Step 1	Wash the meats and everything needed thoroughly. Cook the meat with the ponmo and stockfish together with seasoning cubes and salt. Drop from heat and sieve the stock. Set aside..
Step 2	Wash the dry Catfish thoroughly with warm water and set aside. I used chicken for this melon soup and fried it lightly. I like my meats lightly fried for some soups.. The choice is yours.
Step 3	Blend the pepper with water separately from t he melon. Pour the blended melon, crayfish in a bowl and add the blended onions. Mix to combine and form a thick paste..
Step 4	Put the pot for the soup on fire. Add palm oil, the blended fresh peppers, Allow to boil for like 2 minutes..
Step 5	Use your washed hands or spoon to cut lumps of the mixed melon into the boiling pepper Mix. Don't stir. Allow to fry for like 3minutes. Before stirring gently..
Step 6	Add the meat stock and locust bean. If the meat water(stock) added is not enough to cook the soup, please add ordinary water. Gauge with your eyes. Allow to boil for some minutes until it molds. Then add your meat, fish, ponmo and other available fish…
Step 7	Stir gently, taste for seasoning cubes and salt. Add the pumpkin leafs and drop from heat..

Egusi soup cooked with green vegetables is very nutritious. I can take the soup alone without foo foo or any swallow and still feel full. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup. Ingredients: Ground melon seeds 'Egusi', dry fish, ground crayfish, groundnut oil, palm oil, chopped spinach, ground pepper sauce, stick cubes, salt to.