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Egusi Soup Recipe

Egusi (Melon) Soup - How to Prepare Egusi soup

Mr David
This recipe shouws you how to cook egusi soup in just about 90 minutes. Anybody could follow this recipe as long as you could find the ingreidnts.
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Soup
Cuisine Nigerian Cuisine
Servings 12 People
Calories 530 kcal

Equipment

  • Pots
  • Blender

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups of egusi seeds
  • 2 kg Chicken meat
  • 1/2 cup crayfish
  • 200 g Dried fish
  • 3 seasoning cubes
  • 300 ml of palm oil
  • 5 Scotch bonnet pepper
  • 200 g Stock Fish
  • 1 Small Dawadaw or Okpei
  • 1 cup bitter leaves

Instructions
 

  • Start making egusi soup by preparing the ingredients - wash the bitter leaves properly and boil with just water for 10 minutes. precook the meats and grind your melon seeds, crayfish, and peppers.
  • Pour hot water over the dried fish and stockfish, wash and set aside.
  • Once the meat is cooked, add 5 cups of water to it and follow with the 300ml palm oil, ground crayfish/pepper. Allow boiling for 7 minutes.
  • The dried fish and stockfish should be added at this point, stir the soup and allow it to boil for another five minutes.
  • Now you can add the ground melon (egusi seeds), stir and sprinkle another seasoning cube.
  • Salt to your taste.
  • Add the bitter leaves and cover your soup to cook for 6 minutes.
  • This is how to cook egusi soup in Nigeria. Serve with fufu, eba or pounded yam.

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