My Egusi Soup Recipe

One soup I love so much is the Egusi soup, and when it comes to cooking Egusi soup, my mom is an expert, no wonder my Egusi soup tastes just as good as mama's.

To prepare this, you will need 

• Your already blended Egusi
• Blended crayfish and pepper (preferably yellow pepper)
• Palm oil
• Stock fish (Okporoko)
• Onions
• Ugu leaf (pumpkin leaf)
• Uziza leaf (false cube leaf)
• Locust beans
• Salt
• Seasoning cube
• Kponmo (Cow hides)
• Meat
• Dried fish

Recipe:

After cleaning your kponmo, meat and stock fish set aside. Boil a small amount of water then put your dried fish in a bowl, when the water is ready, pour over the dried fish and set aside. 

Boil your meat, stock fish and kponmo in a pot when ready set aside.

Put your pot on heat, when hot pour your red oil and allow to be a bit hot, add your already diced onion, blended crayfish and pepper, and allow to fry for 2 minutes. Add your meat stock and locust beans. Leave and allow to boil for 2 minutes. Add your stock fish and already cleaned dry fish. Allow to boil for about 3 minutes.

Mix your Egusi in your meat stock and pour into your boiling pot. Allow to boil for another 5mins.  Add your meat and kponmo, add your seasoning cubes and salt to taste stir and leave to simmer for another 3 mins.

Add your washed and well drained ugu and uziza leaf, cover and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Add your red oil and cover, allow to boil for about 5 minutes. Stir and turn off heat at this point. Your soup is ready to serve.

Ps: I am not a chef and I usually use my discretion when measuring ingredients I use when cooking. Although I made use of 1 derica of Egusi here.

Kindly try out this recipe and tell me what you think.

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My humble self
Linda💕