Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, egusi soup served with semo. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Egusi soup served with semo is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Egusi soup served with semo is something that I have loved my whole life.

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. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup served with semo using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup served with semo:

1. Get 1 derica of egusi(grounded melon)
2. Get hand full dry crayfish (not the tiny once pls)
3. Get 6 crabs
4. Get 1 big oporoko head(stock fish)
5. Make ready 4 round smoked panla(fish)
6. Get 4 white ponmo (I prefer white ponmo to smoked ponmo)
7. Make ready red oil
8. Prepare 2 cubes knor chicken
9. Make ready to taste salt
10. Get 4 big red bell pepper
11. Take 10 piece pepper
12. Make ready 4 tomatoes(I like mine with tomatoes)
13. Prepare 2 big onions
14. Get 1 big bunch ugu leaf(pumpkin leaf sliced)

Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. 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). You could also serve Egusi Soup with garri (granules made out of cassava/yucca root).

Steps to make Egusi soup served with semo:

1. Wash ur ponmo well cut it into small piece, wash the oporoko shred it,wash the crab well, put them all in the pot you are gonna use to cook the egusi with not so much water to avoid watery egusi add salt and 1knor chicken cube. Let it boil for like 30min
2. While the ponmo and others are boiling. Wash ur smoked fish shred it and set aside, remove the head of the crayfish and set aside. Blend all ur pepper and tomatoes with one onions together not so smooth.
3. Once your ponmo and others is soft turn in ur blended pepper let it boil for another 10 min then add 3big spoon of red oil taste if it needs one more cube of maggi and salt, let it cook
4. Mean while your egusi is aside and your ugu leaf is washed. When your stew is ready, add the fish and the crayfish stir well and add ur egusi don't turn immediately u add d egusi cover ur pot for 2min let it simmer then open and turn. note: while adding the egusi the heat should be low to avoid burnt
5. Once u turn in your egusi well add the fresh ugu leaf(sliced pumpkin leaf) still on low heat turn well then cover and let it simmer well for like 10min and then ur sumptuous egusi is ready

Serve with semo or pounded yam. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables. Blend egusi seeds and onion mixture. Make the soup: In a large pot, heat the palm oil on medium for a minute and then add the Une. This egusi with vegetable soup can be served alongside Eba, Starch, semo, poundo or not too soft Amala.

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