Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, egusi (melon seed) soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd). Egusi soup is really not a soup at all, much more like a stew but it has superb flavor. I love trying new ingredients egusi seeds are delicous!

Egusi (melon seed) soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Egusi (melon seed) soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have egusi (melon seed) soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:

1. Prepare 250 g melon seed (egusi)
2. Prepare 2 cubes stock seasoning
3. Take to taste Salt
4. Make ready 250 g palm oil
5. Get 1 bulb of red pepper
6. Take 1 onion bulb
7. Prepare Chilli pepper
8. Make ready Assorted meat and fish
9. Make ready Water
10. Take Vegetable of your choice

In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes Like I stated on the introductory page; Egusi (melon) soup is the most popular of all Nigerian soup. On this page, I also included a video recipe for. Egusi soup or melon soup is made from the dry seeds of the melon plant closely related to squash. It is usually used as a thickener for meat or fish broth simmered to create an amazing dish of egusi often paired with eba, pounded yam, tuwo, banku and many others.

Steps to make Egusi (melon seed) soup:

1. Crush pepper and onion in a blender and set aside, wash melon seed with water and blend with some onion till you have a smooth paste. Wash and boil assorted meat and fish if using stockfish. Season meat to taste.
2. In a clean pot, pour in the red oil and some chopped onion, then the blended pepper leave to stem for about 3 minutes then pour in the boiled meat and fish, add the 2 cubes of stock powder taste for salt and cover the pot for it all to cook together for another 5 minutes. Add the blended melon seed and stir continuously to avoid burning at the bottom. If too thick you can add a bit of water and keep stiring for about 5-8minutes.
3. Add vegetable of your choice. I used chopped spinach in mine. The vegetable only needs to cook for about a minute and viola, soup is ready.

Egusi is made from melon seeds that grow primarily in the warm regions of Africa. It makes a wonderful and satisfying. The main ingredient is melon seed flour. Egusi is basically white pumpkin seeds though some people prefer to call it melon seeds. Egusi soup is a popular West African soup.

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