Egusi (fried method)
Egusi (fried method)

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, egusi (fried method). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Egusi (fried method) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Egusi (fried method) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egusi (fried method) using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Egusi (fried method):
  1. Take 2 cups egusi
  2. Prepare Deboned and parboiled dried fish
  3. Take 10 seeds Grinded fresh pepper
  4. Get Handful ugu leaves
  5. Make ready Very small freshly washed bitterleaves
  6. Get Palm oil
  7. Take Seasoning
  8. Take Salt
  9. Prepare Crayfish
  10. Get Parboiled beef/other parts
  11. Get Tiny diced onions

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. Learn two methods of making the soup: caking and frying. A lot of people in Nigeria enjoy eating Egusi Soup?

Steps to make Egusi (fried method):
  1. Pour the pepper in a pot and add some of the meatstock and dried fish stock and let it cook until almost dried
  2. Add the crayfish,bitterleaves and parboiled meat and fish and stir gently not to scatter the fish
  3. In a bowl, add the grinded melon with pinch of salt and the diced onions
  4. Mold properly until it begins to produce oil
  5. Put a pot on fire and add palm oil on very low heat
  6. When it’s a bit hot, start cutting and adding the molded egusi (please this must be done on very low heat or it all goes bad!!!) take note
  7. Continue stir frying an add more palm oil to fry if needed.
  8. After about 8-10minutes of the egusi frying, turn of heat
  9. Light up the pepper mix and start scooping in the fried melon into it
  10. Scoop in large junks and leave for like 30secs before stirring. (Still on low heat or it burns)
  11. Then start stirring gently and the soup starts to fry with the oil from the fried egusi
  12. Continue frying for 5-6minutes
  13. The taste for seasoning and at this stage the egusi should have fried enough and formed seeds
  14. Then add little water to break up the soup dryness and lighten the reddish colour of the melon from frying in palm oil. Adjust seasoning. Sprinkle in the ugu and allow to cook for 2minutes

How to cook this appealing and Nutritive dish? 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. Fried Egusi Soup: where the Egusi is fried in palm oil before other ingredients are added. Nigerian Egusi Soup is a soup thickened with ground melon seeds and contains leafy and other vegetables.

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