How to prepare Egusi(Melon) Soup

How to prepare Egusi(Melon) Soup

• escobaron 12 years ago
  Ingredients
  
  1. Egusi (Melon) seeds - 3 cigar cups | 600g
  2. Red Palm Oil – 2 cooking spoons
  2. Beef – Best cut and Shaki (cow tripe)
  3. Fish – Dry Fish and Stock Fish
  3. Crayfish
  4. chilli, black Pepper(uziza seeds) and Salt to taste
  5. Vegetable – Pumpkin leaves or Bitter leaf
  6. Seasoning – 3 Maggi or Knorr cubes
  7. Traditional Seasoning – 1 Okpei (optional)
  
  Before preparing the soup, Boil water and soak your dryfish/stockfish and leave for about 10 minutes.
  Much closer to your cooking time, grind the Egusi with a dry mill. Grind the crayfish and the dry pepper separately and set aside. Wash the vegetable to be used. Cut into tiny pieces.
  
  
  Method:
  1. Put your beef/chicken inside dry pot and add sliced onions, chili, salt, seasoning, grounded black pepper(uziza seeds), grounded crayfish.
  2. Place on fire and boil till meat is cooked or soft to eat. While on the cooker continue adding water to ensure it does not burn, but not so much to make the soup watery.
  3. Put 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil is clearer, add the grounded egusi and start frying.
  This should be done at low heat to avoid burning. Keep frying till you see the egusi getting drier. One sign of this is that it will start sticking to the bottom of the pot.
  
  4. Now, pour the shaki/beef/stockfish mix into the egusi and continue stirring.If you feel that the soup is still too thick, you can add more water. If your choice of vegetable is bitterleaf, it should be added now as well.
  Cover the pot and cook for 30 minutes. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has risen to the surface of the mix and separated from the mix. If pumpkin leaves (or any other soft vegetable) is your choice, please add it now.
  Cover the pot and leave everything to steam together for 5 minutes.
  Yum yum yum. Soup is ready to be served with Pounded yam,Garri, pounded cassava(fufu), or any major carbohydrate in your part of the world.
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