How to prepare egusi soup

Egusi soup

Egusi soup is made with melon seed. It is one of popular West Africa cuisine. Some people use ground egusi seed to thicken their soup. Egusi soup is highly nutritious, there is 462 calories in 1 serving egusi soup.

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Rich in sugar, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins like vitamin C, vitamin A. Rich in minerals like iron, sodium and more.

Ingredients

• Beef
• Assorted meat
• Stock fish
• Chicken meat
• Snail meat
• Smoked fish
• Palm oil
• Shrimp
• Onions
• Vegetable (ugwu)
• Cayenne pepper
• Seasoning
• Salt to taste
• Ground melon seed

Preparation

• Wash your meats, put on fire, add seasoning, onions and salt, boil until soft and tender. Also boil your stockfish until it's soft.
• Pound onions in a mortal and add the ground egusi seed to get a thick paste.
• Put pot on the fire, pour palm oil, allow to be hot then fry the egusi paste, make sure to turn so has not to egusi burnt.
• Pour in the broth and shredded vegetable leaves to the fried egusi.
• Pour in the cooked ingredients, shrimp, sliced onion, seasoning, Cayenne pepper and salt to taste. Leave on fire for the next 5minutes.
• Serve with pounded yam.