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    Nigerian Egusi Soup Recipie (Yoruba Style)

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    This document provides a recipe for Nigerian Egusi soup from the Yoruba culture. Egusi soup is a popular soup in Nigeria made with melon seeds. The recipe calls for egusi, meat, onions, fresh leaf, seasoning cubes, salt, dry fish, ogiri or dawadawa, and peppers. To make it, the egusi is blended and set aside. Meat is cooked with onions, seasoning cubes, salt, and spice. Water is added and it simmers until the meat is tender. The soup includes dried fish, crayfish, stock fish, and ogiri. It cooks for 10-15 more minutes before serving with starch like eba, fufu

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    This document provides a recipe for Nigerian Egusi soup from the Yoruba culture. Egusi soup is a popular soup in Nigeria made with melon seeds. The recipe calls for egusi, meat, onions, fresh leaf, seasoning cubes, salt, dry fish, ogiri or dawadawa, and peppers. To make it, the egusi is blended and set aside. Meat is cooked with onions, seasoning cubes, salt, and spice. Water is added and it simmers until the meat is tender. The soup includes dried fish, crayfish, stock fish, and ogiri. It cooks for 10-15 more minutes before serving with starch like eba, fufu

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    Just a brief guide on how to cook Nigerian Egusi Soup, the popular way!

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    This document provides a recipe for Nigerian Egusi soup from the Yoruba culture. Egusi soup is a popular soup in Nigeria made with melon seeds. The recipe calls for egusi, meat, onions, fresh leaf, seasoning cubes, salt, dry fish, ogiri or dawadawa, and peppers. To make it, the egusi is blended and set aside. Meat is cooked with onions, seasoning cubes, salt, and spice. Water is added and it simmers until the meat is tender. The soup includes dried fish, crayfish, stock fish, and ogiri. It cooks for 10-15 more minutes before serving with starch like eba, fufu

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    This document provides a recipe for Nigerian Egusi soup from the Yoruba culture. Egusi soup is a popular soup in Nigeria made with melon seeds. The recipe calls for egusi, meat, onions, fresh leaf, seasoning cubes, salt, dry fish, ogiri or dawadawa, and peppers. To make it, the egusi is blended and set aside. Meat is cooked with onions, seasoning cubes, salt, and spice. Water is added and it simmers until the meat is tender. The soup includes dried fish, crayfish, stock fish, and ogiri. It cooks for 10-15 more minutes before serving with starch like eba, fufu

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    The key takeaways from the passage are the recipe and method for making traditional Nigerian Egusi soup, which is a popular soup made from melon seeds.

    The main ingredients used in making Nigerian Egusi soup include egusi (ground melon seeds), meat, fish, onions, leafy greens, seasoning cubes, salt, crayfish, and pepper.

    The main steps involved in preparing Nigerian Egusi soup are cooking the meat, dissolving the egusi in water, frying the egusi mixture, preparing the fish and crayfish, combining all ingredients and cooking for 10-15 minutes, then adding seasoning and leafy greens.

    NIGERIAN EGUSI SOUP RECIPIE

    Egusi soup is the most popular, yummiest (and fattening!) of all Nigeria soups.

    The Nigerian Egusi soup, prepared with melon seeds, is prepared by most
    tribes in Nigeria in many different ways. It is known as Miyan Gushi in Hausa,
    Ofe Egusi in Igbo and Efo Elegusi in Yoruba.

    Different methods include:

    § Fried Egusi Soup: where the Egusi is fried in palm oil before other
    ingredients are added. I also call this one the Oil Before Egusi Method.
    § Akpuruakpu Egusi: where the ground egusi is molded into balls and cooked
    in the soup such that you will be eating the egusi balls like meat while
    enjoying the meal.

    This recipie relates to the most popular of egusi recipes which is made by

    Yoruba culture.
    The ingredients include:

    For 5 to 7 serving

    • 3 cups of egusi(ground)
    • stuck fish head
    • meat (turkey, beef, chicken, or assorted meat)
    • onions- 1 bulb
    • fresh leaf (Ugu or onugbu)
    • 3 cubes of maggi (or other seasoning)
    • salt
    • 2 medium sized round-dry fish
    • 2 ogiri or dawadawa or okpei
    • About five to ten fresh peppers

    Preparation
    Blend the egusi and set aside, wash the meat and start cooking with whatever

    ingredients you prefer. Personally I use just 2 cubes of maggi, 1 bulb of onions,

    salt and maybe a half sachet of delice or onga soup (spice).

    Images include: Onga seasoning, Nigeria Ogiri, and a bowl of egusi soup
    Cook for five to ten minutes then add water and cook till it is soft for

    consumption. I know there are different egusi soup recipes but this happens to

    be the yummiest amongst all.

    Dissolve the already ground egusi in cold water (as you would find below) to

    have a thick egusi syrup and set aside, heat your pot and add about 15cl of red

    oil or less (you probably know that a bottle of coke is 30 or 35cl, so half would

    do)

    Egusi Soup Nigeria

    Heat the red oil for two minutes (but don’t allow to bleach) then add the

    mixture and stir.

    Cook and stir the mixture until it loses its coagulation due to water loss from

    frying (you must stir continuously to avoid burning).

    Wash the dry fish with hot water, just pour hot water to soften the fish and

    also remove the centre bone, wash thoroughly to remove sands and

    impurities.

    Blend the crayfish and the fresh pepper differently.


    Add the already cooked meat (plus water), dried fish, crayfish/pepper, stock

    fish, ogiri (optional) and salt.

    Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, then add maggi and the leaf, taste for salt and you

    are done!

    You may serve with eba, fufu, garri, semo, pounded yam (which happens to be

    a crowd favorite) or even rice.

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