Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, egusi groundnut soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. Groundnut Soup (Peanut Soup) is next best soup after Egusi Soup. It is prepared the same way as Egusi Soup so you can apply the two methods of preparing Egusi Soup to Groundnut Soup with.
Egusi groundnut soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Egusi groundnut soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have egusi groundnut soup using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi groundnut soup:
- Make ready 2 tomato 🍅 balls
- Take Scotch bonnet
- Prepare Onions
- Prepare Blend Mellon
- Get Blended groundnut
- Prepare Salt
- Get Seasoning
- Make ready Locust beans
- Make ready Palm oil
- Take Ugu
- Prepare Boiled Beef/pomo
- Take Dried fish
If you can't find Egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Any combination of crab, shrimp and smoked fish can be used in place of. Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors!
Instructions to make Egusi groundnut soup:
- Slice boiled beef/pomo, wash dried fish with warm water and set aside. Blend groundnut, blend scotch bonnet with tomato and onions. Wash ugu neatly and set aside
- Put your pot on fire, add palm oil, allow oil to be a bit hot, pour in the tomato, scotch bonnet and onion that you blended together. Fry for about 3-5mins depending on the heat 🔥
- Add seasoning, salt to taste, pour in boiled beef, pomo, dried fish and locust beans and stir together. Add the stock from the beef you boiled, add some quantity of water, allow it to boil for a few minutes, pour in your blended groundnut, stir and allow to boil so it could get thick to your taste. Then add ugu leaves, stir and put out fire.
- Serve with semo, pounded yam or any swallow of your choice. I had mine with semo. Bon Appétit
Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors! See the video below on how to make Egusi Soup. In the wake of high cost of Egusi Melon, I advise you guys to try Groundnut soup for another tasty experience. 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).
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