Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, egusi soup with moringa leaves. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with.
Egusi soup with moringa leaves is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Egusi soup with moringa leaves is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi soup with moringa leaves using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi soup with moringa leaves:
- Make ready Grinded egusi (melon)
- Prepare Goat meat
- Take Dried fish
- Prepare Maggi seasoning and salt
- Prepare Stock fish
- Get Crayfish
- Make ready Cameron pepper
- Take Palm oil
Egusi Soup is a Nigerian classic enjoyed in various forms. This soup is native to West Africa (Nigeria) and many of my American as well as Nigerian friends have enjoyed it. It is a great soup for those who like to try 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 the shrimp.
Instructions to make Egusi soup with moringa leaves:
- Wash your meat into a pot, add your maggi seasoning and salt to taste and allow to cook for say 10 to 15 mins
- Wash both the stock fish and dried fish and add to the meat and allow to cook
- Pick your moringa leaves from the stem. Then boil water and pour into leaves and allow it for say 5 mins, then wash it out of the watet
- While the meat stock is boiling, you can add your pepper, additional seasoning and water
- Pour your grinded egusi (melon) into a bowl add the water from the boiling stock and mash
- Mold it into small ball into your boiling meat stock and allow to cook for say 10 mins
- Then add your already washed moringa leaves and allow to cook for another 10 mins and add your crayfish
- You can serve with eba (garri), semotiva, pounded yam.
Oha leaf, comes indifferent species and are used in preparing different kinds of ohasoups. For example we have the Anambraohaleaf, which is bigger in size and easier to shred when using it, this specie of oha leaf is mostly good for preparing oha with Egusi soup, other species include Nsukkaoha leaf. Egusi Soup is a rich and savory West African soup made with ground melon seeds (egusi seeds) and eaten with fufu dishes. Egusi soup has a wonderful complex flavor and is made with traditional West African ingredients and spices. It is a very thick soup, and is actually more of a stew, as you can also.
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