Recipe: Perfect Egusi pepper soup

Recipe: Perfect Egusi pepper soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Egusi pepper soup. Egusi pepper soup is a popular Nigerian Pepper Soup dish. It's particularly common among the people of Niger-Delta. It is basically an Egusi (melon seeds) infused pepper soup dish.

Egusi pepper soup can be eaten as it is just like pepper soup or paired with "swallow" like poundo, eba and so on.

Egusi Pepper Soup: I hail o my Delta people, today's recipe is egusi pepper soup.

Yes, the same egusi (ground melon seed) we use in making delicious efo elegusi, lumpy egusi and egusi ijebu.

You can cook Egusi pepper soup using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Egusi pepper soup

1. It’s 1 of big cat fish.

2. It’s 1 table spoon of dry pepper.

3. You need of maggi.

4. You need of pepper soup spices.

5. It’s of grinded egusi 1 cup (wet grinding).

6. You need 1 tablespoon of grinded crayfish.

7. You need of salt.

When I started this blog some months back, one of my besties from Delta State gave me some recipes of the dishes cooked from her side.

Egusi pepper soup is otherwise known as Ovwovwo soup by the Urhobos in Nigeria.

I must say this soup is a very delicious soup.

I couldn't stop licking my fingers.

Egusi pepper soup step by step

1. Pour the blended egusi in a pot and add more water.

2. Add the rest of the ingredients just like you are cooking peppersoup.

3. The add the fish gentle so it wont scatter.

4. Add seasoning and cover to boil until the fish is cooked.

5. Taste the soup for seasoning and adjust to your taste.

If you are new to the Nigerian Cuisine, one of the first soups you would have heard of is Egusi soup.

This soup is however a combination of two popular nigerian soups.

Soup making was in the weekend plans too.

You see weekends are my bulk cooking time.

It helps me keepSane during the week.