Recipe: To Try At Home Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup

Recipe: To Try At Home Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup. Great recipe for Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup. Am not particularly in love with Egwusi soup ( I have my special Preference) but Egwusi with Dried Water leaf soup holds a special spot in my heart because my Dad taught me how to make it. The aroma, taste and texture is simply beyond.

The best ways to prepare Egusi Soup would be with bitter or Water leaves as the soup tastes best with these ingredients.

Two methods of cooking Egusi Soup: Egusi Soup (Caking Method): I also call this one the Egusi Before Oil method.

No frying is involved, making it a healthier way to prepare Egusi Soup.

You can have Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup

1. Prepare of Assorted Beef.

2. You need of Stockfish.

3. You need 2 of Dried Fish.

4. Prepare of cow skin aka ponmo.

5. Prepare 2 of milk cups of Egwusi ground smoothly.

6. It’s 2 of Cooking spoon full of Palm oil.

7. Prepare 2 handful of water leaf. picked washed and finely chopped.

8. Prepare 1 of Cooking spoonful of grinded crayfish.

9. Prepare of Periwinkles.

10. Prepare of Dried Shrimps.

11. It’s of onions finely chopped.

12. You need of fresh yellow pepper pounded or grind.

13. It’s 1 tsp of black pepper.

14. It’s of Stock cubes (optional).

15. Prepare to taste of salt.

Akpuruakpu Egusi: where the ground egusi is moulded into balls and cooked in the soup such that you will be eating the egusi balls like meat while enjoying the meal.

Nigerian Egusi soup can be cooked with vegetables like (ugu) (fluted pumpkin), amaranthus (Aleho, green), tomatoes, bitter leaf, Spinach,water leaf and so on.

Egusi soup tastes great with all those green leafy vegetables but honestly, waterleaf has a way of softening the soup and making it so enjoyable and easy to swallow.

Boiling method: Check out how I have used both methods in this lumpy egusi soup recipe.

Egusi with Dried Water leaves Soup step by step

1. Washed the meat with pomo and season with onion, garlic, salt, pepper, a bit of ginger and cook till tender..

2. Add stockfish and allow to cook till tender too… Add about a jug of water and allow to boil.

3. Put the already grinded Eguwsi in a small mortal, add salt, onion and fresh pepper and pound till it starts to lump together and brings out oil.

4. When the meat and stock fish boils, add the lumpy egwusi. with the two spoonfull of palm oil and allow to cook for about 10 mins before you stir the content…

5. After that throw in the washed Dried fish, periwinkles and Dried shrimps and stir cook for another 10mins. (You always need to allow the Egwusi cook properly).

6. By now, the soup is becoming thick, add your crayfish, pepper and taste for salt..

7. Lastly add the finely chopped dried water leaves and give a good stir and 1 tsp of black pepper. (it gives the soup a unique flavour and taste)

Allow to cook for some minutes and that"s it…Egwusi with Dried water leaves is ready to eat…..

1. It goes well with Pounded Yam, Wheat, Semo or Samvita..

How to cook egusi soup in simple steps.

Add ground melon to a bowl, add about a cup of water and mix to form a paste then set aside.

Wash and chop the spinach, drain in a colander and set aside.

Once that is done, your egusi is ready to be served.

Also Read: How to make zobo drink in no time with video.