Easiest Way to Fall At Home Lumpy Egusi soup

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Lumpy Egusi soup. Her Egusi soup is one you eat and it remains ever green in your heart (oh yes!). For my mum, tomatoes in her native lumpy egusi soup is a NO NO, crayfish must be placed whole if she is to use any as she would say it interferes with the texture and final outcome of the egusi color when grinded. Egusi belongs to the Gourd family.

Wash meat and stock fish and place in a medium-size pot over medium flame.

Nigerian Egusi soup texture and taste varies depending on the region in Nigeria where the recipe originates from.

In the south east the soup is commonly thick and creamy.

You can cook Lumpy Egusi soup using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lumpy Egusi soup

  1. It’s of Egusi.

  2. Prepare of Palm oil.

  3. Prepare of Cray fish.

  4. It’s of Beef.

  5. It’s of Stock fish.

  6. Prepare of Cow skin(ponmo).

  7. It’s leaf of Bitter.

  8. You need of Tatashe.

  9. You need of Yellow Pepper.

  10. It’s of Onion.

The soup is prepared with a lumpy texture in South West Nigeria.

Egusi soup is one of the most popular soups in Nigeria.

This soup is made from melon seed and it's very tasty, rich in protein and fat.

There are different ways of cooking egusi.

Lumpy Egusi soup step by step

  1. Mix a little water with the egusi to make a lumps.Put a fridge to make it strong..

  2. Place your pot on fire,add your palm oil,allow it to get hot,add the grinded pepper and tatashe and a little..

  3. Wash your beef and ponmo,cook till it gets soft,keep the stock aside..

  4. Add the beef stock to the fried ingredients,add the beef,ponmo,cray fish,stock fish,salt and seasoning.Add the lumpy egusi,cover and allow to cook on a low heat,add the bitter too..

I have four different recipes which i'll be sharing starting with lumpy egusi aka Oshiki as my Yoruba people call it… Egusi soup and Eba is my winning meal any day.

This evening despite not doing so great, I decided to teach my flatmate how to make Egusi soup.

Teaching guys to cook is always an experience.

Egusi is one the most widely consumed soups in Nigeria, it's prepared by most tribes.

Egusi is ground up shelled melon seed.