Recipe: Appetizing Egusi soup with scent leaf and uzuza seed

Recipe: Appetizing Egusi soup with scent leaf and uzuza seed Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Egusi soup with scent leaf and uzuza seed. Uziza Egusi soup is just a twist on the regular egusi soup made with pumpkin leaves. This West African dish made with a local melon seed (Egusi) and leafy green vegetables. This soup is prepared by most tribes in Nigeria in many different ways.

It's made from ground melon seeds, cooked in a rich pepper mix and meat broth with a handful of leafy vegetables.

Uziza can be used as a leaf or as its seed, which is usually dark and tiny in size.

Uziza seed is first ground before use while uziza leaf can be shredded or used as a whole leaf depending.

You can have Egusi soup with scent leaf and uzuza seed using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Egusi soup with scent leaf and uzuza seed

1. It’s of Granded egusi.

2. You need of Red oil.

3. Prepare leaf of Scent.

4. You need of Uzuza seed.

5. Prepare of Salt.

6. Prepare of Yellow pepper.

7. It’s of Crayfish.

8. It’s of Stockfish.

9. Prepare of Dry fish.

10. You need of Goat meat.

11. It’s of Onion etc.

12. You need of Tomato paste.

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Fresh Pepper Now I know that I can reduce the oil content in my soup.

The scent leaf in this recipe is used sparingly because it can be overpowering.

If you don't find scent leaf, then fresh basil will do.

Egusi soup with scent leaf and uzuza seed step by step

1. Boiled the fish, meat, dry fish and kpomo with seasoning..

2. When its done, put it down..

3. Drain the stocks, put the pot on fire,add a little red oil,immediately add salt, onion,tomato paste, stair a little and add the egusi you have soak with little water and little red oil..

4. Keep stairing for 2mins and add the stocks and the water..

5. Add your pepper crayfish and seasoning.. kpomo,uzuza seed, periwinkle should also be added..

6. Then allow to boil for 5mins.

7. Then add your scent leaf and ready to serve..

Grab some swallow or rice and enjoy Egusi soup with Scent leaf.

Recipe for Egusi with Scent leaf.

This egusi soup recipe can also be garnished with other leafy vegetables such as ugu, bitter-leaf, ukazi, utazi, garden egg leaves, Soko, Tete, and so many others.

Also, you can prepare this soup with tomatoes, without vegetables, or made to appear lumpy or with vegetable oil Great choices are ewuro (bitter leaf), Gbure (water-leaf), amunututu (malabar spinach), uziza, tete (calallo), spinach, ugu (fluted pumpkin leaf), and kale, collard and or scent leaf (efirin).

Yoruba style egusi contains iru and is prepared with a stew or sauce base (sans tomatoes), best for parties.