Recipe: At Home Egusi soup with achara and ukazi leaves

Recipe: At Home Egusi soup with achara and ukazi leaves Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Egusi soup with achara and ukazi leaves. Ukazi soup is totally different from afang. There must be achara for a soup to be called ukazi soup and egusi isn't used as thickener when cooking ukazi soup. I'm from Umuahia and it is our native soup in Ikwuano.
Popular vegetable options for Egusi soup are Ugu (Pumpkin leaves), Spinach and Bitterleaf, Soko and Okazi.
I usually use either Ugu or Bitterleaf for my Egusi soups but I had the joy of getting my hands on fresh Okazi leaves at the weekend and thought to try using some for Egusi soup.
Just like you find in other dishes, onions is vital in cooking egusi soup, it makes the soup or it gives the soup that sassy taste.
You can cook Egusi soup with achara and ukazi leaves using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Egusi soup with achara and ukazi leaves
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Prepare 1/2 kg of Pomo(meat).
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You need 15 stalks of Achara.
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It’s of Salt.
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It’s 2 of cksp Red oil.
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It’s 2 of Maggi.
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You need 2 of cksp Crayfish.
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It’s 40 g of osu.
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It’s 2 cups of egusi.
Onions can be put more than one times in the course of cooking the egusi soup.
It can be put intermittently as the cookinggoes on.
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Egusi soup is also one of the most popular soups, if not the most popular for all Nigerians and non-Nigerians that like Nigerian fufu recipes.
Egusi soup with achara and ukazi leaves instructions
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Blend the egusi and osu together but crayfish separately..
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Peel the achara by removing the coarse outer husk till you get to the tender part..
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Break the tender part into 1cm long pieces.any part of the shoot that is not easily breakable should be discarded..
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Rinse the pieces of achara and keep aside..
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Wash the pomo very well and boil with 45minutes..
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Fry the egusi with red oil for 5minutes with continuous stirring to avoid it getting burnt..
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Pour in the pomo and more water for the soup and boil for 7minures..
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Then put crayfish,fresh pepper,Salt,maggi and leave it to boil..
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Slice the ukazi leave and pound lightly..
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Put the achara and ukazi and leave it to boil for 2minutes..
Okazi Soup (Ukazi Soup) is the Igbo version of the Efik's afang soup.
It is a delicious Nigerian soup made with a mixture of vegetables (Afang /Okazi leaves and water leaves or spinach), assorted fish, meat, spices and a soup thickener, which can be either achi, ofor, ukpo or egusi This is not just ordinary molded egusi that scatters as you cook the soup.
These disc shaped molds of egusi should be intact and solid by the time the soup is done such that the person enjoying the soup can bite into and chew them like meat.
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Afang soup and ukazi are the same.