Easiest Way to Winter Appetizing Melon seed soup with Bitter leaves

Easiest Way to Winter Appetizing Melon seed soup with Bitter leaves Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Melon seed soup with Bitter leaves. Egusi soup (A Melon Seed Soup/Stew). Tons of spinach or bitter leaves makes it a well rounded meal served with fufu or rice. A unique dish that will leave you wanting more.

Below is a recipe for a delicious melon soup with bitter leaf.

You can cook it in three different ways, such as bitter leaf with egusi (melon seeds), bitter leaf with ede (coco-yam), bitter leaf with achi, bitter leaf with offor, and bitter leaf with ogbono.

In this article, I will be discussing how to cook bitter leaf soup with coco-yam because it is my favorite style for bitter leaves.

You can cook Melon seed soup with Bitter leaves using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Melon seed soup with Bitter leaves

1. It’s 1 of Small Onion chopped.

2. It’s 1 1/2 cup of Grinded Melon seeds.

3. Prepare 3 tbsp of Grinded Crayfish.

4. You need 3 tbsp of Grinded Chilli pepper.

5. Prepare 1 can of Dried stock fish.

6. You need 2 cup of Warm water.

7. Prepare 2 piece of Know or Maggi small cubes.

8. It’s 3 tbsp of Palm Oil.

9. It’s 2 pinch of Salt.

10. Prepare 10 piece of chicken legs.

11. It’s 1/4 cup of Dried bitter Leaves.

Ingredients for Egusi soup usually vary but the major thing needed is the ground seeds (melon seed).

It also has different variations according to the locality and culture.

Egusi soup can be cooked with various leaves of choice, like pumpkin leaves, spinach, ukazi, and even washed bitter leaf.

This soup can be made with either egusi (melon seeds), ede (cocoa yam), ofor, achi or even ogbono.

Melon seed soup with Bitter leaves step by step

1. Pour 2 cups of water in pot to boil.

2. Add uncooked chicken and chopped Onion, Allow boil for 7mins.

3. ADD 1-2 pinches of salt, allow boil 3 Tablespoons of pepper.

4. Now add 2 piece Know or Maggi small cubes and 3 tablespoons palm oil.

5. Now add 1 1/2 grinded melon seeds Allow boil for 10mins and stir, then add 1/4 cup of dried bitter leaves or sprinkle a handful..

6. Once cooked serve.

Yes, we made the ogbono soup video with bitter leaves.

But the most popular of them all is the cocoa yam and bitter leaves combination - what we have below.

How to prepare Bitterleaf Soup (Ofe Onugbu) It will work well to balance the flavor of the soup especially when the bitter melon leaves are added.

The bitter melon (ampalaya) leaves has a purpose in this recipe.

It actually makes the soup taste better and it provides additional nutrients.