Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pounded yam with melon soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pounded yam with Melon soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Pounded yam with Melon soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Nigerian most popular local soup made with melon seeds, locust beans, palm oil, pepper, dry prawn, smoked fish and a dash of spinach etc. Melon soup also known as egusi soup is a popular soup recipe in the Western part of Africa. This soup is best served with pounded yam, fufu or eba. Egusi soup and pounded yam is such a mouthwatering and appetising dish to behold.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pounded yam with melon soup using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded yam with Melon soup:
- Take 1 Yam tuber
- Take 1 bunch spinach
- Make ready 1 cup grounded melon(also known as egusi)
- Prepare Spices and seasoning
- Make ready Palm oil 4table spoons
- Take Stock fish
- Take Beef or meat of your choice
- Make ready 2 Chopped red chilli
- Prepare 2 Chopped onion
Pumpkin seeds, also known as pepitas, can be substituted and are available in Latin American grocery stores. Pounded Yam is a staple in many West African homes, but it is not usually eaten by itself, it is often paired with many delicious African soups, and stews. Then, we scoop some stew or soup over it and we eat it. Often time it's swallowed, but sometimes it requires a bit of chewing depending on the type.
Steps to make Pounded yam with Melon soup:
- Peel yam,wash,cook till soft and tender,pound it using mortar and pestle till smooth and soft,mould and keep in a warmer,keep a side 1
- In a pot on flame, add 2cups of water,wash beef,stock and add,add seasoning and chopped onion,let it boil for 30mins till meat is soft and tender,add a cup of water,add spices and seasoning,add (red chilli)pepper,add palm oil,add grounded melon,cover let it boil and thickens,wash spinach and cut thinly, wash it thorougly again after cut,then add to the cooked melon,off flame and cover pot let the spinach simmer unflamely
- Soup is ready,serve with pounded yam
Then, we scoop some stew or soup over it and we eat it. Often time it's swallowed, but sometimes it requires a bit of chewing depending on the type. Pounded Yam and Ogbono Soup - A tasty and hearty Nigerian soup made from Ogbono seeds (bush mango seeds) added with pre-cooked meat. And paired with smooth, tasty and filling Pounded Yam for an extraordinary African meal experience! Pounded Yam is the most stretchy of all the Nigerian fufu recipes that is if it is well prepared.
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