Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pounded yam and egusi soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pounded yam and egusi soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pounded yam and egusi soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Learn how to make Nigeria's most popular soup Egusi. Egusi soup is popular in Western Africa. The soup is thickened with ground melon, gourd, or squash seeds. Look for the seeds in African or International grocery stores.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pounded yam and egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded yam and egusi soup:
- Take Yam
- Prepare Salt
- Prepare Sugar
- Make ready Water
- Get Egusi soup
- Take Egusi seed powder
- Make ready Red oil
- Make ready Spices
- Prepare Seasonings
- Make ready Grated onion and red pepper
- Take Spring onion
- Take Veg leaves of ur choice
- Prepare Stock meat
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. Nigerian Soups are those special sauces that accompany the major Nigerian food commonly known as Fufu.
Instructions to make Pounded yam and egusi soup:
- For the pounded yam: peel the yam and cut into medium size. Wash and settle in a cooking pot. Add water to cover the. yam and add salt and sugar to balance the taste. Boil for about 15-20 mins and turn off the heat, be sure that the water is not completely dried because you will need them while pounding
- Pick with a fork and transfer in to mortar and go ahead and pound wit pestle. Pound until the yam are seedless and can easily be molded, you can add warm water(preferably used water from boiling the yam) and pound until u have a smooth soft pounded yam.
- You can mold as you wish but i use plastic containers wit little vegetable oil inside. Fill the container with the pounded yam and gently pull out to achieve the desired shape.
- For the egusi soup: place the red oil in a clean pot and add little grated onion, let it saute for some second and add the grated red pepper and onion. Fry until it change the colour and add egusi powder, turn continuously until the aroma start knocking ur nose😃.
- Add spices, seasonings, spring onion and stock meat
- Turn well and cover for 15 minutes while stirring occasionally. Add sliced vegetable leaves of ur choice
- Let it cook for some minutes and serve
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Egusi soup and pounded yam is such a mouthwatering and appetising dish to behold. Nigerian Soups are those special sauces that accompany the major Nigerian food commonly known as Fufu. Fufu is a generic name for food you swallow All other soups not mentioned above are low carb Nigerian Soups. Watch out, some may be high in fat. The trick is to read the ingredients for each.
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