Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pounded yam with egusi soup and chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup and Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup and Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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. Pumpkin seeds, also known as pepitas, can be substituted and are available in Latin American grocery stores.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pounded yam with egusi soup and chicken using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup and Chicken:
- Make ready Pounded Yam
- Take 1 Medium Yam
- Prepare Pinch suger
- Get Salt
- Get Water
- Prepare Egusi Soup
- Get Egusi
- Take Chicken
- Get Spinach
- Prepare Palm oil
- Prepare I big onion
- Get 2 red bell pepper
- Take 1 tomato
- Take Whole roasted shrimps
- Prepare Crawfish powder
- Get Salt and seasonings
This soup is best served with pounded yam, fufu or eba. The egusi soup is often thickened with ground melon seeds. The basic ingredients include assorted meat, dried fish, onions, fresh tomatoes. Pounded Yam is one of the Nigerian fufu recipes that is made from boiled and pounded white yam.
Steps to make Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup and Chicken:
- Peel the Yam into a medium sizes, wash and pour it into a clean pot and add water
- Add a little bit suger toward the end to even out the bitterness from the yam
- Drain the yam from the pot after cooking and pour it into a mota or pounding machine and pound till soft
- Remove for the mota and make a shape of your choice, mine is round😜
- Cut the chicken into pieces, put it in a clean pot and add onion, curry, seasonings and salt to taste. Cover and leave to cook for some minutes
- In another clean pot, add palm oil and a diced onion, fry till the onion is golden brown. You can add some garlic if u like but is optional
- Blend the red bell pepper and tomatoe, pour into the palm oil and fry it also
- Diced the onion and mix it with the egusi, add water bit by bit until you make a thick paste
- Scoop the egusi and let it cook for like 15 minutes on a low heat
- After boiling the chicken, then fry it a bit and add it together with its stock into the egusi
- Add some whole roasted shrimps and crawfish powder, add curry, seasonings and a pinch of salt to taste
- Add spinach after cooking for like 10 minutes
- Stir it well and leave for 5 minutes
- My pounded Yam with Egusi soup and chicken is ready to serve. Enjoy with a drink of choice 😘😙😚
The basic ingredients include assorted meat, dried fish, onions, fresh tomatoes. Pounded Yam is one of the Nigerian fufu recipes that is made from boiled and pounded white yam. Learn how to make the perfect stretchy Pounded Yam right here. The most popular combinations are Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup, Pounded Yam with Nsala or White Soup and many more. How To make Egusi soup In Nigeria, Learn To make this delicious Nigerian soup.
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