Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pounded yam with egusi 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 Egusi Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
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 get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pounded yam with egusi soup using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup:
- Make ready Pounded Yam
- Take 1 big Yam
- Make ready Pinch Suger
- Get Salt
- Take Water
- Prepare Egusi Soup
- Take Egusi
- Make ready Chicken
- Get Spinach
- Prepare Palm oil
- Get 1 big Onion
- Make ready 2 red bell pepper
- Prepare 1 Tomato
- Take Whole roasted shrimps
- Prepare Crawfish powder
- Prepare Salt and seasonings
Other food in the swallow group includes fufu - made from cassava flour, Eba, Amala, and more. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with.
Steps to make Pounded Yam with Egusi Soup:
- Peel the yam into a medium sizes, wash and pour it into a clean pot and add water
- Add a little bit suger to bring out d taste and bitterness from the Yam
- Drain d yam from the pot after cook and pour it into a mota or pounding machine and pound till soft
- Remove from the mota and make a shape of ur choice, mine is round😘
- Cut the chicken into pieces, put it into a clean put and add onion, curry, seasoning and salt to taste. Cover and leave to boil for some minutes
- In another clean pot add palm oil and a dice onion, fry till the onion is golden brown. U can add small garlic if u like but is optional
- Blend the red bell pepper and tomato, then pour it inside the palm oil and fry it also
- Diced the onion and mixed it with the Egusi, then add water bit by bit to the egusi until you form a thick paste
- Scoop the Egusi and let it cook for like 15mins on a low heat
- After boiling the chicken, then fry it a bit and add d chicken together with it stock into the egusi
- Add some whole roasted shrimps and crawfish powder, add curry, seasoning and a pinch of salt to taste
- Add spinach after cooking for like 10min
- Stir it well and leave it for 5min
- Serve with a drink of choice. My pounded Yam and Egusi Soup is ready to serve, so Yummmmyyyy
In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with. This is a special Egusi Soup for those who do not like Egusi Soup prepared the usual way. If Egusi Soup is not your favourite soup for one reason or Ground Egusi (melon) seeds are used to prepare this Nigerian soup recipe with an intercontinental taste. It has been known to be enjoyed by people.
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