Fastest Way To Cook Egusi Soup
By Toyin
Only one pot needed. No simultaneous cooking. No frying. Your ingredients, fire, and good timing are all you need to make this delicious egusi soup. This is how you cook egusi when you are strapped for time.
INGREDIENTS
~1 cup Egusi (melon seeds) finely ground
~100 ml Palm oil
~5 fresh peppers
~1 big onion
~2 tbsp ground crayfish
~3 stock cubes
~5 pieces stock fish
~2 dry fish
~Meat (Assorted)
~500g Shredded bitter leaves.
PREPARATION
1) Most bitter leaves sold in the market are already per-cooked to remove excess bitter taste. If you are using fresh bitter leaves plucked straight out of the garden, you will need to cook in water until excess bitter taste is reduced.
2) Grind peppers, crayfish and melon seeds.
METHOD
1) Cook meat and stock fish in minimal water. Cook with chopped onions and 2 stock cubes. Cook for about 30 minutes until the meat is soft.
2) Add about 100 ml of palm oil to the well cooked meat. Now add the dry fish and allow to cook for 2 minutes.
Add palm oil to the cooked meat
3) Add ground peppers and crayfish.
4) Add 1 stock cube and salt to taste.
5) Stir in the finely ground egusi. Add little more water if too thick. Allow to cook for about 3 minutes until the egusi clearly separates from the palm oil.
6) Add the bitter leaves.
Add bitter leaves
Stir to mix
7) Stir to mix. Allow to cook for 2 minutes and your delicious egusi is ready to be savored with eba or amala etc.
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Yumilicious&fast,does d egusi bcms thick?
Hi Jany.
The egusi’s thickness depends on how much water you added or how much ground egusi you used. The more water less the thickness; the more the egusi the thicker. And also when cooking egusi using this method as the egusi boils it tends to get thicker as it absorbs the water.
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