Hello everyone, welcome to Hive learners creative Sunday, so it's been a while since I have made an entry here on Creative Sunday and I'm so excited to make an entry today, So today I'll be showing you all how I prepared egusi soup.
Egusi soup it's the local name here in Nigeria but it is also called melon in English so to make it more official and Sweeter I'm just going to stick with calling it egusi soup.
So without further ado I'll just go to aheard and tell you the process of making this delicacy so stay tuned.
Recipe:
Egusi
Palm oil
Crayfish
Seasoning
Salt
Pepper to be blended
Onion
Chicken
Kpomo
Stockfish.
Pumpkin leaf
Locust beans (optional)
PROCEDURES:
The first step is pouring your egusi in a bowl and adding water into the bowl of egusi
Next is preparing your pepper onion crayfish and whatever needs preparation
pumpin leaf
Locust beans
In this video I had already steamed my chicken the previous night that is why I don't have an image of the chicken being cooked so if you are using chicken, meat or fish you know that you are supposed to stem it, asini cook it a bit so that it doesn't have that rawl look and taste.
So to cooking proper, first I heat up my palm oil, add a bit of salt to it, according to my mom it is a good thing to add salt to the palm oil.
Next I added my onion blend mixed with pepper and crayfish, I stirred till saturated
Next I added my egusi , I was supposed to add the locust beans in with the peeper , so you can do this part like this too.
I stirred and stirred this mix so the egusi could fry well and have a good look at the end.
I went in with my chicken stock,cowskin,and stockfish, I stirred again so that it wouldn't get stuck to the bottom of the pot , I covered for a while and then went to add the chicken and seasoning, crayfish and salt to taste.
After it cooked for a while I added the pumpkin leaf and allowed it on the heat for some minutes and then I quenced the heat
I served this soup with semo, but it can be eaten with any swallow of your choice depending on what you prefer.
This Melon or Egusi Soup is a very nutritious soup here in Nigeria, it is very high in protein, fibre and essential fatty acids that the body needs, you definitely can't go wrong with egusi
I enjoyed preparing this meal for my family because it was the first meal of the year which was January 1st, Somehow I felt honoured to have been given the opportunity to cook for everyone nay home, even when visitors came , they were still served this soup.
So let me know in the comment section which swallow you would have, if I were to dish this soup for you. Hehehe.
All images here are mine
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