Egusi Soup

we all have come across this delicious nigerian soup made from melon seeds,its has a great taste and aroma.

• 3 cups melon seeds/egusi (ground)
• 2 handsfull chopped ugu leaves (pumpkin leaves).
• handfull properly washed bitter leaves
• Quarter cup palm oil
• 1 tbsp grinded cray fish.
• stock fish.
• pomo.
• 1/2 kg beef meat,cowstrip,intestine etc.
• 4 atarodo/scotch bonnet
• 1 onion (chopped).
• 4 stock cubes.
• salt to taste.

procedure

• wash and cook the meat, stock fish, cow intestine, pomo, cow strip with onions,salt to taste and stock cubes together.
• Now remove the meat from the pot leaving only the meat stock and set on the cooker.
• Boil the meat stock, add ground egusi and ground cray fish into the pot of meat stock.
• Now keep cooking, stiring the egusi while add water if it dries up, this process should take at least 30mins on low heat.
• Cook the egusi till very tender or till you notice some oil puree on top.
• Keep stiring and cooking while adding water when every it dries up.
• After 30mins and you are satisfied it the thickness of the egusi if you are not add little water to your taste.
• Add the palm oil and blended atarodo and cook on low heat while stiring for another 15mins.
• After 15mins pour back the meat /stock fish etc back into the pot.
• Add ugu /bitter leaf depending on which ever one you are using.
• Allow to simmer for 5mins and it’s ready.
• serve with eba pounded yam etc.