Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pounded yam and egusi soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pounded yam and egusi soup using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup:
- Prepare Tuber of yam
- Prepare leaf Bitter
- Make ready Egusi
- Take Pepper
- Make ready Tomato
- Take Onions
- Take Beef
- Prepare Assorted meat
- Take Maggi
- Make ready Salt
- Get Groundnut oil
Most folks outside the shores of Nigeria are yet to completely grasp the idea behind pounding yam. On this page, I want to tell you everything you will. Pounded Yam is a staple in many West African homes, but it is not usually eaten by itself, it is often paired with many delicious African soups, and stews. Other food in the swallow group includes fufu - made from cassava flour, Eba, Amala, and more.
Instructions to make Pounded Yam And Egusi Soup:
- For the pounded yam, peel and wash tuber of yam, dice into large chunks add water in a pot and allow to boil. When yam is soft, strain out excess water and keep aside. Put boiled yam (preferrably little by little) in a mortar and pound with pestle until soft and no evidence of lumps. Add little water (from excess water drained from yam) if Yam gets sticky and hard to pound. After getting soft lumpless texture, mould into a ball and put in Santana(transparent leather).
- For the Egusi soup, boil beef and assorted meat and set aside (keep stock for later). Cut bitter leaf and wash thoroughly. Blend pepper onions and tomatoes and add groundnut oil to fry to make stew. Add water and beef stock to fried stew, add assorted meat and beef, Maggi, salt, to taste then cover and allow to boil for 10 mins. Add Egusi and also allow to cook for 10 mins then finally your bitter leaf goes in for 5 mins. Your Egusi soup is done
Pounded Yam is one of the Nigerian fufu recipes that is made from boiled and pounded white yam. Pounded yam and egusi don dey hungry me naw. Egusi Soup is a finger-licking good Nigerian soup made with a white variety of pumpkin seeds. It is spicy, nutty with exotic African flavors! These days, yam flour is available in African stores and on Amazon so you can easily make your own pounded yam at home.
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