Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pounded yam and egusi soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna 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 favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Pounded yam and egusi soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pounded yam and egusi soup using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded yam and egusi soup:
- Get Yam
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Sugar
- Get Water
- Prepare Egusi soup
- Take Egusi seed powder
- Prepare Red oil
- Prepare Spices
- Make ready Seasonings
- Prepare Grated onion and red pepper
- Take Spring onion
- Get Veg leaves of ur choice
- Make ready Stock meat
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.
Steps to make Pounded yam and egusi soup:
- For the pounded yam: peel the yam and cut into medium size. Wash and settle in a cooking pot. Add water to cover the. yam and add salt and sugar to balance the taste. Boil for about 15-20 mins and turn off the heat, be sure that the water is not completely dried because you will need them while pounding
- Pick with a fork and transfer in to mortar and go ahead and pound wit pestle. Pound until the yam are seedless and can easily be molded, you can add warm water(preferably used water from boiling the yam) and pound until u have a smooth soft pounded yam.
- You can mold as you wish but i use plastic containers wit little vegetable oil inside. Fill the container with the pounded yam and gently pull out to achieve the desired shape.
- For the egusi soup: place the red oil in a clean pot and add little grated onion, let it saute for some second and add the grated red pepper and onion. Fry until it change the colour and add egusi powder, turn continuously until the aroma start knocking ur nose😃.
- Add spices, seasonings, spring onion and stock meat
- Turn well and cover for 15 minutes while stirring occasionally. Add sliced vegetable leaves of ur choice
- Let it cook for some minutes and serve
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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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