Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, boiled yam and egusi soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Boiled yam and Egusi soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Boiled yam and Egusi soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Egusi soup is popular in Western Africa. The soup is thickened with ground melon, gourd, or squash seeds. Look for the seeds in African or International grocery stores.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have boiled yam and egusi soup using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Boiled yam and Egusi soup:
- Take Yam
- Get Egusi ~1cup
- Make ready Minch meat
- Get Cryfish
- Take Seasonings ~5cubes
- Take Palm oil ~2cooking
- Get Onion and pepper
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Prepare leaf Ugu
Time to get all traditional with one of my favourite Nigerian meals - iyan and egusi soup. It's also a staple dish from my home town (Ilesa). Iyan is the Yoruba name for pounded yam. The yam is boiled and then pounded to thick, smooth, dough-like consistency.
Steps to make Boiled yam and Egusi soup:
- Boil your yam and set aside
- Soak your egusi into little water
- Add oil in a pot allow to get hot and add in your soaked egusi and allow to fry till it turn like scrambled egg
- Add in your minch meat/cryfish and allow to simmer (you can add any meat or fish of your choice)
- Add in your onion and pepper till cooked and add your seasonings
- Add your ugu leaf and allow to simmer for 3mins….. And your stew is ready!
Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with. Melon soup also known as egusi soup is a popular soup recipe in the Western part of Africa. This soup is best served with pounded yam, fufu or For the egusi soup recipe, follow the steps outlined here.
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