Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, egusi pepper soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Egusi pepper soup is a popular Nigerian Pepper Soup dish. It's particularly common among the people of Niger-Delta. It is basically an Egusi (melon seeds) infused pepper soup dish.
Egusi pepper soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Egusi pepper soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have egusi pepper soup using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egusi pepper soup:
- Get Melon 1 milk cup
- Prepare Scotch bonnet
- Make ready Cayenne pepper
- Take Onions
- Get Ginger
- Make ready Fish (you may decide to use meat too depending on your choice)
- Get Blended pepper soup spice mix
- Get Salt
- Get cubes Seasoning
- Prepare leaves Scent
It has a runny consistency with bits of egusi here and there but also a Egusi pepper soup is otherwise known as Ovwovwo soup by the Urhobos in Nigeria. I must say this soup is a very delicious soup. I couldn't stop licking my fingers. If you are new to the Nigerian Cuisine, one of the first soups you would have heard of is Egusi soup.
Steps to make Egusi pepper soup:
- Wash your fish. Blend Scotch bonnet, Cayenne pepper, onions and ginger together. Fry your Egusi in a dry pot and blend dry. Set them aside
- In a clean pot, put your washed fish. Pour in your blended pepper, egusi, pepper soup spices mix, 3 cubes of seasoning, little salt and pour water well above the fish level and place on fire to boil for 15mins. As it boils, it gets a bit thicker.
- Wash your scent leaves and pour into the boiling soup. Allow it to boil for another 5-10mins. You can serve with pounded yam, starch, eba or any swallow of your choice. I served mine with semo. Bon appetitè
Egusi pepper soup is quite easy to make, as easy as making pepper soup but with the addition of egusi (ground melon seed) takes it from being a side dish to the main meal. You can choose any protein of choice for the soup. It is a healthy dish too as there is no oil 'serenre' which makes it good for any fitfam. Enjoy my Egusi Pepper soup with pounded yam. The typical ingredients used for Egusi soup are peppers, Onions, Locust bean and crayfish and we also like to add either beef, Goat meat or dry fish.
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