Tee’s special Melon soup (egusi)

Name: Tee’s special Melon soup (egusi)
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 cups grounded egusi; 500 g Assorted; 1000 g chicken; 3 red bell pepper; 4 big onions; 5 medium tomatoes; 10 cayenne peppers; 6 big scotch bonnet pepper; 2 cups grounded crafish; 7 stock cubes; 2 tablespoons salt; 2 tablespoons locust beans (iru); 1 cup red oil; 4 cups shredded spinach (ugu); 1 tablespoon curry and thyme

Oluwaseun Joyce @cook_110949855

Egusi is a common soup in most African countries and people have various ways in preparing it. It is my special soup because I have made this recipe a lot of times for a lot of people and I don’t think I would have made this much if they didn’t like the recipe

Oluwaseun Joyce @cook_110949855

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Ingredients

1 hr

5 people

2 cupsgrounded egusi
500 gAssorted
1000 gchicken
3red bell pepper
4big onions
5medium tomatoes
10cayenne peppers
6big scotch bonnet pepper
2 cupsgrounded crafish
7stock cubes
2 tablespoonssalt
2 tablespoonslocust beans (iru)
1 cupred oil
4 cupsshredded spinach (ugu)
1 tablespooncurry and thyme

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Steps

1 hr

1

PREP PROTEIN
In a pot, cook the assorted meat and chicken with 1 scotch bonnet, 1onion, seasoning cubes, Curry, Thyme and salt for 30 minutes.
2

PREP PEPPER BASE
Prepare pepper base by blending all the peppers into a rough paste.
3

PREPARE EGUSI SOUP
- In a pot, heat the palm oil,add the washed locust beans (iru) and add the egusi paste. Stir fry for about 5 minutes until the egusi is really fried and clumpy.
4

Make egusi paste by mixing the grounded melon with stock water from the protein and chopped onions. Make sure paste is slightly thick.
5

Add the roughly blended pepper, a little bit of the stock and allow to boil for 10 minutes.
6

Add the blended crayfish and the protein, mix to incorporate,add seasoning and salt according to taste. Cover to cook for 10 minutes
7

Add the chopped spinach and cook for additional 3 minutes.
8

Serve the egusi soup with pounded yam, or any other swallow of your choice.