Egusi soup with ugu and bitter leaf

Name: Egusi soup with ugu and bitter leaf
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: Egusi (melon); Tomatoes; Fresh pepper; Cow meat; Onion; Palm oil; Crayfish; Stockfish; Maggi; Salt; Ugu; leaf Bitter

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AustBrill Kitchen Affairs AbjMom32 @cook_13860365

Nigeria

Try it and enjoy

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Ingredients

Egusi (melon)
Tomatoes
Fresh pepper
Cow meat
Onion
Palm oil
Crayfish
Stockfish
Maggi
Salt
Ugu
leafBitter

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Steps

1

Wash and boil your meat with seasoning, salt and pepper
2

Add your stock fish to the meat on fire while boiling
3

Pick and grind your egusi (melon). Then pour it into a clean bowl and add water just alittle above it to soak it. (This helps to prevent lumps)
4

Wash and blend your tomatoes and pepper coarsely and set aside
5

Pick and wash your bitter leaf and set aside (pls leave a little bitter taste, so it is not completly washed) or else the essence of the bitter leaf would be defeated.
6

Same with your ugu, pick, wash and slice finely and set aside
7

Chop your onion and set aside
8

Rince a clean pot and place on fire. When hot, pour in your palm oil, when the oil is hot, but not bleached, add your onion and stirfry till translucent.
9

Add your tomatoes and pepper and keep stiring. Leave on fore for a while to dry up
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There after, add your soaked egusi, and keep stiring or else it would get stuck to the pot and burn. So you must stir continuously till it is dry.
11

Add your blended crayfish and keep stiring for like 2 mins, then add your washed bitter leaf and keep stiring for another 1 min.
12

At this point, you add you meat and stock fish together with the meat stock. Cover and allow to cook for a like 2 mins then taste for salt and maggi and add to taste.
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After about 3mins, add your washed ugu leave, cover to seamer for 1min then put down from fire.
14

Your soup is ready! You can eat it with any swallow of your choice.