Egusi soup

Name: Egusi soup
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1 bowl pumpkin leaves (ugu); 1 bowl blended melon seed (egusi) and cup of crayfish; 1 bowl Iced fish; Small bowl of stockfish; Bowl kpomo (ganda); 1/4 cup grounded dried Cameroon pepper; 1/4 cup MJ's assorted spices; 1/4 cup Iru (daddawa); Handful Uziza leaves; 1 bowl red oil; Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions; Oil to fry fish; Seasoning

MJ's Kitchen @mjrena

Lagos

This is the kind of soup that when your husband finish dining... He will crown you a chef 😅

MJ's Kitchen @mjrena

Lagos

This is the kind of soup that when your husband finish dining... He will crown you a chef 😅

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Ingredients

1 bowlpumpkin leaves (ugu)
1 bowlblended melon seed (egusi) and cup of crayfish
1 bowlIced fish
Small bowl of stockfish
Bowlkpomo (ganda)
1/4 cupgrounded dried Cameroon pepper
1/4 cupMJ's assorted spices
1/4 cupIru (daddawa)
HandfulUziza leaves
1 bowlred oil
Chilli, scotch bonnet,. Red pepper, onions
Oil to fry fish
Seasoning

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Steps

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I am going to be detailed here with my step by step cooking method. Ingredients loading.....
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....... Roughly blend your onions and peppers. Share your spices and seasoning into 3 portions.
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In a pot of water boil stock fish + kpomo + a portion of your seasoning and spices.+ Onions + Iru for 30 min. Then boil your blend with a portion of spices and seasoning+Cameroon pepper with Iru till dry.
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Am going to fry my fish because is not a one time dine soup but am going to preserve it in the freezer, so I need my fish to be firm for a longer period.
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Put Palm oil and fry onions for 2 min. Then add the egusi and stir fry(mind you stir fry if not it will get burnt) you will notice it getting formy,continue to stir
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Add a portion of spices and seasoning, stir fry till the foam pipes down
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Add the boiled kpomo and stockfish+dried fish and you can add water based on the consistency (thickness)you want and allow for 10 min
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Add Uziza leaves (my Uziza 🤩 the scent is cloud 9) for 2 min
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Add ugu and fried fish and allow simmer for 2 min
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Then....
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You know! When he entered the house, he was like baby I have been perceiving this aroma from down the street 😅😅. I didn't mention names😅 Su Santi manya😀