Egusi Soup

Name: Egusi Soup
Total time: 70 min
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1⅓ cups Ground egusi (melon seeds); 65 ml Palm oil; ⅔ Large onion; 2 Scotch bonnet peppers; 335 g Assorted meat, pre-cooked; 135 g Stockfish or dried fish, weighed dry, then soaked as needed, deboned and cooked tender; 1⅓ cups Chopped ugu or spinach; 1⅓ cubes Seasoning cubes; 2 cups Beef stock; As needed Water

NigerianMedium70 min

"The soup that tells you how good a cook someone's mother is."

Ground melon seed cooked into soft curds with leafy greens, palm oil, prepared meat and dried fish. Serves 4 with separately prepared swallow.

Origin

West Africa · Nigeria

Part of the Nigerian Table.

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