How to Cook Delicious Okra and egusi soup

Okra and egusi soup. This is okra and egusi soup made the Cameroonian way. Click here for the full recipe. How to make Nigerian Egusi soup

Egusi (pumpkin seed) soup in general is favorite in West Africa and has many. Egusi & Okra Soup 🇳🇬#EndSars 🇳🇬 Ретвитнул(а) Walter Shaub. Egusi soup is unarguably the most popular Nigerian soup. You can have Okra and egusi soup using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Okra and egusi soup

1. Prepare 1 cup of Spinnach.
2. You need 1 cup of Okra.
3. It's of Egusi half cup.
4. You need of Meat.
5. It's 3 of Garlic.
6. Prepare 2 of Nutmeg.
7. Prepare 1 of Onion.
8. Prepare of Scotch bonnet.
9. You need of Curry.
10. Prepare 4 of Maggi.
11. You need of Palm oil.

In my few years as a food blogger and Nigerian food lover, I have learned that different recipes exist across different Nigerian ethnic groups. The Yorubas make efo elegusi while the Igbos make ofe egusi, all with similar ingredients but with. Have you ever think of cooking something different or try to improvise, I did on this food. This is one of the soups I once prepared several years back but I didn't have time for it anymore.

Okra and egusi soup instructions

1. Set a pot on fire with palm oil, when hot add the chopped onion and stir. Then bring the sliced okra and add to the chopped onion and stir again.
2. Cook for 3minutes then remove from the fire and put it in a bowl.
3. Add water to the pot and put it on fire again and add the grinded egusi and stir. Cover the pot and leave until simmer.
4. Add the meat and stir.
5. Add the fried okra and stir.
6. Add the grinded garlic,nutmeg,crushed bonnet,maggi and curry powder.
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8. Add small water to the soup because as it is cooking it will become thick and cover the pot until simmer.
9. Lastly add the chopped vegetable and stir, then remove the pot from fire and allow the vegetable to steam..
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11. This are the ingredients that i used.
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13. This soup can be served with tuwon shinkafa, pounded yam and semovita.

Until this particular day, I went to the nearby market and couldn't get Ugwu leaves to make the kind of soup I wanted. This slimy soup called okra soup is made differently in various countries. I also make it in various ways in my kitchen. Sometimes plain, sometimes with Ogbono (a slimy friend to Okra) and sometimes with Egusi. We all love this version made with Egusi.