How To Prepare Melon (Egusi) Soup || by @guttaboy

Greetings to everyone and all the lovely kids in this nice community. I'll be teaching us all how to prepare melon (egusi) soup in the week 26 of food challenge. Please have a good time learning and leave a nice comment.

Ingredients Required

Grounded Melon (2 cups)
Periwinkle/ Isam (2 cups)
Cube season (Add to taste)
Sliced Onions ( This is optional)
Salt (Add to taste)
1/4 liter of palm oil
Bitter leaf
Ground crayfish (Add to taste)
Fresh Pepper
Kanda/ Meat (Whichever is desired)
Thickener (ofor)

Melon mixed with water, to form paste

Seasoning cubes, grounded crayfish, kitchen glory and Thickener

Palm oil

Sliced onion

Salt

Sliced kanda meat

Bitterleaf

Fresh pepper

Periwinkle (Isam)

Proceeding To The Cooking

• Step 1: Pour in your oil, and allow to heat for at least 1minute.

• Step 2: Pour in your melon paste and the sliced onion. Stir and allow to fry for at least 3minutes. Continuously stir while frying to avoid burning.

Pouring in the melon paste and sliced onion

Stirring the mixture so it doesn't get burnt

• Step 3: Pour in your Kanda/Meat or fish and continue to stir for at least 1minute

Adding my Kanda

Stirring continuously

• Step 4: Pour in water as you desire, depending on the qauntity of your thickner. Cover the pot and the content to cook for at least 7 minutes (depending on your cooker).

•Step 5: Add your seasoning cubes, crayfish, already grinded pepper, salt and periwinkle to taste. Cover the pot and allow content to cook for another 10 minutes.

Adding seasoning cubes

Adding pepper

Adding periwinkle

Adding crayfish

• Step 6: Add your thicker. Cover the pot and allow the content to cook for another 10 minutes.

Adding thickner (ofor)

• Step 7: Put in your bitterleaf and allow cook for another 5 minutes.

Adding the bitterleaf

Adding the bitterleaf

• Step 8: After allowing to cook for 5 minutes, your soup is ready. Turn off your cooker and bring pot down. Soup can be served with garri or fufu.