Food challenge contest week #91|| For kids and parents| How to Make Egusi Soup by @rossnenye

Hello everyone, good morning to you all. Hope you all had a wonderful night rest? Welcome back to my blog. It's week #91 in our weekly cooking contest, today I will be teaching the parents and kids how to prepare Egusi soup.

The English name for Egusi is called melon. It's proteinous nature. Aside the fact that it is very easy to prepare, It is also naturally sweet. This soup is eaten by almost all the tribes in my Country Nigeria. The soup can be eaten with fufu, Garri or Semovita, some people even eat it with white rice. I will start by listing the ingredients.

Ingredients

Egusi

Red oil

Meat, you can equally use any protein of your choice aside from egg.

Stock fish

Seasoning cubes

Salt to taste

Onions

Fresh pepper

Grinded crayfish

Fresh Vegetables, you can equally use bitterleaf.

Procedures
Measure out the Egusi. With the aid of a dry blender or hand grinding machine grind it and set it aside. I grinded mine in the market.

Wash and parboil the meat. I usually parboil the meat together with the stock fish. Make sure to add ingredients like salt, onions, seasoning cubes to the meat in order to give it a taste. Cook the meat until it's tender.

Use salt and hot water to wash the stockfish in order to remove sand.

After parboiling the meat, add enough water to cook the soup inside the cooking pot.

Allow the water to boil.

Add the grinded Egusi to the pot and allow it to simmer.

Add crayfish, red oil and onions.

Add salt and seasoning cubes to taste.

Allow it to simmer.

Stir the soup

Wash, cut and add the vegetable.

Cook for a while.

Turn off the heat.

Your delicious Egusi soup is ready, you can eat it with any swallow of your choice, I had mine with Eba.

Thanks for reading through, I invite @akareen, @dorothy and @favbae to participate in this contest.