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It’s a pleasure for me to share this special recipe with everyone here. Welcome to my food blog. Today, chef @adylinah will present recipe of a delicious delicacy called; Egusi ( melon) soup. Melon soup recipe is very simple and easy to prepare at any given time. Everyone has their different methods on how to make this soup including me. I will show the step-by-step preparation process of my melon soup recipe.

Ingredients Used

• Melon
• Onions
• Fresh pepper
• Chicken and iced fish
• Periwinkle
• Salt
• Maggi
• Palm oil
• Bitter leaf
• Stock fish

Preparation Procedures

Step 1: the first step for this recipe is to mix blended melon in a pot and boil for 20 minutes.

Boiling melon

Step 2: wash, spice and steam chicken and fish together. After few minutes, add stock fish.

Steaming chicken, fish and stock fish

Step 3: Pour melon into the pot, add palm oil (red oil) and cover it to cook for 8 minutes. It is healthy to boil melon properly.

Pouring melon to the pot	Adding palm oil

Step 4: Add other ingredients ( crayfish, maggi, salt, and pepper).

Adding crayfish	Adding periwinkle	Adding the last ingredient which is bitter leaf

Step 5: Add periwinkle, allow it to boil for 2 minutes before adding bitter leaf and cover to cook. Few minutes later, my delicious melon soup was ready.

Here’s the result: Delicious Soup well served

Please note that the bitter leaf was washed before use. Bitter leaf is very healthy in soups and in absence of it, hot leaf can be used in melon soup as well.

This is a very simple recipe, you can prepare at the comfort of your home with these easy to get ingredients. I hope you like the outcome of this recipe. Thank you for scanning through my food blog, it was indeed a pleasure sharing this recipe with love.

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