Login to Your Account

Username or Email Address

Password

Remember Me

Personal Details

Your personal data will be used to support your experience throughout this website, to manage access to your account, and for other purposes described in our privacy policy.

Recent Listings

Name: Egusi Soup and Water Leaf
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Africana, Nigerian
Ingredients: 500g gbure (water leaf) or more chopped and rinsed. Substitute with baby spinach; Few pieces of goat meat optional, substitute with any other protein of choice; Beef stock; 1-2 wraps of Iru (locust beans); 300g ground melon; 1-2 tablespoon palm oil; Seasoning cube to taste; Salt to taste; Smoked fish, cleaned; Ground crayfish; 2 red bell peppers; 2 scotch bonnet chillies (ata rodo); 1 large onion; Handful basil, optional

Vanilla Cake
Continental
Strawberry Cake
Continental
Cupcake
Continental
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Continental
French Fries
Continental

From the Blog

Social icons

Product Categories

Cake
Ingredients
Kitchen Utensils
Other
Vendors
- Bakers
- Caterers
- Chefs

0

Cart
Submit Recipe

Home
Vendors
Recipes
- Drinks
- Foods
  - Africana
  - Continental
  - Cuisines
    - Nigerian
    - Ghanaian
- Create Recipe
Shop
Foodnify
Blog
0

Cart
Submit Recipe

Egusi Soup and Water Leaf

Embed recipe to your website, blog, or article

Egusi Soup and Water Leaf

45 min

12 steps

Powered by: Foodnify

<div style="padding: 25px 40px; border: 1px solid #e5e3eb; border-radius: 5px;padding-bottom: 40px;"><div style="display: inline-block; margin: 0 10px 10px 0"><a href="https://www.foodnify.com/recipes/egusi-soup-and-water-leaf/" title="Egusi Soup and Water Leaf"><div class="featured-icon"></div></a></div><div><div class="blog_custom_listings"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-3"><a href="https://www.foodnify.com/recipes/egusi-soup-and-water-leaf/" class="relative"><img style="border-radius:10px;max-width: 100%;"src="https://www.foodnify.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/egusi-water-soup-150x150.jpg" class="img-responsive" alt="Egusi Soup and Water Leaf" /></a></div><div class="col-md-9 text-left"><h4 style="margin-top: 0px;"class="post-name-listings"><a style="font-size: 20px;"href="https://www.foodnify.com/recipes/egusi-soup-and-water-leaf/">Egusi Soup and Water Leaf</a></h4><div class="foodhub-meta"><div class="listing-duration" style="padding: 5px 15px;line-height:15px;border-radius: 30px;background: #FFC42B;color: #fff!important;display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.foodnify.com/cooking-time/45-min/" rel="tag">45 min</a></div><div class="listing-steps" style="padding: 5px 15px;line-height:15px;border-radius: 30px;background: #FFC42B;color: #fff;display: inline-block;">12 steps</div></div><span style="float:left;color: #606060;font-size: 16px;margin-top: 5px;">Powered by: <a href="https://www.foodnify.com" title="Foodnify" style="color: #528f2d; font-weight: bold;font-size: 16px;">Foodnify</a></span></div></div><div class="clearfix"></div></div></div></div>

Add to Favorites

Print

Description

Egusi Soup and Water Leaf Soup is one soup can hardly do without. Egusi Soup and Water Leaf is a local delicacy to the people of Abeokuta in Ogun State, one of the Western State in Nigeria. If you haven't try this soup before, kindly add it to your family soup menu.

CategorySoup

Total Time45 min

DifficultyIntermediate

Yields4 servings

CuisineAfricana, Nigerian

Ingredients
The Steps
Media
Author
Related

First of all, check if you have all the necessary ingredients for this recipe. Pay attention to the quantities!

500g gbure (water leaf) or more chopped and rinsed. Substitute with baby spinach
Few pieces of goat meat optional, substitute with any other protein of choice
Beef stock
1-2 wraps of Iru (locust beans)
300g ground melon
1-2 tablespoon palm oil
Seasoning cube to taste
Salt to taste
Smoked fish, cleaned
Ground crayfish
2 red bell peppers
2 scotch bonnet chillies (ata rodo)
1 large onion
Handful basil, optional

Next, follow the steps to finalize your dish and finally be able to enjoy it!

You can choose to use the vegetable fresh or blanched before adding to the egusi soup. If you want to blanch the vegetable,
In a blender, add red bell pepper, scotch bonnet chillies and onions with little water and blend till smooth. Empty into a bowl and set aside (you can blend the locust beans with the pepper if you want)
Add washed meat to a pan, add salt seasoning and chopped onions and bring to boil till tender, reserve stock for the soup.
Mix the ground melon with warm water to form a paste and set aside
Place a pan on a medium heat, add the meat stock and palm oil and bring to boil for about 5 to 10 minutes
Add the melon paste to the pan in bits and stir into the stock/palm oil mixture and stir gently to combine.
Add the locust beans.
Add little water if need be and continue to cook for another 10-15 minutes making sure you stir intermittently till well cooked and almost lump free.
Add the blended pepper and cook for another 5-8 minutes.
Add crayfish, the meat, seasoning and salt (be careful when adding salt to soup that contains stock as you might not be needing salt if the stock was well seasoned
Add half of the smoked fish to the egusi soup and stir to combine and cook for another 5 minutes
Add the waterleaf (gbure) to the egusi and stir to combine, add the remaining smoked fish, chopped basil and carefully stir into the soup and cook for another 5 minutes. Take it off the heat and serve with swallow of your choice

This recipe has no photos or videos attached!

Added by foodnify

Leave a Review

Cost

Time

Difficulty

Overall Review

Share Recipe

Made with by: Scnip