Summary DELICIOUS EGUSI SOUP RECIPE

Recipe for Igbo (Nigerian) Egusi Soup

Ingredients:
Egusi, goat meat, cow skin (kanda or pọnmọ), stockfish (okporoko), palm oil, Habanero peppers,
onions, crayfish, thyme, curry, garlic, Knorr cubes, bitter leaf, ọkazi leaves, salt


 Wash the goat meat, cow skin, and stockfish
 Season with pepper, onions, garlic, curry, thyme, Knorr cubes, and salt
 Add water and cook until they say soft (about 30 – 40 minutes)
 Dissolve the egusi in hot water and stir
 Pour palm oil into a clean and dry pot on the stove
 Add salt
 Add onions and pepper, then crayfish, allow to fry
 Add egusi, stir, do not allow it to get burnt
 Add stock (broth) from the meat
 Allow to boil while stirring occasionally
 Add the meat, stir, and allow to boil
 Add the bitter leaf
 Add Knorr cubes
 Add ọkazi leaves
 Stir, allow to boil for a couple of minutes
 SOUP IS READY
Egusi soup is eaten with pounded yam, garri (made from cassava flakes), akpu (made from
cassava flour)