Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds
Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, efo elegusi-vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Also wash the pumpkin leaves /spinach and drain. Mill the pumpkin seeds to a fine powder Heat up palm oil in a pot, add chopped onions, fry, add pepper, let that fry a little too, add the assorted meat, beef stock, smoked fish and ground crayfish. Let the pepper stock reduce sufficiently Efo elegusi is made with ground melon seeds and vegetables such as spinach or fluted pumpkin (ugwu). It is enriched with various protein such as meat, fish and prawns.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook efo elegusi-vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds:
  1. Make ready 1 cup ground pumpkin seeds
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup Red oil /Palm Oil
  3. Prepare 1 full onion sliced
  4. Prepare 1/2 cup grounded cayenne pepper/ freshly ground red pepper
  5. Get 3 spoons locust beans
  6. Get 1 cup periwinkles (out of shell)
  7. Get 1 large smoked fish
  8. Get 3 spoons ground crayfish
  9. Take 1 plate of assorted meat (offals /beef/Pomo)
  10. Make ready 1 plate of freshly sliced Pumpkin leaves/spinach
  11. Get 1 table spoon salt
  12. Make ready 1 bullion of Knorr stock cube
  13. Prepare 2 spoons vegetables oil(optional

The blog is well populated with Egusi soups of different styles but today's version is one of the ways the Yoruba tribe of Western Nigeria cook their Egusi soup. If you can't find egusi seeds, you can substitute pumpkin seeds. Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. Egusi soup ,also known as obe efo elegusi/ ofe egusi, is a delicious nigerian soup that is made with ground melon seeds and enriched with assorted meat.

Instructions to make Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds:
  1. PREPARATION:; Firat you prepare all your ingredients by washing your periwinkles and cleaning the smoked fish, wash your assorted meat and set it on the fire to boil till it’s tender, while you wait slice your onions and also wash your locust beans ( they sometimes have some shell particles in them so Watch out. Also wash the pumpkin leaves /spinach and drain.Set all these aside.
  2. In a clean pot, add some red oil/palm oil to the pot and let it heat up for 2 minutes and it looks almost crystal clear. Add your sliced onions and stir for a minute to 2 minutes. Now add your prewinkles and let the stir fry for a minute, Now add your ground pepper/fresh pepper to the oils and add your boiled meat to the pot, this should simmer for about 3 minutes now add your smoked fish and the grounded crayfish.
  3. Now you add your vegetables as well as the salt and bullion stock cube, if you have some stock from the boiled meat you can add a spoon or two (large serving spoon).in a small boil add two spoons of groundnut oil to the groused pumpkin seeds and mix throughly,now form it into small balls and add it to the vegetables and cover for two minutes and then stir. Remember to stir carefully as not to break the fish into pieces. You can serve your Soup with Eba/ Semo/Fufu/pounded yam/Amala/Rice. Enjoy

Egusi soup is an exotic hearty food that will satisfy your taste buds. Egusi soup ,also known as obe efo elegusi/ ofe egusi, is a delicious nigerian soup that is made with ground melon seeds and enriched with assorted meat. Egusi soup ,also known as obe efo elegusi/ ofe egusi, is a delicious nigerian soup that is made with ground melon seeds and enriched with assorted meat. I can tell you, this soup is the truth. In my few years as a food blogger and nigerian food lover, i have learned that different recipes exist across different nigerian ethnic groups.

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