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Africans Foods with Egusi Seeds
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Egusi Seeds are the highly nutritious seeds of a type water melon found widely in Africa. The seeds are the main ingredients of the egusi soup.
Egusi seeds (Colocynthis Citrullus) is a widely cultivated and consumed in West Africa. The seeds popularly called ‘egusi’ contain about 53% oil, 28% protein and some other important mineral nutrients.
Ingredients:
2 lb of diced boneless goat meat
Dried Asiko Shawa Bonga fish
2 chopped onions
Salt
4 Maggi cubes or meat stocks
3 cups of of water
Asiko chilli pepper
Asiko dried prawns
Smoke Asiko Crayfish
2 cup of whole Asiko Egusi
Frozen spinach
How to make your Egusi Soup with this Africans Foods ?
- Put the goat meat in a medium pot.
- Rinse the dried fish and add it to the pot.
- Add 1 onion, salt to taste and 2 Nigerian Maggi cubes.
- Add 3 cups water and bring to a boil on high heat. Reduce heat and simmer for 30 min.
- Meanwhile, put the chili pepper and the remaining onion in a blender and tomato puree.
- Scrap the onion, pepper mixture into a bowl and set aside.
- Put the shrimp, crayfish and melon seeds in a clean blender and blend until a powder forms.
- Put it in a bowl and set it aside.
- Squeeze the excess liquid from the spinach and set aside.
- After 30 minutes, check the meat.
- If it is still tough, add more water to the pot so that cooking liquid covers the meat.
- Continue to cook until the goat is fork tender, add the onion pepper mixture and cook 15 minutes.
- Reduce heat to medium and add the melon seed mixture.
- Cook 30 minutes longer and add the spinach, the oils and the 2 remaining Maggi Nigerian cubes.
- Cover the pot and cook for another 15 minutes.