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How to make Egusi Soup

Ingredients

Egusi (Melon) seeds - 3 cigar cups | 600g
Red Palm Oil – 2 cooking spoons
Beef – Best cut and Shaki (cow tripe)
Fish – Dry Fish and Stock Fish
Crayfish
Pepper and Salt to taste
Vegetable – Pumpkin leaves or Bitter leaf
Seasoning – 3 Maggi or Knorr cubes
Traditional Seasoning – 1 Okpei (optional)
Tools I used

Cooker: Buy it in USA | in UK
Deep Pot: Buy it in USA | in UK
Spice grinder for grinding egusi (melon) seeds: Buy it in USA | in UK
Spatula: Buy it in USA | in UK
Chopping board: Buy it in USA | in UK
Knives: Buy it in USA | in UK
Before you cook Egusi Soup

Before preparing the soup, soak the dry fish for about half an hour. Boil the stockfish for 20 minutes and leave in the pot with the hot water to soak for about an hour.
Much closer to your cooking time, grind the Egusi with a dry mill. Grind the crayfish and the dry pepper separately and set aside. Wash the vegetable to be used. Cut into tiny pieces.
Boil the shaki, stock fish and dry fish in 1 litre of water till they are well done. First sign of a done shaki is that the cuts will start curling on itself.
Wash the beef to be used for the soup and place in a pot and start steaming at medium heat. There is no need to add water at this stage. When the meat is done, add 3 cubes of Maggi/Knorr. This method makes the meat cook faster while retaining all the taste. Also meat contains lots of water and you will notice that the water content increases as the meat starts to boil.
Cooking Directions

There are two main methods of cooking egusi soup. These we will call oil before egusi and egusi before oil. Confusing? Not.
Oil Before Egusi

Put 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil is clearer, add the ground egusi and start frying. This should be done at low heat to avoid burning. Keep frying till you see the egusi getting drier. One sign of this is that it will start sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Now, start adding the shaki/fish stock little by little while still turning the egusi. When the stock is exhausted and you feel that the soup is still too thick, you can add more water. If your choice of vegetable is bitterleaf, it should be added now as well.
Cover the pot and cook for 30 to 45 minutes. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has risen to the surface of the mix and separated from the mix. If this is the case, add the fish, shaki and meat. Also add pepper and salt to taste. If pumpkin leaves (or any other soft vegetable) is your choice, please add it now.
Cover the pot and leave everything to steam together for 5 minutes.
The egusi soup is ready to be served with amala, Eba (garri), pounded yam or cassava fufu.
Egusi Before Oil

This method produces a healthier egusi soup. This is because there is no frying involved.
In this method, as soon as the shaki, fish and meat are done, remove them from the stock and place in a different pot or plate.
Add the ground egusi to the stock and cook for 40 minutes. You will notice the clear egusi oil coming to the surface of the soup.
Add 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil, the meat, fish, bitter leaves (if it is your choice of vegetable) pepper and salt to taste and cook for another 10 minutes. Now, add the pumpkin leaves if is your choice of vegetables, stir the soup and turn off the heat.
The egusi soup is ready to be served with amala, Eba (garri), pounded yam or cassava fufu.

Enjoy. . . .

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This is Lagos

Let me give you guys this simple illustration.
In Nigeria we have two federations, they are: Lagos and Naijiriya(wake up to suffer).

You should wonder why Ogun state motto is "The Gateway state". Gateway to where? Naijiriya. She's is the gateway to Naijiriya from Lagos in the country called Nigeria
If you like nack your head for wall or jump inside Lagoon

Eko oni baje, Never

ow to make Egusi Soup

Ingredients

Egusi (Melon) seeds - 3 cigar cups | 600g
Red Palm Oil – 2 cooking spoons
Beef – Best cut and Shaki (cow tripe)
Fish – Dry Fish and Stock Fish
Crayfish
Pepper and Salt to taste
Vegetable – Pumpkin leaves or Bitter leaf
Seasoning – 3 Maggi or Knorr cubes
Traditional Seasoning – 1 Okpei (optional)
Tools I used

Cooker: Buy it in USA | in UK
Deep Pot: Buy it in USA | in UK
Spice grinder for grinding egusi (melon) seeds: Buy it in USA | in UK
Spatula: Buy it in USA | in UK
Chopping board: Buy it in USA | in UK
Knives: Buy it in USA | in UK
Before you cook Egusi Soup

Before preparing the soup, soak the dry fish for about half an hour. Boil the stockfish for 20 minutes and leave in the pot with the hot water to soak for about an hour.
Much closer to your cooking time, grind the Egusi with a dry mill. Grind the crayfish and the dry pepper separately and set aside. Wash the vegetable to be used. Cut into tiny pieces.
Boil the shaki, stock fish and dry fish in 1 litre of water till they are well done. First sign of a done shaki is that the cuts will start curling on itself.
Wash the beef to be used for the soup and place in a pot and start steaming at medium heat. There is no need to add water at this stage. When the meat is done, add 3 cubes of Maggi/Knorr. This method makes the meat cook faster while retaining all the taste. Also meat contains lots of water and you will notice that the water content increases as the meat starts to boil.
Cooking Directions

There are two main methods of cooking egusi soup. These we will call oil before egusi and egusi before oil. Confusing? Not.
Oil Before Egusi

Put 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil is clearer, add the ground egusi and start frying. This should be done at low heat to avoid burning. Keep frying till you see the egusi getting drier. One sign of this is that it will start sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Now, start adding the shaki/fish stock little by little while still turning the egusi. When the stock is exhausted and you feel that the soup is still too thick, you can add more water. If your choice of vegetable is bitterleaf, it should be added now as well.
Cover the pot and cook for 30 to 45 minutes. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has risen to the surface of the mix and separated from the mix. If this is the case, add the fish, shaki and meat. Also add pepper and salt to taste. If pumpkin leaves (or any other soft vegetable) is your choice, please add it now.
Cover the pot and leave everything to steam together for 5 minutes.
The egusi soup is ready to be served with amala, Eba (garri), pounded yam or cassava fufu.
Egusi Before Oil

This method produces a healthier egusi soup. This is because there is no frying involved.
In this method, as soon as the shaki, fish and meat are done, remove them from the stock and place in a different pot or plate.
Add the ground egusi to the stock and cook for 40 minutes. You will notice the clear egusi oil coming to the surface of the soup.
Add 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil, the meat, fish, bitter leaves (if it is your choice of vegetable) pepper and salt to taste and cook for another 10 minutes. Now, add the pumpkin leaves if is your choice of vegetables, stir the soup and turn off the heat.
The egusi soup is ready to be served with amala, Eba (garri), pounded yam or cassava fufu.

Enjoy. . . .

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You don't have to respond to these men saying you have anger issues.
You are arguing against their beliefs that women should be foot-mats that is why they are looking for different ways to attack you.

nna eh,ur inglishi too much oh..no be all of us go school na.....since Awolowo maud, no free education dey again and public sch don dey collect money..na 4 my mechanic workshop wey i been dey type dz thn oh;work no dey jare.......make u no vex, d op topic no make sense so i gast find somthn else to yearn...take am easy oh;person lyk u go dey beat im babe oh !!!!!!!

Kobojunkie: Another dingbat who when he is unable to respond intelligently thinks that ASSUMING he has the opponents emotional state figured out from his computer screen/mobile phone, he can pretend to have the situation under his control.

Here's advice for you. Grow a brain and learn to argue issues rather than pretend you have intelligence beyond what you are working with.

man,chilllax..tot i was d only one that noticed this anger emanating from u.......so much bile in you.....naija s frustrating but u just have to plow along....gudluck

Kobojunkie: I am playing dumb? For pete's sake women, you accused me of being angry and I am asking you how to came to that conclusion when nothing in my post suggest anger of any kind.

I don't deny my intelligence, no I do not. What causes my confusion here is how you can, without ever meeting me, knowing my person or having access to my emotion-meter can conclude from mere words in my question there that I am angry. You are not even assuming this . . you CONCLUDED it is the case, from those mere words, and I want to know how you could do that, since all I did was type out my view and questions like I do everyday and flipped over to the next page.

hahahahahahahahahhahahaha!!!!!!!!lwkmd.....u be idottttttt...lol

Aro Okigbo: Why this interest in rockets?
Is he a muslim?

its dim witted youths like u that are actually the bane of the naija society.....wat proof do u have?because he initiated a health scheme?does the naija govt have any health plan for itz citizens?an american looking @ our situation ll equally call jonathan the antichrist then.....

binger: Obama is Antichrist

my frd,ssshhharrrrapppppppppppppppp...u shouldnt even b on the net...itz anti-western , u know...and BTW, y the hell did u apply for the American visa lottery

Sweetnecta: so a christian american drew amercan president with the backdrop being the ol glory. now the nigerian christians are using their not rioting about this to show the world muslims that they are no killers of souls.

interesting. the nigerian christians need to know that america does not care for anything but dollars. almost everyone in this society called usa has a co God with what he/she tells the world based on his/her spirituality. because everyone wants to be like the jones, 'almighty dollar" is the other God. few rejects this God. another few struggle to reject it, too. but many has a shrine where they bow to it in their hearts. sometimes it is because of poverty or trying to climb up the ladder to a greater height of affluence.


now. we have to agree that christians have killed because of religion, in cases where they are forcing people to convert, bibles in one hand and guns and or swords in other. colonialism may have started out because of national glory if it had no religious underpinnings. i seriously doubted it because you will see crosses on the ships/vessels and on the individual men as colonizers. the truth is that christianity did not affect the hearts of these evil forefathers of the christians to know that they should have stayed in their homes. even when satan drove them to other lands, they should have resisted the temptation of satan as they read Jesus did. they should not have punished, maimed, killed people who were indigenous as their hosts. the bibles have been used to dehumanize people as cursed, less than peers in the human race, enslaving men an women, old and young. it is from the bibles that jews were able to call us gentiles and chritians calling us infidels.


finally, christianity didnt stop either King George to invade Afghanistan and preemptively decimated Iraq nor stopped Emperor Barack to kill Osama. both were justifiable actions in spite of chrstianity in the lives of both leaders. turning the other cheek is easy on the tongue, but it is not possible for the speaker of it to simply literally practice it. thats hypocrisy.


if the muslims do not blame the christians when the muslims have a rancor in there ranks, do you christians need to drag islam to your problems? clean your homes and put things in order and leave us out of your mess and while you are at it learn to stay in your lane.


muslims do not drag christians into shia and halawi and ahmadiyya and other sunni and even nation of islam's wahala. we either pray about it or deal with it by speech and some misguided people take arms to harm others, instead of showing mercy.

my frd,ssshhharrrrapppppppppppppppp...u shouldnt even b on the net...itz anti-western , u know

Sweetnecta: so a christian american drew amercan president with the backdrop being the ol glory. now the nigerian christians are using their not rioting about this to show the world muslims that they are no killers of souls.

interesting. the nigerian christians need to know that america does not care for anything but dollars. almost everyone in this society called usa has a co God with what he/she tells the world based on his/her spirituality. because everyone wants to be like the jones, 'almighty dollar" is the other God. few rejects this God. another few struggle to reject it, too. but many has a shrine where they bow to it in their hearts. sometimes it is because of poverty or trying to climb up the ladder to a greater height of affluence.


now. we have to agree that christians have killed because of religion, in cases where they are forcing people to convert, bibles in one hand and guns and or swords in other. colonialism may have started out because of national glory if it had no religious underpinnings. i seriously doubted it because you will see crosses on the ships/vessels and on the individual men as colonizers. the truth is that christianity did not affect the hearts of these evil forefathers of the christians to know that they should have stayed in their homes. even when satan drove them to other lands, they should have resisted the temptation of satan as they read Jesus did. they should not have punished, maimed, killed people who were indigenous as their hosts. the bibles have been used to dehumanize people as cursed, less than peers in the human race, enslaving men an women, old and young. it is from the bibles that jews were able to call us gentiles and chritians calling us infidels.


finally, christianity didnt stop either King George to invade Afghanistan and preemptively decimated Iraq nor stopped Emperor Barack to kill Osama. both were justifiable actions in spite of chrstianity in the lives of both leaders. turning the other cheek is easy on the tongue, but it is not possible for the speaker of it to simply literally practice it. thats hypocrisy.


if the muslims do not blame the christians when the muslims have a rancor in there ranks, do you christians need to drag islam to your problems? clean your homes and put things in order and leave us out of your mess and while you are at it learn to stay in your lane.


muslims do not drag christians into shia and halawi and ahmadiyya and other sunni and even nation of islam's wahala. we either pray about it or deal with it by speech and some misguided people take arms to harm others, instead of showing mercy.

before u start asking the couple questions, check whether ur hotel or the bar have alcoholics drink on display as i heard itz also a sin..plz confirm and get back to us...

So if d lady was ur daughter who u v watched grow tl sixteen before she suffered this coma, u would v her killed?ur wife or wife-to-be must be real proud of u,niggu....wonder what u wouldav done if u were abraham in d bible and ur wife hadn't a child @ 90yrz...probably have taken 2 more wives just in case

claremont: On the one hand a part of me wants to believe that this is an altruistic display of true love, but on the other hand, I would argue that it is simply pointless keeping someone in a vegetative state for 42 years. What is the point?! Why subject someone to that kind of indignity?! I wouldn't be surprised if the family claims to have done it because they believe that some form of miracle can still happen and the vegetative state will be reversed. It takes religion to make supposedly sane people do insane things IMHO.

Dextra: This story brought tears to my eyes. So much love and commitment. Do you know what caring for this woman will have cost the family? not in terms of finance but physically, they basically wouldn't have a life of their own. I will like to meet the sister and ask her how she did it because I know from experience it is not easy caring for unconscious patients.
It also made me think of all those patients who go into irreversible brain damage after cardiac arrest, how we ask the families to give permission to pull them off the ventilator (life support), although I always wish they'll wake up before the ventilator is switched off but they never did. This is a story of LOVE. I knew how hectic it was for me when I took care of a patient with brain cancer, how impatient I grew sometimes though I knew it wasn't her fault that she had to scream at the top of her voice in the middle of the night (every night and day) and keep the neighbours awake. When she finally passed on, I was relieved, not from caring for her but from the fact that she won't feel the pains anymore. Having to care for 42 byears! This is the epitome of Care! I pray God bless me with such.

best comment on dz thread yet....may d poor gurls soul rest in peace...people should imagine what it musta been like for d family of d lady aging from a sweet sixteen to a 59yr old woman and she never experienced anything together wid d family... Family wouldav suffered....think of d girls' father/mother who go out to work each day wid d image of their daughter in their minds....I m so dzappointed wid so many comments from nairalanders on this story...this isn't fiction

where is JACK BAUER when u need him

u talking about ur guy gay lover or what??

uj_sizzle: When he calls and says 'u no fit call pesin'. Doesn't he have a phone too?

Hate when a guy won't clean up after himself.

Hate when they start acting like we're best buddies cos i smiled n responded to a greeting.

And certainly hate a guy without manners.

Hate when I'm walking on the road and a guys i don't know calls from the other side n expects me to crossover. Like what he wanna say is important huh?

my friend grow up and act ur age.....give a simple reply as the op said and shut ur trap if u gat nothn gud to post....nitwit

shymexx: Didn't the guy resign because he was involved in some malpractices? - and is he the only qualified person for a ministerial post in a country of more than 150 million people? So much for Nigerian intelligentsia and academics smh...

You lot deserve the type of leaders you get... Perhaps, the assertion about the IQ of 69 has an element of truth to it...

mr seun, i wish u would hap on d fact that there wasnt any lady who contributed to this contest or even made half a quote or even summoned interest.....nt good

MATLAB;THE LANGUAGE OF TECHNICAL COMPUTING.........Sorry for interrrupting the contest and also for posting these as it may be irrelevant to some....also, dunno if to address this to the op or to everyone in general...For those who are interested in studying an ICT related course most especially in the area of Communication Engineering, Signal processing etc abroad, they should knw that there MATLAB knowledge and skillz must be quite good and strong. Itz much used for several courses than even ur c++;and nt just d basic stuff but for much more complex programming and simulations....No one will teach u..i repeat, no 1 will teach u...itz expected that u should have used MATLAB for ur undergraduate studies...U will even be ashamed to open ur mouth to state that u v nt used it sef;dunno hw many countless times i v spent in my sch library trying to catch up wid d stuff...Plz itz neccessary.......If a page or topic can be created for MATLAB users in the programming page, most of us will appreciate this as we can also use it to share ideas and all. Thanks

[b][/b]Hi peeps,dunno if to address this to the op or to everyone in general...For those who are interested in studying an ICT related course most especially in the area of Communication Engineering, Signal processing etc abroad, they should knw that there MATLAB knowledge and skillz must be quite good and strong. Itz much used for several courses than even ur c++;and nt just d basic stuff but for much more complex programming and simulations....No one will teach u..i repeat, no 1 will teach u...itz expected that u should have used MATLAB for ur undergraduate studies..;dunno hw many countless times i v spent in my sch library trying to catch up wid d stuff...Plz itz neccessary.......

hi sos sorry for not answerin most guyz concernin d exam materials levelz...kinda filled wid coursework @ this moment....plz when ur names are shortlisted lemme know so i can realllly settle and post the exam make up structure for y'all...gudluck and successs

itz dissapointing that there are no ladies who are interested in stuffs like this...i bet if there was a thread like 'how many men have broken ur heart' bla bla bla, we ll find all of them there....smh

i can only dance after 3 bottles of stout

lol..so after ur knowledge of all d process and reading of d moses's books'u should be on twitter with donald trump twitting bullshit to each other(as per rich levels) instead of going to a cafe to check d latest on nairaland

Sirniyeh: Pikin will always talk like pikin. Nobody will speak beyond the level of his understanding. It is only fools that will not believe in voodoo power. Money ritual is real, very very real. God is the creator of all this stuff, recipe for the rituals. This has been in existence since the time of MOSES in the bible. The secret behind it is that they invoke spirit to bring the money, and it varies. In year 2000, my barber did one type, after he used the soap, this gentle man walked in to his shop early morning and asked him to barb his hair. Immediately the man entered, he just left a briefcase full of dollar and left. The man will never come back for it. This man is a ghost. Till today, this man is no more barber but millionaire.
Again, there is another they call, "investment", if you place 100,000 inside, you will be getting 100,000 every till eternity but one must not meet another, that means you can travel.
Money ritual is real, it is just that people use human parts this day and that is why they die premature.
If you read sixth and seventh books of moses, you will understand how to invoke ghost to bring money for you.
All these are called "Prayer Additives". Ritual is prayer additive, ordinary prayer is not effective without rituals.
Please, God created roots and herbs for diverse uses but the fools classify it to be satanic.
My friend, money ritual is real. All what you watch in nollyhood are real. So, are you interested?

sammy_jay: i'm a yoruba guy but that does not gives me the right to threating any tribe living in the sw region,your speech looks imature next time pls try to be polite.

9ce 1 man.....and nigerians claim to be outraged when the white man behaves raciallly towards them...........bloody hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!

get a proper job biatchhhhhhhhhhhh

candieangel12: It's secure not secared.
You're welcome

berem: I hope NL front page won't be littered with the US elections today.we need news that concerns Nigeria and Nigerians.Mods take note!

how far d american dv lottery wey u apply for?result never show??

hey guys, i am newly arrived in the uk for my master studies...i opened a gtb pounds dorm account and left some money there in the hope that once i get here and open my uk bank account i will be able to transfer back via internet banking but i cant seem to see the tab for that online.....am i going about this the wrong way or is there a better way for me to do this...regards

phreakabit:

How to make Egusi Soup

Ingredients

Egusi (Melon) seeds - 3 cigar cups | 600g
Red Palm Oil – 2 cooking spoons
Beef – Best cut and Shaki (cow tripe)
Fish – Dry Fish and Stock Fish
Crayfish
Pepper and Salt to taste
Vegetable – Pumpkin leaves or Bitter leaf
Seasoning – 3 Maggi or Knorr cubes
Traditional Seasoning – 1 Okpei (optional)
Tools I used

Cooker: Buy it in USA | in UK
Deep Pot: Buy it in USA | in UK
Spice grinder for grinding egusi (melon) seeds: Buy it in USA | in UK
Spatula: Buy it in USA | in UK
Chopping board: Buy it in USA | in UK
Knives: Buy it in USA | in UK
Before you cook Egusi Soup

Before preparing the soup, soak the dry fish for about half an hour. Boil the stockfish for 20 minutes and leave in the pot with the hot water to soak for about an hour.
Much closer to your cooking time, grind the Egusi with a dry mill. Grind the crayfish and the dry pepper separately and set aside. Wash the vegetable to be used. Cut into tiny pieces.
Boil the shaki, stock fish and dry fish in 1 litre of water till they are well done. First sign of a done shaki is that the cuts will start curling on itself.
Wash the beef to be used for the soup and place in a pot and start steaming at medium heat. There is no need to add water at this stage. When the meat is done, add 3 cubes of Maggi/Knorr. This method makes the meat cook faster while retaining all the taste. Also meat contains lots of water and you will notice that the water content increases as the meat starts to boil.
Cooking Directions

There are two main methods of cooking egusi soup. These we will call oil before egusi and egusi before oil. Confusing? Not.
Oil Before Egusi

Put 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil into a dry pot and set on the stove to heat. As soon as the oil is clearer, add the ground egusi and start frying. This should be done at low heat to avoid burning. Keep frying till you see the egusi getting drier. One sign of this is that it will start sticking to the bottom of the pot.
Now, start adding the shaki/fish stock little by little while still turning the egusi. When the stock is exhausted and you feel that the soup is still too thick, you can add more water. If your choice of vegetable is bitterleaf, it should be added now as well.
Cover the pot and cook for 30 to 45 minutes. The egusi is done when you notice that the oil has risen to the surface of the mix and separated from the mix. If this is the case, add the fish, shaki and meat. Also add pepper and salt to taste. If pumpkin leaves (or any other soft vegetable) is your choice, please add it now.
Cover the pot and leave everything to steam together for 5 minutes.
The egusi soup is ready to be served with amala, Eba (garri), pounded yam or cassava fufu.
Egusi Before Oil

This method produces a healthier egusi soup. This is because there is no frying involved.
In this method, as soon as the shaki, fish and meat are done, remove them from the stock and place in a different pot or plate.
Add the ground egusi to the stock and cook for 40 minutes. You will notice the clear egusi oil coming to the surface of the soup.
Add 2 cooking spoons of red palm oil, the meat, fish, bitter leaves (if it is your choice of vegetable) pepper and salt to taste and cook for another 10 minutes. Now, add the pumpkin leaves if is your choice of vegetables, stir the soup and turn off the heat.
The egusi soup is ready to be served with amala, Eba (garri), pounded yam or cassava fufu



and btw, what are we discussing on nairaland today sef

you are senile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

*Ileke-IdI:
Ibhoes are their own enemy in Naija.

I said sth about ibhoes being behind boko haram a few months ago. O ma se!

vivian chinaza: Well, that was for my ex................I cooked for him with the last money I had on me.

tot u said in a post last week that u was a virgin and u never dated b4...or u got a boyfriend and broke up in 5days??...plz clarify

i think the best answer is King SOLOMON....y'all know why....