Chicken Soup with Potatoes

Here is a lovely recipe submitted by our very own amazing subscriber, We all should know Bella by now and also know anything that comes from her must be super great. Today she will be showing us how she made her own chicken soup with potatoes.., looking at this already shows that it will taste great.. We all love some great chicken soup recipe and check out how Bella made hers.. enjoy

Ingredients

Potatoes
Chicken
Garlic
Ginger
Seasoning
Onions
Green Pepper
Red Pepper
Scotch Bonnet
Tomatoes
Carrots
Peas

Directions

• For the potatoes y ou can either roast, cook or fry in your desired shape.

•  Wash chicken and place in a large pot, add water, garlic, ginger, seasoning and onions.

• Bring to boil

•  In a separate pot, pour vegetable oil,add onion and ginger, fry.

•  Add sliced green and red pepper, scotch bonnet, tomatoes and fry till dry,add your stock and chicken. You can debone or leave it. Cook. 

• Add carrots and peas when almost done.

• Simmer and serve.

Chicken Soup withSubmitted by Bella

Irish Potato and Veggie Soup

We love soups, and that is why we are always so happy when we come across new and  innovative soup recipes, Vivian sent in this cool irish potato and veggie soup recipe which we have tried out. This soup tastes great, looks great and is indeed healthy. It is a great dinner idea as you should always eat light for dinner. It is indeed a desirable meal for everyone who has tasted it, it will leave you wanting for more.

Check out how Vivian made this soup and try it out at home, you will not regret that you did.

Ingredients.                                                                                        

• ‎Flour
• Groundnut oil 
• Onions
• Fresh yellow peppers, black pepper, chilli
• Chicken/ snails, liver, kidney, chicken intestines. 
• Curry, thyme, salt, Stock cube, nutmeg
• Carrot, green peppers, spring onion, lettuce‎.                                                                          

Directions

• Spice your chicken, snail, kidney, liver, chicken intestine to taste  in a pot until it starts to bring out little water on its own . Allow the spices to heat into the meat and lower your heat for 15mins.

• Add water into your meat stock about a full cup and allow to simmer till meat is almost done.

• In a dry clean pot Fry two dessert spoons of flour in ‎a little preheated groundnut oil until its a little bit brown, add your already spiced cooked meat items.

• Mix the fried flour with the meat stock in the pot until its smooth, add in your already peeled and diced potatoes ( for me I cut in four equal halves).

• Allow to boil for 20mins 

• Add your sliced carrot, green pepper, onion, spring onion, black pepper to taste. Cut veggies the way you will like to see them in the pot but don't cut too tiny.

• Serve after adding the veggies as heat kills the veggies.  

Food Recipe Submitted By Vivian

Wedneday Food Menu with Excercise for weight Loss (NFC weight loss programme)

Good morning, it is Wednesday, and welcome to your weight loss programme course with NFC. We hope that you enjoyed the programme yesterday, and we also hope that you found it easy to follow through, if you did not, do not give up and we urge you to keep trying.

We have cool meals and exercise routines for you today, but as usual, before you start, we will like to draw your attention to the important things you most adhere to:

• Do not starve yourself.
• Drink water 30 minutes before any meal.
• When eating, eat slowly, this way, you eat less because your brain quickly picks up the signal of you being full.
• Stay away from soda and other processed drinks, if you have a craving for one, take a glass of water instead.
• Snack on fruits with low Glycemic index instead of road sides snacks that are not beneficial for your weight loss.
• Exercise, does not have to be the rigorous gym sort of exercise or jugging, start with walking maybe 30 minutes, use stairs instead of elevators, go to the park with your kids, just anything that will require you using your physical body.

Breakfast: you can have  an oat this morning, one great thing about the oat meal is that
you get filled up with just little quantity and you become less hungry almost through out the day, you can check our post on the oatmeal diet for weight loss. Check the post here

Exercise: take a walk today, but instead of a 30 minute walk, you may increase it to a 50 minute walk, you may or may not walk on a faster pace, this is depending on how much your body has accepted your new routine. Do not start pushing your limit yet. If you have your skipping rope, you can skip 20 times. If your body can take more, the better, but if it can not, you have to keep trying bit by bit until your body gets used to it.

Snack: As usual, have yourself a low glycemic index fruit.

Lunch: you can have the rivers native soup with wheat for lunch today, PKT taught us how to make this the easy way. Remember, if you must take meat, go for the goat meat and remember to trim fats, but we strongly recommend that you stick with fish (not catfish or titus fish), also use little palm oil, salt and seasoning. Check out to make it here.

Dinner: As we have emphasised previously, your dinner most always be light, today, you can have the Dambu for diner, this meal, submitted by Bilkisu is super healthy as it involves the use of vegetable like moringa leave, raw(not fried) groundnut etc. Check out to make it here.
We hope that you find it easy to follow todays programme, look out for Thursdays programme

Eba and Edikang-ikong soup

Edikang Ikong is that popular meal common among the southern eastern people of Nigeria, Though it may seem undesirable because it involves the use of mainly green leafy vegetables, Edikang Ikong is a delicious meal when you have a taste of it, This soup can be taken with any swallows like eba, fufu, wheat etc. It can also be taken with white rice.

The soup also come with a lot of health benefits accruing from the nutrients of green leafy vegetable, it is indeed a most have for every family.

The Edikang Ikong is cooked by people differently, though the outcome is usually the same or slightly different, here is how Deyinka made hers.

Ingredients.. 

Water leaf
Ugwu
Crayfish, 
Stock cube 
Onions
Cameroon pepper
Smoked ponmo
Palmoil
Dried and smoked fish
Rodo
Stock fish
Prawns
Goat meat/beef

Directions

• Rinse both vegetables well, slice onions, and grind pepper.. 

• Boil beef with onions ponmo, stock fish and fish, add salt and stock cube. 

• When beef is done, add crayfish, sliced pepper, more onions, and palmoil leave to simmer for 5-7mins. Check for salt.

• Add drained water leaf, stir and leave to cook for another 5-8 mins, then add ugwu and cook for another 6mins. 

• Turn off heat and serve with EBA.

Food Recipe Submitted By Deyinka

Chicken Pepper Soup and Potato

 

One of the amazing things about pepper soup is that its one of the few broths you can make to any quantity you please and it wont lose its spicy attribute. Their are numerous types pepper soup like the fish pepper soup, beef pepper soup etc. Though their taste may differ, they all have one thing in common, and that is the aspect of the soup being pepperish. Oluwakemi sent us this unique Chicken and potato pepper soup and here is how to make it.

Ingredients


Chicken
Pepper soup spices
Irish potatoes
Curry and thyme
Salt
Seasoning cube
Dry/ fresh scent leaves (efirin)
Onion
Black pepper
Ginger

Directions

Wash and boil chicken with onion, salt, thyme and curry (in very little quantity just to give the chicken colour without making the water too yellow)


When boiled, take out chicken and add pepper soup spices to any quantity you please, ginger, black pepper and seasoning cube.

Few minutes after boiling add washed scent leaves.


Boil potatoes with salt.

When the potatoes are boiled, peel and serve with the pepper soup.


If you don't put enough pepper it wouldnt be 'pepper' soup, it would just be chicken sauce and ginger.

Another great thing with pepper soup is that you can go to town with it. You can make spaghetti and enjoy them together, it can be enjoyed alone, with plantain, yam, bread or eba... Don't be afraid to try new compliments.
                        

Food Recipe Submitted By Alofe Oluwakemi

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Pounded yam , Efo riro and Turkey

 

Pounded yam is that one Nigerian cuisine, that most  Nigerians love to eat, it is tasty with an amazing texture that makes your mouth watery every time you come across it or eat it. Pounded yam accompanied with a nice Nigerian native soup like efo riro is just out of this world. Every one that has ever tasted this dish will always come back for more.

The pounded yam, though may be difficult to cook, it is still one of the most demanded food in Nigeria, no wonder business moguls now produce pounded yam flour to make the meal easier to cook.

Deyinka, who has sent us various recipes, sent us how she made her pounded yam the easiest way, she also sent us a Nigerian native soup (Efo Riro).

 

Ingredients
 

 

Yam,

water,

any green veggie of choice,

tomatoes,

pepper,

onions,

palm oil,

locust beans,

Stock cube,

dried and smoked fish,

turkey

 

Directions

 

Peel yams, cut into cubes and boil till soft.

Place in a food processor or stand mixer till it forms a dough. Scoop

Wash all ingredients, boil turkey with onions, smoked ponmo and add the fish after 5mins.

Boil the turkey in its juices first before adding water.

Blend pepper and boil till water evaporates.

Add oil in a pot, followed by onions and crayfish, add pepper followed by salt, stock cube and locust beans.

Add vegetables last and reduce heat. Turn off heat and serve with pounded yam.

 

Recipe Submitted By Deyinka

 

Okro in Sea Food with Swallow

Soups is one meal every Nigerian can not do without. Their are various varieties of soup that it is almost impossible to know how to make them all.

Nigeria soups are very good for the body as it involved using mostly green leafy vegetable, which are obviously basking with numerous health benefits needed by the human body everyday.

One of this soup is the one made with okra, okro soup which can be cooked in various ways. Apart from this soup having various health benefits gotten from green leafy vegetables, it is also tasty and can be made with a little amount of money. So look at it, tasty, healthy and cheap to make. JennyWihGod sent us how she made her okro soup in sea food and we have just one word for it 'B.E.A.UTIFUL'.

Ingredients;


Okro
Vegetable (Uziza leave ie hot pepper leave)
Shrimps
Prawns
Boneless Croca fish
Ginger
Ehuru
Red oil
Seasonings

 Directions

 Dice okro and onion, grind pepper, grind ginger and ehuru and serve out the water, cut uziza leave. Boil shrimp and prawns (fish in a diff pot)for about 5mins with seasonings to taste and set all aside.

In a warm pot, add little red oil, allow to cook for a min, add onion, ginger and ehuru water, add fish, prawns and shrimp-boil for 2 mins, add seasoning to taste, add okro and boil then uziza leave and then boil for 2 more minutes.

Your soup is ready.

N/B use as little water as you can to enable the soup come out thick

Can be enjoyed with any swallow of your choice.

Food Recipe Submitted by JennyWithGod



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POUNDO YAM AND EGUSI SOUP

 

Ingredient
 

Melon seeds,
Cray fish,
chicken,
chicken stock,
palmoil,
stock fish,
 ugu leaf,
 Dry Fish,
Afang Leaf‎,
wooden spoon,
locust beans,
Salt
ginger and garlic spice,
cinamon,‎
onions,
dry pepper,
groundnut oil.

Method for seasoning chicken
 

• cut chicken to desirable size and clean
• To the chicken, add ginger and garlic spice, dry pepper, cinamon(a pinch),stock cube and salt,make sure to rub the spices into the chicken and add 1/2 teaspoon of olive or groundnut oil and diced onions. Leave the mixture to stand for atleast 3-4hrs or overnight in a fridge.

Method for Egusi soup

Blend egusi with crayfish and onions

Into the egusi mixture, add little chicken stock and make to desirable thickness

Heat palmoil and add locust beans to fry a bit,add the egusi lumps to fry

Add pepper, chicken stock and seasoning ‎,stock fish and stir with wooden spoon 

‎
Add the chicken, dry fish and‎ ugu leaf cook for 3mins

Lastly add the afang leaf

Food Recipe Submitted by Akande Oreoluwa



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Miyan Gyada... (Groundnut soup) with fufu

One thing we appreciate about the Nigerian community is that, when you think you know all the soup in the country, you start to see new type of soups and you are just amazed by the innovation put into making this soups. That is one thing that makes the Nigerian nation a great one, our different ethnicity and groups has afforded us varieties in lifestyle, ideas and even food. One of this varieties sent by our subscriber (Deyinka) is the Miyan Gyada, also known as the groundnut soup.

This soup is a great idea to add to your food menu and you will just love it unique taste and texture.

Ingredients

 

2cups groundnut

Spinach leaves

Tomatoes

Pepper

Bell pepper

Ginger(optional)

Beef

Crayfish

Dried fish/stock fish

Locust beans

Salt and stock cubes to taste.

 

Directions

• Blend pepper with ginger, toast groundnut in a dry non-stick pan for 5 mins and blend to powder, blend crayfish separately, mix with blended groundnut.

 

• Boil beef , dry fish with one stock cube and onion with very little water for the juices to extract..

 

• Add a little stock from the beef to groundnut powder to form paste.

 

• Place a pot on heat, add palm oil followed by blended pepper. Fry till almost dry, add beef stock, followed by groundnut paste, if too thick add a little water to form a creamy consistency.

 

• Add your beef, locust beans, one stock cube and stir.

 

• Lastly add steamed spinach and leave to simmer for 3-5mins.

 

Serve with any swallow/morsel of choice ( I didn't peel my groundnuts)

For fufu.
Easy method.

 

1. Buy fufu powder and stir in boiling water till its ready when thick.

2. Buy ready made fufu.

3.From the scratch... Buy cassava tubers, peel and dice and soak for 3 days without changing the water to let fufu ferment. 

Drain tubers by placing in a cheese cloth and putting an heavy object on it. Let it sit for 2-3 hrs. Place drained tubers in a mortar and pound to a pulp.

Bring water to boil and stir pulp in water till it forms a paste OR boil drained tubers in water and pound to a pulp.  I've tried all 3 methods...

Happy cooking

 

 

 

Food Recipe/ Picture submitted by our very own subscriber Deyinka

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Wheat and Eforiro with Skinless Chicken Recipe.

Eforiro is a rich vegetable soup basking with green vegetables (spinach/efo tete), tomatoes, meat and sea foods. The eforiro is a popular food common amongst the inhabitants of the Western part of Nigeria, also known as the Yoruba's, it's a special dish made at home, parties and other events.

Eforiro can be eaten with any swallows (Eba, wheat, pounded yam, semolina, fufu etc) and also can be eaten with rice. Deyinka sent in this food recipe and selfie to teach us on how to make the efo riro better. Also, she has made wheat to complement this vegetable soup. Good healthy food for everyone

 

Ingredients.


Green vegetables(spinach/tete)
Tomatoes
Onions
Pepper
Dried fish(soaked overnight)
Skinless chicken
Palm oil
Locust beans
Crayfish (roughly blended)
2 stock cubes
Salt
 

Directions.
 

•  Blend pepper, tomatoes and 2onions. Boil till the liquid dries up.

• Rinse chicken and boil with dried fish, one stock cube, a pinch of salt and diced onion.

• Pluck, rinse and slice your vegetables, lightly Blanch them in hot water for not more than one minute. Set aside.

• Heat your palm oil add 2 sliced onion balls, followed by crayfish, fry till translucent and add your boiled pepper. Keep stirring to avoid burning. Add your 2nd stock cube, stock from the chicken and locust beans.

• When the fried pepper is almost drying up, add your boiled chicken and fish stir together then add the vegetables.

• Leave to simmer for 2 minutes and turnoff the heat. The steam from the pot would soften the vegetables more.

For the wheat
 

• Place a pot of water to boil.. Once it boiled keep stirring the wheat till it forms a dough. Then add a little water to soften it up, keep stirring till its a little softer dough.

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Rivers Native Soup ( Uhbomsoudo)

Nigeria has so many native soups, there is at least over 5 (five) soups each from the different tribes of the country. It is also important to note that most of this soups come with various health benefits as they are made with natural ingredients that are packed with a number of nutrients. In the area of soups, Nigerians are indeed lucky. This soup (shared by PKT) is a natives soup from the rivers state in Nigeria.

How to Cook Rivers Native Soup (Uhbomdoudo)

Ingredients:

Uziza leaf
Stock fish,
Goat meat,
Kpomo,
Snail,
Shrimps(periwinkle),
Ofor -Soup thickner
Big brown crayfish(aka Okporo),
Native crayfish,
Fresh yellow pepper,
Palm oil,
Seasoning.

Directions

• Wash the uziza leaf(2x),slice and set aside.
• Wash the goat meat,kpomo,snail and stockfish, place in a small pot, add seasoning of choice, onions, seasoning, salt, little amount of yellow pepper, stir(so the ingerdients blend in all the meat),do not add water, allow to boil, add little water and steam for 10 mins, then set aside.
• Place a moderate pot on heat and add water, palm oil, and allow to boil.
• Add ofor, pepper, grounded native crayfish, preferred seasoning and allow to boil for 2 minutes.
• Add the meat broth and stir, allow to boil for 2 minutes.
• Add the Okporo and periwinkle and stir.
• Add the Uziza leaf, stir two times and bring down pot immediately.

NOTE: check the level of water when adding the Ofor, let it not be too thick or too watery. Thank you!!!


Food Picture/ Recipe Submitted by Priye . K. Tamuno

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Ewedu

Ewedu soup is a green, slimy soup mostly eaten by the western people of Nigeria, that is the Yoruba's. This soup can't be eaten alone but with chicken stew or beef stew or fish stew. The ewedu mixture can also include gbegiri (Beans Soup), that is, Ewedu, gbegiri and stew; this mixture is usually used to eat the Amala swallow. Some people use there Ewedu soup to eat white rice, but people mostly find this being an odd combination.

                                       How to Make The Ewedu Soup
Ingredients

Ewedu leaves
1/2 (half) table spoon of potash
1 (one) stock cube (optional)
Egusi(Melon) optional
Locust Beans (iru)
Crayfish
Salt to taste

Directions


Pick the leaves, removing the stem of the ewedu.. wash the leaves properly to remove sand

There are different methods of preparing this

1) you can blend the ewedu in a blender until smooth
2)slice the leaves into tiny bits and start with the cooking
3) put water on fire, add the ewedu leaves, the potash and allow to boil then add egusi (if using) and allow your egusi to cook for about 5min , when soft use the local broom(ijabe) to mash/pound it continously till the desired smoothness is achieved ,add salt to taste, stock cube

Serve with stew, gbegiri and amala

Plain Ewedu

Ewedu with Egusi

 

 

Serve Ewedu, with Gbegiri, stew and swallows (Amala or Eba or Semovita or wheat or pounded yam)

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Peanut Soup

The peanut soup is a soup that should be part of your menu at home and even parties. The soup can either be taken alone or with fufu or rice.



                                                 How to Cook the African Peanut Soup
Ingredients

Peanut Butter

Any Meat of your choice (Beef, fish or chicken)

Fresh Tomatoes (Mashed)

Tomato Paste

Vegetable Oil

Garlic

Chilli Pepper

Black pepper

Onions( Chopped)

Stock Cubes,

Salt to taste

Directions

• Heat vegetable oil in a pot over medium high heat, add onions, garlic, stir fry for few minutes, add the mashed tomatoes, tomato paste, stock cube, black pepper. Stir fry the mixture for 10 minutes.

• Add the meat/chicken stock, peanut butter, stir until peanut butter is melted and mixture is well blended and cook for about 15 minutes

• Add the salt and pepper to taste and leave to simmer

*peanut soup can be made with chicken, beef, fish or vegetables, so add any of your choice

Serve with Fufu or with rice

                                        The Health Benefits of The Peanut Soup

1.        Helps Promote Fertility (Folate)

 

• It contain a good amount of folate and studies have shown that women who had a daily intake of 400 micrograms of folic acid before and during early pregnancy reduced their risk of having a baby born with a serious neural tube defect by up to 70%.
  
  2. Blood Sugar Regulation
  It can supply the body with of the DV of manganese, a mineral which plays a role in fat and carbohydrate metabolism, calcium absorption, and blood sugar regulation.
  
  3. Helps Prevent Gallstones
  It lowers the risk of developing gallstones by 25%.
  
  4. Helps Fight Depression (Tryptophan)
  Peanuts are good sources of tryptophan, an essential amino acid which is important for the production of serotonin, one of the key brain chemicals involved in mood regulation. When depression occurs, a decreased amount of serotonin may be released from the nerve cells in the brain. Tryptophan may raise serotonin’s antidepressant effects when there is an increased amount of serotonin in the blood.
  
  5. Boosts Memory Power (Vitamin B3)
  It aids or boost the memory.
  
  6. Helps Lower Cholesterol Levels
  It helps lower and control cholesterol levels. Added to that is their copper contents which aids in reducing bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol levels.
  
  7. Lowers Risk of Heart Disease
  Numerous studies have shown that regular nuts consumption is linked to reduced risk of heart disease.
  
  8.       Cancer Protection
   They protect against cancer by inhibiting tumor growth.
  
  10. Lowers Risk of Weight Gain
  Surprise! Eating nuts regularly is associated with a lowered risk of weight gain. Research has shown that people who eat nuts at least twice weekly are much less likely to gain weight than those who almost never eat them.

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Okra Soup

The Okra soup is a popular soup common amongst the southern/eastern people of Nigeria, the great aspects about this soup is that it is so tasty, super healthy (all greens) and super cheap to make.
 
One of the feature of the soup is that it draws or that it is slimy, which is the key feature Nigerians love about their soup. The Okra soup is made differently by people in different tribes, although one might end up with a similar or close to similar end result. The Okra soup can be used to eat swallows like Eba, wheat, semovita and fufu. The Okra soup is easy to make and here is how:

Ingredients

Okra
Red Palm Oil
Beef /shaki /Ponmo
Dry Fish
Stock Fish
Crayfish
Salt and pepper to taste
Vegetable – Pumpkin leave
Stock Cubes

Directions

• Chop the okra into tiny pieces and set aside
• Wash the vegetables and cut into tiny pieces
• If using Shaki /Ponmo wash and boil till it's done, season the assorted meat with stock cube, salt to taste, onions and add to it and cook till done
• Add the grated okro and palm oil and cook for about 5minutes
• Now add the vegetable and stir well, add crayfish, salt and pepper to taste
• Leave to simmer for 3- 5 minutes
• Serve with Eba (Garri), Pounded Yam, Fufu, Tuwo Shinkafa

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Ayan-ekpang with Etighi aka Okro soup

In Nigeria, we just love our slimy soups, from Ewedu to okra and many more, the Ayan-ekpang with Etighi is a special soup among the Efiks and it has been usually viewed as one of the most difficult soups to make.

 At NFC, when it comes to food, our thought is, how hard can it be. So our amazing subscriber  Ushike Egodo has come up with a detailed description of the Ayan-ekpang soup to help us know the best and easy way to cook the soup.                                                        

 

Ingredients

Water yam
Okro
Shrimps
Fresh Fish
Onions
Crayfish
Pepper
Palm Oil
Uziza Leaf

Directions


Ayan-ekpang 

Take water yam, peel it wash and grate using the local grater. Tie with moi moi leaf and boil until cooked. 

Etighi / Okro soup 

I used fresh sea foods, because I prefer them,  

Wash your shrimps and fresh fish, add onions, salt to taste and any seasoning of your choice and cook for 20 (twenty) minute, add water , add ingredients, like crayfish and pepper, a drop of palm oil, uziza leaf/ hot leaves, cover to cook for 15mins then add the okro/Etighi stir and cook for 5 (five) minutes. 

 And your food is ready to eat.  

Food Recipe Submitted By Ushike Egodo




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Egusi Soup Made with Cowleg

 Egusi seeds are the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants.  Egusi is a special soup accepted by everyone in Nigeria, it is made by mostly every Nigerian family and it's a soup that we eat at least ones a week.

Egusi is a soup eaten with various Nigerian swallows( you could eat it with either Eba, wheat, semovita, pounded yam, semolina, or fufu), some people also eat egusi with white rice, although this complement is not usually used by most. The Egusi soup is cooked differently by the people of Nigeria, here is how our lovely subscriber Mimi made hers:

Ingredients
Cow tail

Stock fish
Dry fish
Egusi
Dry pepper
Fresh pepper
seasoning
palm oil
vegetable leaves
Bitter leaf.

Directions

Parboil Cow tail adding onions, salt, stock cube, any meat seasoning of your choice. 

Add warm water to melon, stir and cover
.

Fry oil, add onions, fresh and dry pepper, add a pinch of salt to taste, stock cube, stir and cover f‎or few minutes

Add Cow tail, dry fish, stock fish, stir and cover for 3 minutes.

Add soaked melon until  properly cooked‎, do not stir.

Add bitter leaf(properly washed to extract bitterness). 

When egusi is done, stir properly and add vegetables. 

Remove immediately, your egusi is ready to be served.

Food Submitted By Mimi




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