Food is a vital part of life we need to survive and also need to nourish our body. Today I will be participating in this contest for the first time in this wonderful community steem kids & parents and the contest is titled food challenge contest week 108 for kids and parents. Before i start i wish you all a happy Sunday and a happy weekend as you stay tuned to my blog.


As you all know I am a Nigerian and we Nigerians have so many dishes which we eat and cook also. This contest is aimed at teaching children and adult how to cook and share delicious meal and that is what I intend to do in this post. Yesterday was Saturday, for many people it could be their resting days while for some it is their most busiest day, but for me its one of my cooking days. Why I said its one of my Cooking days is because I have other cooking days also. As one of my cooking days I also prepared a lot of dishes yesterday but the dish that I want you guys to learn from me and I also enjoyed cooking is a famous African delicacy mostly eaten with garri or pounded yam and the name of the dish is called egusi soup.


Egusi soup is one of my favourite soup I enjoy when eating it, this soup can be prepared in different ways depending on the culture. Igbo's have their own way of preparing it while ikwere have another method of preparing it and so on. This soup is very delicious and satisfactory as it is always eaten with garri which makes the dish to be called garri and egusi soup. Egusi soup is generally accepted To all tribe and culture as all tribe and culture enjoy eating this food. Now I will be going in detail how I prepared my egusi soup, stay tuned as I continue.

PREPARATION OF EGUSI SOUP

To prepare egusi soup it requires a long process depending on the method you want to use. For one to be able to cook this soup they are certain essential ingredients one must get before starting the preparation and they are:

1 2 or 3 cups of egusi
2 pepper to taste
3 seasoning cubes to taste
4 maggi
5 salt for taste
6 crayfish if needed.
7 meat or chicken.
8 palm oil
9 water leave and bitter leave
10 onion

The ingredients listed above will make a pot of egusi. This pot will serve a family of six person for a day.

PREPARATION

Before starting the preparation you must have grinded your melon or egusi with a dry grinder or a hand grinding machine to make it smooth then you can now start the preparation

Step 1

Wash the chicken you bought add onion, ginger and garlic, and salt into the chicken and steam and keep aside.

Step 2

After that put your pot on the fire and add your palm oil, onion and your grinded melon and stir.

Your grinded egusi

Onion

Step 3

Fry the egusi for some minutes, after frying for some minutes carry the chicken stock water and pour into the egusi pot on the fire and stir very well and allow to boil

Step 4

After that you add your grinded pepper, crayfish and maggi stir and allow to boil.

Your pepper

Your maggi

Step 5

After that you add your water leave and bitter leave that has been cut, stir and allow to boil

Your water leaf

Your bitter leaf

Step 6

At last add your periwinkle if you want stir and allow to boil for some minutes.

Your egusi soup is now ready to be served with garri or pounded yam to eat with. This is a popular Nigerian dish many people love to eat and in my area it is one of the top food we love. I would like to use this opportunity to invite @divinelife, @goodybest, and @mesola.

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