How To Cook Nigerian White Soup With Egusi Lumps

Here is my recipe for How to cook Nigerian white soup with egusi lumps. This soup originated from the South South Geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It’s very easy to cook, serve and enjoy with fufu especially pounded yam.Because of its spicy nature, new moms are encouraged to take lots of this soup the first few weeks after delivery. Different countries have their own versions of white soups completely different from Nigerian white soup.

If well cooked with uziza hot leaves, this soup can be mega delicious and rich in


vitamins and minerals. I cooked with egusi lumps for a change. There is a post on Nigerian white soup on the blog already. Growing up,  We were served egusi lumps in white soupporridges, stews and even ogbono soup. I’ll find time to cook and share the ones that are not yet here on the blog.

INGREDIENTS:

  • Beef
  • Salt to taste
  • stockfish
  • Dried catfish
  • pepper
  • ground egusi
  • onion for steaming the beef
  • 3 slices of boiled yam or more. To pound and thicken the soup with.
  • Palm oil is optional as this is white soup. Doesn’t require oil.
  • Seasoning cubes
  • Uziza leaves to sprinkle in the soup
  • Water

Below are the cooking steps for Nigerian white soup with egusi lumps

COOKING STEPS

 

  • Wash and Add stock fish with onion and salt to a cooking pot to start cooking.   

 

  •  Ground egusi should be pounded again  with some warm water until it looks like dough and becomes oily, so it can moulded into lumps.

 

 

  • Cut and drop pounded egusi dough into boiling stock to cook with the stock. 

 

 It’s called white soup but I like mine with a little drop of palm oil

 

  •  Drop well pounded, soft yam in the stock to thicken the soup.

 

  • Add washed dry catfish when soup is about to get done. If you let in the dried fish too early in the cooking, it will fall apart and there won’t be pieces to chew with your swallow later.

 

When soup is done, Add just a handful of shred uziza hot leaf

 

 

white soup recipe by wives connection
How To Cook Nigerian White Soup With Egusi Lumps
Nigerian white soup with pounded yam

 

 

SEE ALSO:
How to cook egusi soup with washed bitter leaf.

 OGBONO SOUP WITHOUT PALM OIL

How to cook egusi soup with ugu vegetable

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