How To Cook Egusi Balls In Vegetable ogbono Soup

Egusi lumps in ogbono soup
How to cook vegetable ogbono soup with egusi lumps

How to cook egusi balls in vegetable ogbono soup

There is how to make eba garri steps below with pictures. Check it too.

With egusi balls in your soup, there is no way you’ll eat too much carbs. The soup fills
you up fast. It is very easy to cook and yummy too. This soup can be served with pouded yam, semo, amala, starch and other forms of swallow( foo foo). 

Ingredients for egusi balls ogbono soup:
  1. 2 cups ground Egusi  
  2. 1 cup ground Ogbono 
  3. 11/2kg Beef
  4. 1 small bunch ugu vegetable (Fluted pumpkin)  
  5. 1 teaspoon ground fresh pepper or more to your taste
  6. salt to taste
  7. 1 small onion to steam meat
  8. 3 medium sized smoked cat fish
  9. 2 medium sized grilled titus (Mackerel) fish
  10. 1 cup ground crayfish
  11. 2 beef seasoning cubes 
  12. 3 cups water to start with, adjust as you cook if more water is needed.
How to make egusi balls for soup
To make egusi balls, mix ground egusi with salt and a little warm water, mix until egusi oil is seen.  With your finger, mould into tiny lumps and set aside.
Cooking direction for how to make egusi balls in vegetable ogbono soup
  • Boil beef with salt, onion, pepper and seasoning cube. 

 

  • Let beef boil and begin to dry up before adding water to make stock.
  • Add palm oil at the same time with egusi balls.
  • Let egusi balls boil for 25 minutes or more to enable them cook well in the meat stock 
  •  Add ground crayfish, ogbono and smoked cat fish
  • Add washed grilled titus
  • Let soup boil and cook
  • Finally add ugu vegetables to cooked soup

Egusi balls in green vegetable ogbono soup
How to cook egusi balls in green vegetable ogbono soup
egusi balls in green vegetable ogbono soup is ready and fresh.

 

 How To Make Fluffy  Eba Garri:

 

Pouring garri into hot water to make eba
pour garri into a bowl of boiled  water
Stirring eba after adding garri to hot water
allow eba to stand for atleast two minutes and soak up the hot water before stirring

Eba garri in a biwl
How to make eba garri
stir eba until the texture is even

Scooping out eba
Eba garri being scooped from the bowl
cut and serve hot. The best texture comes when it is left till the  next day.

This soup can be enjoyed with a spoon and without swallow. I also make moi moi with ground egusi.

 

Enjoy

 

 

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42 thoughts on “How To Cook Egusi Balls In Vegetable ogbono Soup”

  1. Looking yummylicious lol. I've never tired egusi lumps in draw soup. Sis Eya how can I avoid d lumps falling apart in the soup when cooking?

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  2. I thought I was the only one that noticed just how 'loaded' it is o! Eya,enough enjoyment abeg. This looks really nice,u even made the eba look so yummy. Kudos! Funke

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  3. Aunty Eya, keep up the good work. I'm so glad my sister introduced me to this blog. Sometimes, when i don't know what to prepare for my hubby, i visit ur blog and get all the inspiration and ideas i need. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this blog as well. Hopefully, i'll share some of my recipies with u guys….:-)

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  4. Chai chai chai.. Can't wait 4 weekend 2 do my own but do I ve 2 do it with ogbono? Can't there be lumpy melon in vegetable?

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  5. Eya, u av posted sometin similar before but in dt one, u told us to remove d egusi balls before we add d ogbono. Wen I tried mine, I did exactly dt n it came out nice. This method, u didn't remove d balls and it came out nice as well. Y is dt? Tnx!

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  6. Yes Shayor, you are right. The other lumpy egusi soup, I just cut and drop, but here I moulded them into round balls. They are harder when moulded into balls.
    Again, I wanted to experiment with moulding into balls. I never used to mould, just cut and drop.

    I cooked once without moulding, left them in the ogbono and the lumps disintergrated. Maybe there was something I didn't do correctly then sha.

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  7. Hahaha Dobby, pls you are very free but let it not be for anything hardcover so that we don't do like Samsung and Iphone when I eventually write my Cookbook. Ok?

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  8. Aunty eya! Am an umuahia woman and egusi balls is our tin. We use it to cook achara soup. Wen poundin d egusi, add a little fresh pepper and seasonin benny prefrably, taste it. Den mould. After mouldin, put it in boiling water for some minutes, den u turn off d heat and seive and kip aside for ur soup.

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  9. This looks very good. I miss ogbono. My oga no like am so I don't cook it even though he says it's ok if I do. What's the point of chopping sweet food alone? But maybe I can tempt him with this recipe cos of the egusi. Nice one!

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  10. I forgot to ask: Pls did you grill your titus yourself or you bought it already grilled? If you bought it like that, pls where in abuja did you get it from? Thanks.

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  11. Aunty Eya I tried to cook this recipe buh it didn't work out cus d lumps disintegrated, ended up cookin just egusi soup. What could hav bin my mistake? cus I followed evry step*confused*

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  12. Hi A M Y, so sorry about your soup. Did you pound with a lil water until the egusi oil came out?

    Did you wait for the lumps to cook before adding ogbono? Did you add too much water before mixing? Since you said you followed my recipe I am now a bit confused cos some readers sent me thank you mails after cooking this soup.

    When you try again, bring out all the egusi lumps before adding ogbono. Return the cooked lumps when ogbono has boiled very well.

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  13. Tnx for d reply, wen I try it nxt tym wil add vry little water to d egusi and pound cus I didn't pound it, only mixed it in d mortar til I saw d egusi oil. Wil d egusi balls b hard wen mouldin?

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