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October 19, 2014 Nigerian Egusi soup

Ugwu Soup (Pumpkin Leaves)

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What better recipe to share this Halloween season than ugwu soup recipe. This is one of the ways I cook my egusi soup, I add ugwu to my egusi. This recipe is easy, pretty straight forward but delicious.

egusi ugwu soup

What better way to enjoy the pumpkin season other than cooking the pumpkin leaves or ugwu as it is popularly called in Nigeria. I love ugwu so much but what I love more is the way my mum cooks hers. I’ll never forget the way Naija women chop the vegetable, no trained chef can beat them to it. Those women are perfect.

This Halloween season called for my ugwu soup. My ugwu soup is complimented with egusi (melon). This is one of the ways I cook with ugwu leaves. This recipe is easy and pretty straight forward. No fuss but little mess made: trust me it is all worth it in the end. If you are on a diet, reduce the amount of oil to be used in this recipe and if you don’t mind oil, then you can use as desired but I recommend it in moderation. If you manage to cook this soup, balance it with garri, amala, fufu, pounded yam, rice, bread or any other swallow. 

egusi ugwu soup

Ingredients

½ cup palm oil

100g Smoked catfish

2 Dried hake (panla gbigbe)

250g Fresh or frozen ugwu

2 cups of ground egusi (melon)

500g Assorted meat of choice

Dried bonga fish

2 small Kpomo (snort/cow skin)

2 medium bell peppers (tatashe)

1-2 scotch bonnet (use according to level of tolerance)

1 medium size tomato

2-3 medium size onions

4 seasoning of choice (I used Nigerian Knorr cubes)

Salt to taste

Fish/meat stock

ingredient for egusi soup.

 

How to make ugwu soup

Wash and boil meat and stock fish till tender and soft. (Season with salt, onion, seasoning cube, ginger and garlic) and set aside.

Blend pepper with tomato and onion

Slice half bulb onion and set aside

Place a pan on medium  heat, pour palm oil leave for about 3 minutes then add the sliced onions and cook for another 2-3 minutes 

Add the blended pepper, stock/ smoked fish and any other tough meat and cook for another 10 minutes

Add stock to the boiling sauce and continue to boil on a low heat.

Mix warm water or stock with melon to form a paste

process shot of how to cook egusi soup.

Scoop melon mixture in bits into the boiling pepper and cook further for another 10 minutes (stir in between the time to avoid the melon balls sticking or burning)

Add the remaining fish and meat into the soup and bring to boil for another 7 minutes. 

Stir the soup, add seasoning and taste to check if it needs salt. I didn’t add salt to this recipe as there was no need for it. It tasted perfect without the salt. if your stock is well seasoned then you are likely to skip salt or seasoning in cooking this soup. Also, check for thickness, add more water or stock to the soup as desired.

For the final bit, add the frozen or fresh pumpkin leave. You don’t want to cook this for a long time so as not to lose all the nutrients in the vegetable I recommend you cook for about 5 minutes

Turn off the heat and serve your ugwu soup with a swallow of choice and if you decide to go bonkers like me, eat with agege bread. My other half found this weird though but I like to do weird. lol.

If you made this recipe, don’t forget to leave me feedback. Tag me @myactivekitchen on Instagram and save away to your Pinterest

 

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Categories: Nigerian Egusi soup Tags: assorted meat, efo elegusi, efo elegusi recipe, egusi, egusi recipes, egusi soup, how to cook efo elegusi, melon, nigerian blog for easy recipes, nigerian soup recipes, smoked fish

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  1. oyindamola says

    May 25, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    what is the melon ?

     
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  2. Id Noble says

    March 18, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Hey!! i have tried this method and i must say it is not bad at all. I followed the steps reasonably to my taste and loving it.Well done mama cook.I have tried two of your nija recipe. ….I thank God I did.

     
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    • Ajoke says

      March 18, 2015 at 4:03 pm

      Thanks ID for trying this and some of my other recipes out. I’m glad I could be of help. please do check back for more amazing recipes from moi. thanks babe. x

       
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  3. silvia baby says

    March 9, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    Um!!! Lovely this soup is mouth watery, so going to try ur method next time xxx.

     
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    • Ajoke says

      March 10, 2015 at 12:17 pm

      Thanks dear please kindly leave feedback when you do.

       
      Reply

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