Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pounded yam with melon soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Nigerian most popular local soup made with melon seeds, locust beans, palm oil, pepper, dry prawn, smoked fish and a dash of spinach etc. Melon soup also known as egusi soup is a popular soup recipe in the Western part of Africa. This soup is best served with pounded yam, fufu or eba.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pounded yam with melon soup using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pounded yam with Melon soup:
- Prepare 1 Yam tuber
- Make ready 1 bunch spinach
- Take 1 cup grounded melon(also known as egusi)
- Get Spices and seasoning
- Make ready Palm oil 4table spoons
- Take Stock fish
- Get Beef or meat of your choice
- Make ready 2 Chopped red chilli
- Get 2 Chopped onion
Then, we scoop some stew or soup over it and we eat it. Often time it's swallowed, but sometimes it requires a bit of chewing depending on the type. Pounded Yam is the most stretchy of all the Nigerian fufu recipes that is if it is well prepared. It has the softness of semolina fufu hence it is not as hard as cassava fufu.
Steps to make Pounded yam with Melon soup:
- Peel yam,wash,cook till soft and tender,pound it using mortar and pestle till smooth and soft,mould and keep in a warmer,keep a side 1
- In a pot on flame, add 2cups of water,wash beef,stock and add,add seasoning and chopped onion,let it boil for 30mins till meat is soft and tender,add a cup of water,add spices and seasoning,add (red chilli)pepper,add palm oil,add grounded melon,cover let it boil and thickens,wash spinach and cut thinly, wash it thorougly again after cut,then add to the cooked melon,off flame and cover pot let the spinach simmer unflamely
- Soup is ready,serve with pounded yam
To prepare pounded yam from scratch, you simply cook white yam and pound the yam pieces with a mortar and pestle when done. Pounded Yam and Ogbono Soup - A tasty and hearty Nigerian soup made from Ogbono seeds (bush mango seeds) added with pre-cooked meat. And paired with smooth, tasty and filling Pounded Yam for an extraordinary African meal experience! Pounded yam is made with tuber of raw yams which is boiled, mashed and rolled to form a ball. Egusi soup soup is made with ground melon seed thickened with gourd or spinach.
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