Easiest Way to Make Great Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds Cooking Basics for Beginners

Egusi Soup - Efo Elegusi is an extremely popular Nigerian vegetable soup. The most popular vegetable options for Efo Elegusi are Ugu (Pumpkin leaves), Spinach and Bitterleaf. I prefer a mix of Ugu and Efinrin leaves. I choose to add Efinrin because it's an aromatic herb and it's distinctively.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have efo elegusi-vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds:

1. Prepare 1 cup ground pumpkin seeds
2. Get 1/2 cup Red oil /Palm Oil
3. Take 1 full onion sliced
4. Take 1/2 cup grounded cayenne pepper/ freshly ground red pepper
5. Make ready 3 spoons locust beans
6. Make ready 1 cup periwinkles (out of shell)
7. Get 1 large smoked fish
8. Take 3 spoons ground crayfish
9. Prepare 1 plate of assorted meat (offals /beef/Pomo)
10. Make ready 1 plate of freshly sliced Pumpkin leaves/spinach
11. Prepare 1 table spoon salt
12. Get 1 bullion of Knorr stock cube
13. Take 2 spoons vegetables oil(optional

As for the Efo Igbo, my friend Funmi told me where to buy it. It is supposed to be this rare vegetable, imagine her delight in finding Ground Crayfish. This is cooked Exactly as you would Egusi soup. I used the lumpy Egusi style method, but as pumpkin seeds contain.

Steps to make Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds:

1. PREPARATION:; Firat you prepare all your ingredients by washing your periwinkles and cleaning the smoked fish, wash your assorted meat and set it on the fire to boil till it’s tender, while you wait slice your onions and also wash your locust beans ( they sometimes have some shell particles in them so Watch out. Also wash the pumpkin leaves /spinach and drain.Set all these aside.
2. In a clean pot, add some red oil/palm oil to the pot and let it heat up for 2 minutes and it looks almost crystal clear. Add your sliced onions and stir for a minute to 2 minutes. Now add your prewinkles and let the stir fry for a minute, Now add your ground pepper/fresh pepper to the oils and add your boiled meat to the pot, this should simmer for about 3 minutes now add your smoked fish and the grounded crayfish.
3. Now you add your vegetables as well as the salt and bullion stock cube, if you have some stock from the boiled meat you can add a spoon or two (large serving spoon).in a small boil add two spoons of groundnut oil to the groused pumpkin seeds and mix throughly,now form it into small balls and add it to the vegetables and cover for two minutes and then stir. Remember to stir carefully as not to break the fish into pieces. You can serve your Soup with Eba/ Semo/Fufu/pounded yam/Amala/Rice. Enjoy

This is cooked Exactly as you would Egusi soup. I used the lumpy Egusi style method, but as pumpkin seeds contain. Egusi Soup is a Nigerian Soup which is made with melon seeds and enriched with spices and vegetables. It can be prepared with leafy vegetables, such as ugwu(fluted pumpkin leaves), bitter leaf, spinach and the likes. Ingredients for the Egusi Soup (a.k.a Ofe Egusi / Obe Efo Elegusi).

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