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Pounded yam with Melon soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pounded yam with Melon soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Nigerian most popular local soup made with melon seeds, locust beans, palm oil, pepper, dry prawn, smoked fish and a dash of spinach etc. Pounded Yam is a staple in many West African homes, but it is not usually eaten by itself, it is often paired with many delicious African soups, and stews. 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.
To get started with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Get 1 Yam tuber
- Get 1 bunch spinach
- Take 1 cup grounded melon(also known as egusi)
- Get Spices and seasoning
- Make ready Palm oil 4table spoons
- Prepare Stock fish
- Make ready Beef or meat of your choice
- Take 2 Chopped red chilli
- Prepare 2 Chopped onion
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. Egusi soup and pounded yam is such a mouthwatering and appetising dish to behold. Pounded Yam is the most stretchy of all the Nigerian fufu recipes that is if it is well prepared.
Instructions 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
Egusi soup and pounded yam is such a mouthwatering and appetising dish to behold. 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. 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.
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