Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, efo elegusi-vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

This Efo Elegusi recipe is so easy. The literal translation of Efo Elegusi means efo that is made with egusi. Or in complete english, vegetable soup made with melon seeds.

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

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

1. Make ready 1 cup ground pumpkin seeds
2. Make ready 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. Prepare 1 cup periwinkles (out of shell)
7. Make ready 1 large smoked fish
8. Take 3 spoons ground crayfish
9. Take 1 plate of assorted meat (offals /beef/Pomo)
10. Get 1 plate of freshly sliced Pumpkin leaves/spinach
11. Take 1 table spoon salt
12. Prepare 1 bullion of Knorr stock cube
13. Make ready 2 spoons vegetables oil(optional

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. Don't worry; this efo elegusi is all you need to get your loved ones licking their fingers and looking.

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

Learn how to make a pot of Efo Elegusi with this recipe. 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). As for the Efo Igbo, my friend Funmi told me where to buy it.

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