Let's do it... Do it yourself 👉 craft, Creativity, Drawing, Origami, DIY, Recycling and More Week 52

Hello my beloved steemians across the globe, it's your girl @missyleo. I hope you're all doing well by the grace of God, just keep the hope alive because everything is gonna be alright. I'm very excited to take part in this "Do it yourself" contest , so I say a big thank you, to the organizer @mesola, Weldone ma'am for your consistency.

Today in my article, I'll showing you how I prepared melon soup from the scratch to the end, kindly be patient with me and read to the end because you are sure going to learn one or more things from it, thank you.

Before I begin my writing I will like to list out the list of items/ingredients that I used in preparing my melon soup

• Meat (shaki)

• Cowskin (kpomo)

• Dried fish

• Melon

• Pumpkin leaf

• Periwinkle (shell)

• Crayfish

• Fresh Pepper

• Curry leaf

• Seasoning cube

• Salt for taste

• Red oil

• Onions

The first thing I did was to blend the melon with blender in the house, since I was the one that hand-peeled it.

Blending the melon

After I was done blending the melon, I proceeded into preparing every other ingredients. I pound the crayfish and fresh pepper, I washed the periwinkle and the meat, kpomo and fish very clean and I sliced the pumpkin and curry leaves and set them aside before I can start the cooking proper.

All ingredients well prepared

I put ally washed protein into the cooking pot added seasoning with salt and other cooking agent. I added enough water to cover the shaki (meat) and cook until the meat are soft and tender.

When the meat was soft and done, I then proceeded into frying the melon in a separate pot. I heated red oil on the cooker when it was hot I added chopped onions and fried it till it's brown then I added the blended melon and fried continuously until it becomes fragrant and starts to clump together.

The process of frying the melon

I made sure it was well fried, then in the washer periwinkle and the fried melon into the pot of meat on fire, stir and covered it and allow to cook for about 5 to 10minutes.

Putting the washed periwinkle and fried melon into the pot

After about 5 to 7 minutes I added the pounded crayfish and the sliced pumpkin leaves into the pot, stir it very well and allowed it to simmer for about 5minutes

Putting crayfish and the pumpkin leaves

The last ingredient that I put in the pot was curry leaf, after putting the leaves I stirred it very well, covered the pot and allowed it to simmer for just about 3minutes before I turned off the cooker and my food was ready.

Delicious melon soup

Melon soup popular and delicious food that is commonly enjoyed by Nigerians and Ghanaian. It is made using melon seeds (egusi) as the base ingredient. I've made melon soup one of my best soup and one thing I like about melon soup is that it can be prepare with different types of leaves, like;

• Vegetable leaf (pumpkin)

• Curry leaf

• Ozuza leaf

• Waterleaf

• Bitter leaf

Come let's eat together

🌺 Thank you for reading my article so patiently and I invite @chant, @geegirl and @caringmanasseh🌺