Promote Your Most Delicious Traditional Food | Egusi Soup, My Favourite Traditional Food by @bright-obias

Hello steemians of this wonderful community, welcome to my first steem food post on this community. In regard to the contest that is been held here, I will be sharing with you my favorite traditional food, so read on to what I've got here.

My Favourite Traditional Food - Egusi Soup

Egusi soup is very common in Nigeria and it is been cooked with grounded melon seed which helps it to be thick and it usually contains some leaves like vegetable, bitter leaf, or even okazi leaf. But for this content, i will be using the okazi leaf to prepare the soup, so you can check the ingredients in the general shot below.

^{General Snapshot Of The Ingredient For My Favourite Traditional Food - Egusi Soup}

In the above picture, you will see all the ingredients that I will be using to prepare this meal, so on the list below, you'll take a look at their names.

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So, since you have seen the list of the ingredients, let's now move to the preparation! continue reading till down!

The Arrangement/Preparation

There are so many ways that you can use to start preparing this delicious egusi soup, but for an easy and convenient way, I will start by arranging all the ingredients.

Firstly, I started by pounding the pepper, by doing this I brought it out and then washed it, so there will not be any dirt on it. after then I started pounding as you can see below.

While Pounding The Pepper

pounding the pepper, it took me just 8mins, after pounding it, the next thing I did was to add the crayfish, but before I added the crayfish, I had to wash it so all the dirt on it will go out. here's when I was washing the crayfish.

While Washing The Crayfish

After washing the crayfish, I then added it to the pepper and then pounded it together with the crayfish. Pounding the pepper + crayfish. See how I did it below.

While Pounding The Crayfish Together With Pepper

After pounding the crayfish, I then started the pounding of the okazi leaf. The essence of arranging all the foodstuff is so I can cook them without any inconvenience. You know, that leaf called okazi leaf is too hard, so I had to pound it till it gets soft. See how I pounded it below.

While Pounding The Okazi Leaf

After all the arrangements, I then began cooking properly. So continue reading to see how I finally made the soup.

Food Preparation Proper

After arranging all the above foodstuffs. Now let's begin the cooking of the food properly.

• Step 1

To begin, I have to pour water inside the pot, this water was used to steam the beef meat together with the dry fish and stockfish. After pouring the water, I washed the beef meat and Boiled it in the fire for about 20mins. See how it was on the fire.

Still on the fire, after it boiled for about 20mins, I added the dry fish and stockfish together with the meat and closed it to boil for sometime after which I opened it, see how it looked like when I opened it.

Now it has boiled and the next thing to do under this step is to add the ground pepper and crayfish. After adding the pepper & crayfish, I mixed(turned). See how I did it below.

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• Step 2

In step 2 I added water to the soup and then waited for it to heat for some time, After then I added the red oil, then waited for it to heat a little before adding ofor. I allowed it to boil for about 6mins. before I added the Unshelled Periwinkle. See how I did it below.

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• Step 3

after adding the Unshelled Periwinkle, I waited for it to heat for some time. When it was due for the Egusi, I brought it out and poured it on a plate like this:

And then added it to the boiling soup. After then, I allowed it to heat again for some time. Check how I added the Egusi below.

After adding the Egusi, I allowed it to heat for about 10mins before I then added the okazi leaf that was pounding on the arrangement stage. See How I added and turned it in below.

The Okazi Leaf, After Pounding

While I Was Mixing The Okazi Leaf With The Soup

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After adding the Okazi, I then allowed it to heat for sometime before I brought it down from the fire. And that was how I prepared my Favourite Traditional Food called Egusi Soup. Below is the delicious Egusi Soup ready to Eat!

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Now, let's take a look at why I have chosen Egusi soup as my favorite tradition. Egusi soup can be prepared using any one of these leaves, Okazi leaf, Bitter Leaf, Vegetable Leafs, and Oha leaf. These leaves have a very vital part to play in the soup. So for this very cook, I will give some benefits below:

• It Helps in Digestion - Its substance of dietary fiber is likewise useful for the body because of its capacity to help absorption subsequently forestalling any type of stomach-related confusion like clogging and sporadic defecation.

• It Strengthens The Borns - Egusi contains minerals that are fundamental in the arrangement and advancement of bones like potassium, calcium, magnesium, and surprisingly phosphorous. Its utilization can help lighten bone infections and disease.

Thanks for reading through, I trust Nigerians here can prepare this soup. Thanks once again for the valid time spent on my post. See you at my next cook.

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Kind Regards

@bright-obias