Egusi soup
A thick soup of ground melon seeds, leafy greens and palm oil, eaten with pounded yam or eba.
What makes it egusi soup
- Ground egusi seeds, cooked until they clump.
- Palm oil.
- Leafy greens — bitterleaf, spinach or ugu.
Where it comes from
Egusi — the protein-rich seeds of a wild melon — are ground and cooked into the soup, where they curdle into soft clumps. It's made across Nigeria, and every household argues for its own way.
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