Recipe of the day: Egusi and vegetable soup

Total time: 2hrs                     Yield: 5-8 servings             Level: Easy

          prep: 20mins

         cook: 1hr40mins   

I'm still looking for the right word to describe how much I love this soup. You can eat it with rice, starchy solids and so on.


    Ingredients

• 1 cup egusi powder
• 6 stock cubes
• Salt to taste
• 1 medium onion
• 5 slices red pepper
• 5 cups blended pepper
• 1 pack chopped spinach
• 5kg oxtail
• 5kg chicken
• 5kg smoked turkey
• 5kg beef tripe
• 4 tablespoons crayfish powder
• 3 teaspoons ground locust beans
• 2 tablespoons onion powder
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 1 tablespoon thyme powder
• 2 tablespoons garlic powder
• 2 tablespoons All purpose seasoning

   Tools/Equipment

• Medium pot
• Oven
• Cooking spoon

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Directions

• Slice the onion and red pepper.
• Wash, boil and season the chicken, beef tripe and oxtail.
• Mix the egusi powder and blended onion/egg to make a paste.
• Fry the egusi paste, red pepper and onion in bleached palm oil. 
• In a medium pot, fry the blended pepper, add the chicken stock, stock cube, salt. After 5 minutes add the fried egusi paste (with red pepper and onion) and cook on medium heat.
• Add the assorted meat and let it absorb the soup.
• After a while, stir and add the chopped spinach. Cook thoroughly. 
• Serve with rice, pounded yam, semovita or eba.

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Raheenah

                         

And give to the orphans their properties and do not substitute the defective [of your own] for the good [of theirs]. And do not consume their properties into your own. Indeed, that is ever a great sin. {An-Nisa 4:2}