Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, melon stew. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Melon stew is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Melon stew is something which I have loved my entire life.
Melon Stew is a little bit different from the regular melon with vegetable soup and also how to prepare melon stew it's not the same with egusi ijebu because is melon Stew we are going to be using frying process without adding water. Egusi is one of the popular west Africa soup, both young and old enjoyed this soup expecially when taken with swallow e.g Amala, Pounded yam, semo, Eba e.t.c We're Married! Thank you for coming to our marriage party.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have melon stew using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Melon stew:
- Take 240 g ground melon (wild melon seeds or pumpkin seeds)
- Make ready 400 ml meat stock
- Prepare 680 g (about 5 medium tomatoes)
- Get 3 fresh chili pepper
- Prepare 4 tbs ground crayfish
- Make ready 10 g chicken bouillon
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare Handful dried bitter leaves (or spinach finely chopped)
- Get 4 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 500 ml water
- Prepare Millet flour or cornmeal (for serving)
Pour blended mixture into the stew. DO NOT STIR, cover and reduce heat to low. Mix ground melon with water, some Salt, pour into a pot of hot oil and fry till lumps are formed. Empty the fried lumpy melon into the pot of soup and continue cooking.
Steps to make Melon stew:
- Pause the tomatoes and pepper in a blender until purée. Transfer to a pot on a stove top, cover and allow to cook until the water content is dried off.
- Heat up a pot, add oil,the cooked tomatoes and pepper mixture. Fry for about 5 minutes, add melon and continue frying for another 5 minutes, then add the crayfish and fry for 2 minutes.
- Add meat stock, water, chicken bouillon, 1/2 tsp salt, stir to combine and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to low and allow to simmer for 30minutes. Stir in dried bitter leaves (washed and cut into smaller sizes), cover and allow to simmer for additional 5 minutes. Serve with cornmeal or any choice of carb. Voila!
Bitter Melon (also known as bitter gourd, bitter squash and balsam-pear) is a sour squash that is a great addition to stir fries and soups. Winter melon soup is reputed to be good for weight loss and anti-swelling. It is called 冬瓜 (dong gua) in mandarin and is a fairly big round fruit with dark green skin. It looks like a water melon but is actually a squash. Egusi (also known by variations including agusi, agushi) is the name for the fat- and protein-rich seeds of certain cucurbitaceous plants (squash, melon, gourd), which after being dried and ground are used as a major ingredient in West African cuisine.
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