Steps to Make Homemade Pounded yam with Melon soup

Pounded yam with Melon soup. Nigerian most popular local soup made with melon seeds, locust beans, palm oil, pepper, dry prawn, smoked fish and a dash of spinach etc. Melon soup also known as egusi soup is a popular soup recipe in the Western part of Africa. This soup is best served with pounded yam, fufu or eba.

Then, we scoop some stew or soup over it and we eat it. Often time it's swallowed, but sometimes it requires a bit of chewing depending on the type. Egusi soup is popular in Western Africa. You can have Pounded yam with Melon soup using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Pounded yam with Melon soup

1. Prepare 1 of Yam tuber.
2. You need 1 bunch of spinach.
3. It's 1 cup of grounded melon(also known as egusi).
4. Prepare of Spices and seasoning.
5. It's of Palm oil 4table spoons.
6. Prepare of Stock fish.
7. You need of Beef or meat of your choice.
8. It's 2 of Chopped red chilli.
9. You need 2 of Chopped onion.

The soup is thickened with ground melon, gourd, or squash seeds. Look for the seeds in African or International grocery stores. Pumpkin seeds, also known as pepitas, can be substituted and are available in Latin American grocery stores. Pounded Yam is the most stretchy of all the Nigerian fufu recipes that is if it is well prepared.

Pounded yam with Melon soup step by step

1. Peel yam,wash,cook till soft and tender,pound it using mortar and pestle till smooth and soft,mould and keep in a warmer,keep a side 1.
2. In a pot on flame, add 2cups of water,wash beef,stock and add,add seasoning and chopped onion,let it boil for 30mins till meat is soft and tender,add a cup of water,add spices and seasoning,add (red chilli)pepper,add palm oil,add grounded melon,cover let it boil and thickens,wash spinach and cut thinly, wash it thorougly again after cut,then add to the cooked melon,off flame and cover pot let the spinach simmer unflamely.
3. Soup is ready,serve with pounded yam.

It has the softness of semolina fufu hence it is not as hard as cassava fufu. To prepare pounded yam from scratch, you simply cook white yam and pound the yam pieces with a mortar and pestle when done. The hassles and difficulty involved in making pounded yam through the conventional way of using mortal and pestle has led many people to delete the meal from their family's menu. In recent times, the proliferation of an alternative — poundo yam. Egusi Soup and Pounded Yam Recipes