Ingredients for Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds
- 1 cup ground pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 cup Red oil /Palm Oil
- 1 full onion sliced
- 1/2 cup grounded cayenne pepper/ freshly ground red pepper
- 3 spoons locust beans
- 1 cup periwinkles (out of shell)
- 1 large smoked fish
- 3 spoons ground crayfish
- 1 plate of assorted meat (offals /beef/Pomo)
- 1 plate of freshly sliced Pumpkin leaves/spinach
- 1 table spoon salt
- 1 bullion of Knorr stock cube
- 2 spoons vegetables oil(optional
Cooking Instructions for making Efo Elegusi-Vegetables with ground pumpkin seeds
PREPARATION:; Firat you prepare all your ingredients by washing your periwinkles and cleaning the smoked fish, wash your assorted meat and set it on the fire to boil till it’s tender, while you wait slice your onions and also wash your locust beans ( they sometimes have some shell particles in them so Watch out. Also wash the pumpkin leaves /spinach and drain.Set all these aside.
In a clean pot, add some red oil/palm oil to the pot and let it heat up for 2 minutes and it looks almost crystal clear. Add your sliced onions and stir for a minute to 2 minutes. Now add your prewinkles and let the stir fry for a minute, Now add your ground pepper/fresh pepper to the oils and add your boiled meat to the pot, this should simmer for about 3 minutes now add your smoked fish and the grounded crayfish.
Now you add your vegetables as well as the salt and bullion stock cube, if you have some stock from the boiled meat you can add a spoon or two (large serving spoon).in a small boil add two spoons of groundnut oil to the groused pumpkin seeds and mix throughly,now form it into small balls and add it to the vegetables and cover for two minutes and then stir. Remember to stir carefully as not to break the fish into pieces. You can serve your Soup with Eba/ Semo/Fufu/pounded yam/Amala/Rice. Enjoy
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