DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Egusi Soup
Also known as: Obe Egusi
Nigerian egusi soup with ground melon seeds, pepper sauce, spinach, beef, crayfish and dried fish.
About Egusi Soup
This Nigerian egusi soup is a thick West African soup built around ground egusi melon seeds. Lola Osinkolu's selected version combines them with a pepper sauce, spinach, beef, tripe, dried fish and crayfish.
Egusi gives the soup a rich nutty flavour, while palm oil, fermented locust beans and peppers make it earthy, savoury and warm. Crayfish, dried fish, beef and stock deepen that flavour.
The cooked egusi forms soft clusters through the dense red-orange sauce, with leafy spinach and pieces of meat and fish throughout. Swallow foods or rice are serving suggestions, not ingredients in this profile.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Crustaceans, Fish.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Egusi Soup
Lola Osinkolu's Nigerian egusi soup with spinach, beef and dried fish.
- Ground egusi melon seedsSoup base
- Palm oilCooking medium
- CrayfishSavoury seasoning
- Fermented locust beansSeasoning
- SpinachLeafy green
- Red bell pepperPepper-sauce base
- Habanero pepperPepper-sauce seasoning
- Fresno pepperPepper-sauce seasoning
- OnionAromatic
- Stock cubeOptional seasoning · Optional_component · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- BeefProtein
- Beef tripeProtein
- Dried fishProtein
- Cow legProteinIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- Beef stockCooking liquid
- WaterBlending and consistency liquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Ground egusi melon seeds: . The established catalogue egusi identity is used for the source's ground egusi melon.
- Palm oil:
- Crayfish: . The source does not name the crayfish species; the approved dried-crayfish identity matches its blended seasoning use.
- Fermented locust beans: . The source describes the locust beans as the earthy umami seasoning used in the sauce.
- Spinach:
- Red bell pepper:
- Habanero pepper:
- Fresno pepper: . No exact approved Fresno cultivar page exists; the broader approved chilli-pepper mapping is retained explicitly.
- Onion: . The source divides the onions between the pepper sauce, egusi mixture and palm-oil saute; one ingredient card consolidates those allocations.
- Stock cube (optional): . Optional compound product; exact supplier formula and ingredient mapping remain unresolved.
- Beef:
- Beef tripe:
- Dried fish: . Fish species is not specified.
- Cow leg: . No exact approved cow-leg cut mapping is available; identity remains unresolved rather than being replaced with generic beef.
- Salt:
- Beef stock: . Beef stock is selected from the source's beef-or-chicken stock branch; exact prepared-stock formula remains unresolved.
- Water: . The source uses water for blending and conditionally for consistency; allocations are consolidated.
Origins & food traditions
The source describes egusi as a West African staple that is particularly common in Nigeria and explicitly presents this as one version among distinct egusi preparations.
Countries
- Nigeria
- NigeriaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Nigerian
- West African
- Nigerian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.