Simple Way to Make Perfect 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. A gameplay of Egusi Soup also known as melon seed soup, is a healthy and easy dinner recipe that is sure to make your mouth water. Pounded Yam is a staple in many West African homes, but it is not usually eaten by itself, it is often paired with many delicious African soups, and stews.

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

Egusi soup is popular in Western Africa. 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 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.

Pounded Yam is the most stretchy of all the Nigerian fufu recipes that is if it is well prepared. 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.