Cooking In the Kitchen (Vegan Egusi)

Feeling like we have an unstoppable kitchen. ‪#‎pattyman‬ ‪#‎vegan‬‪#‎babasvegancafe‬ ‪#‎firstladyofpatties‬ #egusi Showing us that egusi life vegan style. Baba's Cafe, a diasporic cuisine.

Egusi soup is a kind of soup thickened with the ground seeds and popular in West Africa, with considerable local variation.[2]Besides the seeds, water, and oil, egusi soup typically contains leaf vegetables, other vegetables, seasonings, and meat. Typical leaf vegetables for egusi soup include bitterleaf, celosia and spinach. Typical other vegetables include tomatoes andokra. Typical seasonings include chili peppers, onions, and iru (fermented beans). Typical meats include beef, goat, fish,shrimp, or crayfish.

In Nigeria, egusi is very popular among the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria, the Ibibio people and the Efik people (Calabar people) of Southern Nigeria, the Hausa of northern Nigeria and the Yoruba people, Edo people, Esan people, and Etsako people of the southwest of Nigeria. Yoruba people in general and quite notably the people of Ọṣun State – especially the Ijeshapeople – eat ‘Iyan and Egusi’, a pounded yam and egusi soup.