How many calories in egusi soup
A bowl of egusi soup has about 400 kcal, with 20 g of protein.
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Egusi soup is made with ground melon seeds, cooked in palm oil with peppers, onions and leafy greens like bitter leaf, ugu or spinach. Meat, fish, stockfish and ground crayfish go in too. It's thick and rich and eaten with a swallow like pounded yam or eba.
A bowl is 400 kcal, with 31 g of fat, 20 g of protein and 10 g of carbs. The seeds and the palm oil are where the fat comes from.
It's low in carbs on its own. With pounded yam next to it, the plate comes to about 760 kcal.
Tips
- 1Go easier on the palm oil, the seeds are rich already.
- 2Double the greens, they cost almost nothing in calories.
- 3Have more fish and less of the fatty cuts of meat.
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Questions
What is egusi?
The seeds of a type of melon, dried and ground. They thicken the soup and give it its nutty taste.
Is egusi soup high in protein?
Yes, about 20 g a bowl, from the seeds, the meat and the fish.
How many calories in egusi soup with pounded yam?
About 760 kcal, 400 for the soup and 360 for the yam.
Why is egusi soup high in fat?
The melon seeds are naturally oily, and the soup is cooked in palm oil. That makes about 31 g a bowl.
What do you eat egusi soup with?
A swallow: pounded yam, eba, fufu or amala. Some people have it with rice.
