"Recipe of the Day, Week No. 47: (melon soup recipe)”

samuelnkenta (61)in Steemit Iron Chef • 2 days ago

Greetings everyone on this wonderful community I believe you all are doing well, am here to participate in this contest "Recipe of the Day, Week No. 47" Different delicacy has different tastes and do require different methods of preparation. The taste of a food is based by various fact which includes ingredients, cooking techniques, spices and seasonings.

The method of preparation be different depending on whether the food is being baked, fried, boiled or steamed. These differences in taste and preparation methods can also base on traditions.

today I'm going to post a special delicacy of food known as melon soup in my country.

Melon soup is deep rooted delicacy in the culture heritage of the Ibibio and Efik people which happens to be my culture. It is often prepared anytime or during special occasions and others ceremonies.

in total this is all ingredients that was required in preparing my melon soup

Before preparing melon soup it requires skill and knowledge to properly combine the ingredients and achieve the desired taste.
Below are the steps I followed to prepare mine.

Ingredients that are requires are:

Above are the ingredients use in cooking melon soup base on the standard you wish.

KEY INGREDIENTS	price amount in naira	price in steem
melon	N500	1.2
chicken	N500	1.2
cray fish	N100	0.102
water leaf	N300	0.82
hot leaf	100	0.102
maggi	100	0.102
garri	500	1.2
pepper	100	0.102
skin meat	200	0.18
salt	small	small
water	1½cups depends	1½cups you can add other water if it tick too much
palm oil	small	small
onion	100	0.102

how I prepared it

I first of all make sure the basics ingredients was ready and kept in place, i started with thoroughly Washing and slicing them.
crayfish was ready same with chicken and skin meat(cow skin)

my sliced water leaf

Putting all the necessary ingredients for steaming, i steamed it with a cup of water for about five(5) minutes to dissolve out the taste

Chicken during seasoning

After the seasoning of the chicken and skin meat I added another ½ cup of water before putting the melon and oil.

my granted melon

Putting melon

Addition of oil

after that I cover the pot for the melon and oil to mixed together that will take 30 to 50 second.
Then add my sliced water, onions and others ingredients such as crayfish, salt, maggi and pepper.

After adding all the basic ingredients I taste it to confirmed the soup is well taste then after I added my sliced hot leaf which happens to be the final thing to added after adding it I turn it small and it was done.

Here after all the necessary processes my melon soup was well prepared by me and ready for consumption, melon soup can be consumed with garri, fu-fu or semovita.