How to cook Nigerian Beniseed soup with beef goat meat and smoked fish.
Beniseed is also known as sesame seed. If you like Nigerian egusi soup, then you’ll love this beniseed soup. Benni seed/Sesame seed is not only used for spraying on doughnuts, cakes and other pastries, can be made into delicious soup.
In Nigeria, It is grown along the Benue river by the Benue people of Nigeria and some parts of Northern Nigeria. It is also grown by some parts of Cross River State. This seed is grown mainly for food while most of it is exported to Europe where a little oil is extracted e.g Salad Oil and sesame oil. It is very nutritious and filling.
Beniseed/Sesame seed soup can
be served with any swallow of your choice. I love to lick or just eat the soup alone with a spoon.
INGREDIENTS FOR BENISEED SOUP With beef goat meat and smoked fish
1/2 mudu beniseed (Sesame seed) About 3 to 4 cups
1 kg Goat meat
1/2 kg beef
2 large smoked fish
1/2 cup ground crayfish
2 Seasoning cubes
my Pepper sauce, you can use 3 fresh peppers or more
1 medium sized Onion to boil meats
1 cup Palm oil
A bunch of Hot leaf (Uziza)
1 cup Locust beans (Dadawa)
Water to cover the meat after steaming.
Before you cook sesame soup, make sure your seed is ground and set aside. The easiest way is to let the seller clean and do the grinding there at the market for free.
Cooking Direction:
- Wash and boil the meat with salt, onion and 1 seasoning cube. Cover and let the meat cook until almost tender.
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If you are cooking with only beef meat, Do not add any water initially until beef is almost drying up, just keep checking so you don’t burn the pot. If cooking with both beef and goat meat, add like just 1 cup water to steam meats. Goat meat doesn’t have much natural juices.
- When meat is almost tender, add water to cover the meat a bit, add pepper, palm oil, washed dry fish, check for salt and cover the pot to boil.
- Once it boils, open and add the ground sesame seed in lumps and pieces to the pot, crayfish, add dadawa, the remaining seasoning cube and cover without stirring. Let it boil for about 5 minutes before you stir and check for salt again. Cover and leave to boil again, check and see that taste is what you want before finally adding the uziza leaves.
- The last thing to go into the pot is the vegetables, once you add them, stir, check for salt, leave to boil for about half an hour and turn off the heat. Serve with some fufu, eba, tuwo or any swallow of choice and watch your eaters ask for extra soup.
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Looks good
This is my 1st time ever hearing about this seed. Looks and cooks just like egusi soup. I hope the seed is readily available in Lagos bcos I am going to look for it tommorrow and try it. Eya did u wash the seeds b4 grinding. I think grinding it in the market will be better.
I washed mine and grinded at home. The sellers have a way of cleaning it so that your soup is not sandy. It tastes really good.
I also think grinding in the market is better.
Thank you Anon.
Nice one aunty Eya.pls Ȋ̝̊̅§ there any other name fφя̩̥̊ the benniseed cos .¶ really want to try Ȋ̝̊†̥ D̶̲̥̅̊Į̸̸̨Ƨ̷ wkend.thanks EPHY
I av never seen nor heard of it o! I hope dis lagos ppl would have it sha! Looks rily nice.
wow, uziza leaf has a way of adding a special flavour to meals. For interesting real stories see Diary of a mad woman
I don't think it has another name. Ask for benniseed from grain sellers
Looks like Egusi, I won't mind tasting it.
Also the 1st time I've heard of this seed. It looks really nice. Aunty Eya it seems we have converted you into liking thick soup.lol
Ooooo ahhhhhh wooooooooww salivating already
Thanks Shayor, yes, you'll find it in Lagos
You'll like it Myne, tastes really good
@Lizzy, for where, you guys should please try harder o. I still added a lil water to the one I ate. Eating it this thick won't let me savour the taste of the soup.
Thanks
Thank you Aunty Eya
Lol
wow…never heard of it. Apart from soup, is it used to make any other thing?
BTW, I tried the groundnut soup, not sure if I did it well but it wasnt my best soup ever…something about the taste…. Anyway, maybe it's just me.
It can be fried & eaten with groundnut as snacks.the english name is sesame seeds#team benniseed#
I was about to ask what the local name is, not knowing it is sesame seeds. I heard it is really nice, can't wait to try it.
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A friend of mine frm benue cooked dis 4 me once. Twas ok
I served in Benue and i remember eating this thinking it was egusi. it really nice. Thanks Aunty Eya.
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This soup is a special delicacy in my place. We cook it a lot and tastes very nice. Well done Aunty u did a nice job.
This looks really good Aunty Eya. Love the picture quality and the watermark. Very professionally done!
OMG!aunt eya,dis is my soup o!!!love it so much!!!kama..
If you call it sesame seed, the market sellers may not understand. I think Benniseed is what they know.
This looks nice but haven't seen sesame before though ve heard abt ity cuz of its oil richness.it looks like egusi soup.
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Anty, did u dehaul before grinding?
It's sometimes sprinkled on snacks like puff, doughnuts and even bread.
No need na