Cookbook:Miyan Taushe (Nigerian Pumpkin Soup)

Miyan taushe (pumpkin stew) is a popular soup in northern Nigeria. It can be served as stew or soup and eaten with tuwo, fufu, wheat, or rice.

Ingredients

 * Nigerian pumpkin
 * Meat (beef or goat), washed and cut in pieces
 * Onions, chopped
 * Salt, to taste
 * Seasoning/stock cube
 * Fresh habanero pepper
 * Dawadawa
 * 2–3 cooking spoons vegetable oil
 * Tomato paste
 * Groundnut
 * Stockfish
 * Ground crayfish
 * Smoked Titus fish
 * Vegetables of your choice, washed and sliced

Procedure

 * 1) Add the meat, onions, salt, and seasoning cube to a pot over medium heat. Stir, and cook in its own juice.
 * 2) Remove the skin from the pumpkin, and cut it into cubes.
 * 3) Add the pumpkin pieces to the meat, and add enough water to cover the pumpkin. Simmer until the meat and pumpkin are tender.
 * 4) Blend onions, habanero pepper, and dawa dawa to a smooth paste.
 * 5) Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Sprinkle in some salt, then add the blended pepper mix, and some tomato paste. Stir well, cover, and cook for about 10–12 minutes.
 * 6) Remove the softened pumpkin from the boiling meat. Blend the pumpkin and the groundnut into a very smooth paste.
 * 7) Add the stockfish, ground crayfish, dried prawns, smoked Titus fish, and fried pepper mix to the meat.
 * 8) Stir in the blended pumpkin and groundnut mixture. Cover, and simmer for a few minutes.
 * 9) Add the sliced vegetables. If the soup is too thick, loosen it by adding some water. Stir and check for salt.
 * 10) When you have gotten the consistency you want, turn off the heat.
 * 11) Serve with tuwo shinkafa or any other swallow of your choice.