Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, oha soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Oha Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Oha Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
Ora (Oha) soup is native to the South Eastern Nigeria. It is a very traditional soup similar to the bitterleaf soup but cooked with Ora leaves. Ora (Oha) Soup is special because the tender ora leaves used in preparing this soup recipe are seasonal unlike their bitterleaf counterpart which can be found all year round.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook oha soup using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Oha Soup:
- Take 1 kg palm fruit
- Get 4 bunch Oha Leaf
- Prepare 1 bunch Uziza leaf
- Make ready 1 kg goat meat
- Take 1 large head stock fish
- Get 1/2 kg offal (shaki, roundabout)
- Make ready 7 snail 🐌 (washed)
- Take 2 tbsp crayfish (blended)
- Make ready 6 coco yam
- Get 4 knorr cube
- Prepare 8 fresh habanero pepper (blended)
- Get Kpomo dice
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 1 large dry catfish
- Take 2 wraps of ogiri
Oha soup(a.ka;Ora/Uha soup or Ofe Oha/uha/ Ora) is a delicious Soup recipe from the eastern part of Nigeria. It is one of those native Igbo soups that you taste and just can't forget. This rich and nutritious soup is usually prepared with the leaves of the African Pterocarpus soyauxii / Pterocarpus mildbraedi tree, known traditionally as Oha leaves. Oha, also referred to as ora soup is an African traditional soup prepared with oha leaves and highly sorted for, due to its unique delicious taste.
Steps to make Oha Soup:
- Wash and parboil palm fruit till it’s tender and cooked through; this should take roughly 30mins depending on your burner
- Drain palm fruit and place in a mortar; pound till you shred out the palm fruit skin, while you are at it, boil water for the extraction and set aside
- Add boiled water into the palm fruit and stir; (be careful not to hurt yourself) and sieve out the juice once you are done, heat up the juice and allow it cook till it starts to concentrate, (you can decide to parboiled your meat in the palm fruit juice or separate, I prefer separate so I can spice my meat to my taste)
- Wash goat meat, offal, stock fish and parboil with little water spice with salt, knorr cube and pepper allow to cook till it’s tender halfway add the kpomo and snail reason is to avoid over cooking it
- In a small pot, wash coco yam and cook till it’s tender; remove the back peel and pound in a mortar adding a little palm fruit oil to help ease the pounding and avoid lumps. Once you are done set aside
- Once the palm fruit is getting concentrated add the cooked meat and the dry cat fish after washing it allow it cook for 10mins, then add the coco yam this will help thicken the soup
- Shred Oha leaf with your hands and not with a knife (myth not verified) dice uziza leaf; wash the leaf separately and set them aside
- Add crayfish, pepper, knorr cube, ogiri and salt stir after about 5mins add oha leaf and uziza leaf immediately after stir and turn off heat
- Serve with hot yellow eba
It is very easy to prepare and also not time consuming once you can make it. Moreover, it is a very special soup prepared mostly during festivals and occasions. Achi is a very effective thickener for preparing Ora (Oha) Soup, Bitterleaf Soup, Ofe Owerri and all soups where cocoyam is used as thickener. Achi Soup with Oha [Video] Recipes Related to Achi Soup: Ofe Owerri; Bitterleaf Soup; Ora (Oha) Soup with Cocoyam Oha Soup or Ora (Ibo)or Nkpa soup( Efik ) is made with the oha leaves which has a characteristic aroma and is largely found in the south east of Nigeria. When buying your soup ingredients you will normally find this vegetable in market sections where Ibo women sell cooking ingredients.
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