Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, oha soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ora Soup 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. If you've gotten your hands on fresh oha leaves, make a pot of oha soup.
Oha soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Oha soup is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook oha soup using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Oha soup:
- Prepare 10-12 small sized coco yam
- Take 750 g mutton (goat meat)/ meat of choice
- Prepare Stock fish or dried catfish
- Make ready leaves Oha
- Take leaves Uziza
- Prepare Crayfish as desired
- Prepare 1 Ogiri
- Take Yellow peppers
- Prepare 5 stock cubes
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 1 1/2 cups palm oil
- Get 2 medium sized onions
The Igbos are one of the popular ethnic groups in Nigeria. This soup is made with the leaves of a tree called oha. Ora soup is often prepared using cocoa-yam, egusi or ofor as the thickener. 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.
Instructions to make Oha soup:
- Wash coco yam and boil with the skin till tender
- Boil your meat together with the dried fish or stock fish with onions, salt and seasoning cubes to taste
- Wash and prepare all ingredients
- Once coco yam is tender, using your hands, peel off the skin and pound the coco Yam in a Mortar
- Add the pounded coco yam to the cooking pot of meat, Add in your palm oil, allow to cook till coco yam is dissolved. Add in your pepper, crayfish and ogiri
- Add in your uziza leaves and allow to cook for 3mins then add in your Oha leaves cook for a minute and voila..! Soup is ready
- It can be served with swallow of choice. Semo, fufu, eba, pounded yam etc
Ora soup is often prepared using cocoa-yam, egusi or ofor as the thickener. 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. 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. Oha soup (or ora oup) is an authentic dish from South Eastern Nigeria.
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