Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, oha soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Oha Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Oha Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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. Ofe Ora (as the people of Igbo call it) is one of the most delicious soups that is popularly made and eaten by the people of Igbo.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook oha soup using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Oha Soup:
- Prepare 1 kg palm fruit
- Get 4 bunch Oha Leaf
- Make ready 1 bunch Uziza leaf
- Prepare 1 kg goat meat
- Prepare 1 large head stock fish
- Prepare 1/2 kg offal (shaki, roundabout)
- Make ready 7 snail 🐌 (washed)
- Get 2 tbsp crayfish (blended)
- Get 6 coco yam
- Take 4 knorr cube
- Get 8 fresh habanero pepper (blended)
- Prepare Kpomo dice
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 large dry catfish
- Prepare 2 wraps of ogiri
This Nigerian specialty is thickened with cocoyam paste and seasoned with smoked fish, dried shrimp, and your favorite meats. Cook the soup until it's as thick as you like and then stir in palm oil and oha leaves. Serve the soup with fufu and enjoy! Oha soup is made in a similar way to ofe onugbu in that it is made with a thickener.
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
Serve the soup with fufu and enjoy! Oha soup is made in a similar way to ofe onugbu in that it is made with a thickener. This thickener could be traditionally Coco yam (boiled and pounded or processed in the food processor then added to the soup.) Oha soup (or ora oup) is an authentic dish from South Eastern Nigeria. This soup is a very traditional meal which is similar to the bitterleaf soup; but people cook it with ora leaves. Oha Soup is unique and delicious because the tender ora leaves that they use in preparing this dish and its recipe, are seasonal unlike their bitterleaf; which.
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