Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special 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.
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 popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Oha Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have oha soup using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Oha Soup:
- Make ready 1 kg palm fruit
- Get 4 bunch Oha Leaf
- Get 1 bunch Uziza leaf
- Make ready 1 kg goat meat
- Prepare 1 large head stock fish
- Get 1/2 kg offal (shaki, roundabout)
- Prepare 7 snail 🐌 (washed)
- Take 2 tbsp crayfish (blended)
- Make ready 6 coco yam
- Take 4 knorr cube
- Make ready 8 fresh habanero pepper (blended)
- Take Kpomo dice
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 large dry catfish
- Take 2 wraps of ogiri
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 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
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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