Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, oha soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ora (Oha) soup is native to the South Eastern Nigeria. Ora (Oha) Soup is special because the tender ora leaves used in preparing this soup recipe are seasonal unlike their bitterleaf counterpart. And the best oha soup is made from fresh oha leaves.
Oha Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Oha Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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
- Make ready 1 bunch Uziza leaf
- Make ready 1 kg goat meat
- Prepare 1 large head stock fish
- Make ready 1/2 kg offal (shaki, roundabout)
- Take 7 snail 🐌 (washed)
- Make ready 2 tbsp crayfish (blended)
- Make ready 6 coco yam
- Prepare 4 knorr cube
- Take 8 fresh habanero pepper (blended)
- Make ready Kpomo dice
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 1 large dry catfish
- Prepare 2 wraps of ogiri
If you've gotten your hands on fresh oha leaves, make a pot of oha soup. This Nigerian specialty is thickened with cocoyam paste and seasoned with smoked fish, dried shrimp, and your favorite meats. See great recipes for Oha Soup Recipe, Wheat swallow with oha soup too! Oha Soup, popularly referred to as Ofe Oha by the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria is an absolutely delicious traditional soup recipe.
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
Oha soup isn't exactly a go-to kind of soup because the main. 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. Oha soup is a traditional soup similar to the bitter leaf soup but cooked with oha leaves. Oha leaves is used in preparing oha soup, it is called ora leaves in some areas in the Eastern part of Nigeria like in.
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