Oha (Ora) Soup Recipe
Get ready to experience the magical flavors of Oha Soup with this extraordinary recipe. To make Oha Soup, you'll need palm fruits, cocoyam, stockfish, dry fish, meat, crayfish, ogiri, salt, pepper, and Oha leaves. Extract juice from palm fruits and cook oil. Cook cocoyam, pound into paste. Combine oil, stockfish, dry fish, meat, crayfish, ogiri, salt, and pepper in a pot, then simmer. Add cocoyam paste, stir, and cook. Add Oha leaves and cook until wilted. Serve hot. Enjoy the magical flavor!
Ingredients
- 2 kg Beef/ Chicken/lamb/turkey or your preferred protein cow tripe (shaki) will add more flavour
- Stockfish
- Smoked fish
- 1 tbsp Ogiri Igbo
- Periwinkle optional
- Ground crayfish
- Ponmo
- 3 cooking spoon of Palm Oil
- Red Onions optional
- 1 kg Cocoyam or Achi ( Soup Thickeners)
- Oha leaves cut using a knife or shredding with your fingers
- Uziza leaves Chopped
- Seasonings to taste
- Salt to taste
- Water/Stock
- Fresh Pepper
Instructions
- Wash the meat (protein of your choice) and cook it with preferred seasonings. let simmer for 5 minutes, then put a little water, cover and let cook till meat is tender.
- You can either add cocoyam while cooking the meat so it can cook together to save time or cook the cocoyam separately.
- After cooking the meat properly, add 2 cups of water. Then add palm oil and let it cook for ten more minutes. Remove the cocoyam and pound it in a mortar, or blend it using a blender or food processor.
- Add ground crayfish, ground pepper, and salt. Allow it to cook for an additional seven minutes.
- Add the pounded cocoyam paste or achi. Before adding achi to your soup, make sure to dissolve it in a little water. Cook for 3 minutes.
- Add Oziza leaves before adding Oha leaves.
- Allow it to cook for a minute and then switch off the heat.
- The delicious Oha soup you have been waiting for is now ready.
Notes
You can serve Oha soup with any swallow, but it's best with pounded yam. Some enjoy it alone. Click here to order.