Recipe: Eating on a Dime Oha soup and garri

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Oha soup and garri. Oha soup is an eastern Nigerian classic. It is a leafy soup which combines oha and uziza leaves, and the distinctive smoky flavour of fermented oil beans. It generally eaten with garri, pounded yam or fufu.

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.

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Oha Soup with a choice of Pounded, Garri-Eba, Semolina, Wheat fufu, Oat fufu, Amala.

You can cook Oha soup and garri using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Oha soup and garri

  1. Prepare of Meat.

  2. You need leaves of Oha.

  3. It’s of Salt.

  4. Prepare of Achi.

  5. You need of Pepper.

  6. Prepare of Crayfish.

  7. It’s of Palmoil.

  8. You need cubes of Maggi.

  9. It’s of Ogiri.

  10. Prepare of Uziza seeds.

Achi is a very effective thickener for preparing Ora (Oha) Soup, Bitterleaf Soup, Ofe Owerri and all soups where cocoyam is used as thickener.

Ensure the leaf retains its greenness.

Serve with any solid food (Wheat, Semolina, Pounded yam, Eba, and Fufu).

Oha soup is native to the eastern part of Nigeria.

Oha soup and garri step by step

  1. Shred the oha leaves,season and boil meat..

  2. Top up water in the boiled meat add palmoil and boil very well..

  3. Sprinkle in achi boil untill is a thick add pepper,maggi cubes,uziza seeds,crayfish,salt and ogiri.boil very well..

  4. Add the oha leaves stir and simmer for 2minutes.boil water and pour over garri in a bowl.

My aunt sorts out the best and uses it for oha soup on the day the oha leaves arrive, then the other not so fresh oha she sets aside to use for ofe onu mmuo.

In other words Oha must not go to waste.

Oha Soup Oha soup is native to the South Eastern Nigeria.

It is a very traditional soup similar to the bitterleaf soup but cooked with Oha leaves..

Semolina, Garri and Cassava Fufu. see ingredients and preparation.