Recipe: Eating on a Dime My oha soup
Recipe: Eating on a Dime My oha soup Delicious, fresh and tasty.
My oha soup. 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 (ofe ora) is actually my best soup.
Serve with any swallow of your choice.
Ps: Oha Leaves are very soft and tender; bring down your soup almost immediately after adding the leaves.
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.
You can have My oha soup using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of My oha soup
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Prepare of oha leaf.
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Prepare of Small size of uziza.
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It’s of tiny seed of uziza.
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Prepare of Quaker oat (in place of cocoyam).
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Prepare of Mr chef seasoning.
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Prepare of Salt.
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Prepare of Crayfish.
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You need of Ginger and garlic.
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You need of Akwu.
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You need of Pepper.
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It’s of Meat.
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It’s of Stock fish.
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Prepare of Dryfish.
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It’s of Locust beans paste (ogiri isi).
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 is a delicacy from the eastern part of Nigeria.
The leaf has a mouth-watering aromatic flavour and the taste is absolutely delectable.
My oha soup step by step
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Cook the akwu,pound and extract the water then pour into a pot.
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Put the pot on fire add ur grinded pepper,salt,crayfish,uziza seedand locust beans paste.pour the meats into the pot..
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Make a paste with the quaker oat (It acts like a thickner).Add salt to taste.
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Add the shredded uziza leaf and oha leaf.
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Serve with akpu,semolina or garri.
Remove the lid and stir in the pieces of oha leaves.
Adjust the salt and serve the soup..
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.
This rich and nutritious soup is usually prepared with the leaves of the African Pterocarpus soyauxii / Pterocarpus mildbraedi tree, known traditionally as Oha leaves.
