Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, oha/ora soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Oha/Ora soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Oha/Ora soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook oha/ora soup using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Oha/Ora soup:
- Make ready Ede (cocoyam) thickener
- Make ready Oha
- Prepare Ogiri ofe Ede
- Make ready Seasoning
- Get Palm oil
- Get Beef or chicken
- Take Dry fish/ stockfish/ cat fish
- Prepare Salt
Oha soup isn't exactly a go-to kind of soup because the main ingredient, Oha leaves, is a seasonal one. Oha soup is a common dish in the South East areas of Nigeria. It`s a lot like the bitter leaf soup, but the most prominent ingredient of Oha soup is the Ora leaves that give the soup its unique taste. You can cook this soup only in its season cause Ora Leaves are not to be found all year round.
Instructions to make Oha/Ora soup:
- Cook meat with stockfish or dry fish for about 10-18 minutes
- Boil Ede until as soft as boiled yam.
- Pound until a smooth consistency is formed or blend by adding hot water to the content before blending. If you're pounding, add palm oil so you can pound easily.
- Remove beef and stockfish so they don't get soft.
- Add the pounded or blended cocoyam into the stock and let cook. Add palm oil depending on how colourful you like your food. Add the ogiri the cooking cocoyam and cook for 20 minutes until cocoyam has fully dissolved.
- Add seasoning cubes according to your taste, some blended peppers and salt to taste.
- Add the Oha leaf and cook for about five minutes. Oha has awesome qualities good for the body so don't overcook the leaf. Enjoy!
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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, 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.
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