Oha Soup

Brenda Njemanze
Brenda Njemanze @grubskitchen
Nigeria

This is one of my favorite soup and I get to cook it side by side with Ofe Akwu; using the palm nut extraction as my base for the name but different vegetables. The uziza leaf 🍃 drives this soup home for me

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Ingredients

85mins
10 servings
  1. 1 kgpalm fruit
  2. 4 bunchOha Leaf
  3. 1 bunchUziza leaf
  4. 1 kggoat meat
  5. 1large head stock fish
  6. 1/2 kgoffal (shaki, roundabout)
  7. 7snail 🐌 (washed)
  8. 2 tbspcrayfish (blended)
  9. 6coco yam
  10. 4knorr cube
  11. 8fresh habanero pepper (blended)
  12. Kpomo dice
  13. to tasteSalt
  14. 1large dry catfish
  15. 2wraps of ogiri

Cooking Instructions

85mins
  1. 1

    Wash and parboil palm fruit till it’s tender and cooked through; this should take roughly 30mins depending on your burner

  2. 2

    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

  3. 3

    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)

  4. 4

    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

  5. 5

    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

  6. 6

    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

  7. 7

    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

  8. 8

    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

  9. 9

    Serve with hot yellow eba

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Brenda Njemanze
Brenda Njemanze @grubskitchen
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I love to experiment base on what I can see in the kitchen; I walk into the kitchen blind and I come out with a plate of food. My kitchen is my laboratory and you can be my lab rat 😋😋😋. A foodie by day and A foodie by night. #Icookueat
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