Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, ofe oha (oha soup). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

If you haven't had Ofe Oha or Ofe ora whichever you choose to call it, depending on your dialect,you definitely won't understand the hype about this delightful delicacy from the South Eastern part of Nigeria. This soup is a typical example of the saying ' you never know what you have until you loose it.' Oha Soup, popularly referred to as Ofe Oha by the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria is an absolutely delicious traditional soup recipe. Oha soup isn't exactly a go-to kind of soup because the main ingredient, Oha leaves, is a seasonal one.

Ofe oha (oha soup) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Ofe oha (oha soup) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook ofe oha (oha soup) using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ofe oha (oha soup):

1. Prepare Red meat
2. Get Dried meat
3. Take Stockfish
4. Make ready leaves Oha
5. Take Ogiri igbo
6. Get leaves uziza
7. Take Smoked fish
8. Make ready Banga fruit or palm oil
9. Get Seasonings
10. Prepare Cocoyam or powdered cocoyam
11. Make ready Fresh pepper and crayfish

Oha soup known as ofe oha is a soup native to the Eastern people of Nigeria. I once saw someone post a poison as oha soup, please that is not our oha, lol. Another sister complained the leaves were hard, fresh oha leaves are not hard. Oh yes, you read that correctly.

Steps to make Ofe oha (oha soup):

1. Wash and cook the red meat with preferred seasonings. when the meat is half way boiling,add the washed stockfish, smoked fish and dry meats to boil together.
2. Wash and cook the cocoyam, when done, peel off the back and blend until a smooth batter is achieved. Add the cocoyam batter and red oil to the meat stock and allow to cook until the batter is well dissolved.
3. Blend crayfish and pepper,add it to the boiling stock. At this stage,add ogiri igbo to the soup and continue cooking.
4. Slice the uziza leaves,also slice oha leaves not too tiny, better still use ur hand and tear the leaves. Wash uziza and oha leaves thoroughly with salt and add to the boiling stock..
5. Your delicious oha soup is ready to be eaten with any swallow of your choice.

One of you left a snippet of this recipe as a comment ages ago. At first glance you would think it was Egusi soup Oha soup is definitely going to make the list of Nigerian popular soups. You are probably here because you want to learn how to make oha soup the exact way an Igbo woman would prepare it. We are still on foods eaten by different Nigerian ethnic groups. Ofe Ora (as the people of Igbo call it) is one of the.

So that is going to wrap this up for this special food ofe oha (oha soup) recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am sure that you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!