Oha soup and garri. Oha Soup with Garri Paprika Rolls 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.
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Oha Soup with a choice of Pounded, Garri-Eba, Semolina, Wheat fufu, Oat fufu, Amala.
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.
You can have Oha soup and garri using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Oha soup and garri
- Prepare of Meat.
- It's leaves of Oha.
- Prepare of Salt.
- You need of Achi.
- Prepare of Pepper.
- It's of Crayfish.
- You need of Palmoil.
- It's cubes of Maggi.
- It's of Ogiri.
- It's of Uziza seeds.
In other words Oha must not go to waste. If you've gotten your hands on fresh oha leaves, make a pot of oha soup. This Nigerian specialty is thickened with cocoyam paste and seasoned with smoked fish, dried shrimp, and your favorite meats. Cook the soup until it's as thick as you like and then stir in palm oil and oha leaves.
Oha soup and garri step by step
- Shred the oha leaves,season and boil meat..
- Top up water in the boiled meat add palmoil and boil very well..
- Sprinkle in achi boil untill is a thick add pepper,maggi cubes,uziza seeds,crayfish,salt and ogiri.boil very well..
- Add the oha leaves stir and simmer for 2minutes.boil water and pour over garri in a bowl.
Serve the soup with fufu and enjoy! 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.
