Cookbook:Oha Soup

Oha Soup
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Oha soup is a Nigerian delicacy, especially among the Igbo people.

Ingredients

• Meat
• Onion, chopped
• Stock cube
• Stockfish
• Palm kernel, washed
• Ede (cocoyam)
• Yellow pepper
• Ground crayfish
• Kpomo, washed
• Dryfish, washed
• Oha leaf, sliced
• Uziza leaf, sliced

Equipment

• Pots
• Mortar and pestle
• Cooking spoon
• Colander

Procedure

1. Combine the meat, onion, stock cube, and stockfish in a pot. Cook for 3 minutes.
2. Cover with water and boil very well. Set aside.
3. Boil the palm kernel in a separate pot of water until soft. Drain in a colander.
4. Pound the palm kernel using a mortar and pestle. Add a small amount of warm water and mix well, then strain the liquid into the pot of soup. Repeat with a little more water. Discard the solids.
5. Bring the soup back to a slow simmer.
6. Boil the cocoyam until soft, then drain and peel it.
7. Pound the cocoyam in a mortar with the crayfish and yellow pepper. Add the mixture to the soup pot.
8. Add the kpomo and dryfish, and season the soup with salt to taste.
9. When the soup is almost ready, stir in the oha and uziza leaves. Cover and simmer for 2–3 minutes.
10. Stir and serve hot.