How to cook Ora (Oha) Soup

Ora (Oha) soup is local toward the South Eastern Nigeria. It is an exceptionally customary soup like the bitterleaf soup yet cooked with Ora takes off. Ora (Oha) Soup is uncommon in light of the fact that the delicate ora leaves utilized as a part of setting up this soup formula are regular not at all like their bitterleaf partner which can be discovered lasting through the year.

In spite of the fact that it is just the vegetable that recognizes the Ora Soup and the Bitterleaf Soup, they taste so unique that it is difficult to trust the distinction only one fixing can make in a formula.

Elements for Ora (Oha) Soup

• Vegetable: Ora clears out
• 8 little corms cocoyam
• 3 cooking spoons Red Palm Oil
• Grouped Beef: Includes best cut, shaki (bovine tripe)
• Grouped Fish: Dry Fish and Stock Fish
• Bean stew pepper, salt and crawfish (to taste)
• 2 Stock solid shapes
• 1 teaspoon Ogiri Igbo

Notes on the fixings:

• Ora (Oha) is an exceptional vegetable consequently does not have a decent option.
• In the event that you can't purchase cocoyam corms where you live, you can utilize cocoyam flour. An other option to cocoyam flour is potato flour. Perceive how to set up the cocoyam flour or potato flour before adding it to your soup at: How to Cook Nigerian Soups with Flour as Thickener.
• Ogiri Igbo is discretionary, it gives Ora Soup a conventional taste.
• Before you cook the Nigerian Ora Soup
• Crush the crawfish and pepper and put aside.
• pound cocoyam
• Wash and heat up the cocoyam corms till delicate. Expel the peels and utilize a mortar and pestle to pound the corms to a smooth glue.
• Utilizing your fingers, cut the Ora (Oha) leaves into modest pieces. This method is to keep the vegetable from getting to be noticeably darker in shading. This happens when you cut the ora leaves with a blade.

Cooking Directions 

• Heat up the shaki (dairy animals tripe), stock fish and dry fish in 1 liter of water till they are well done. To begin with indication of a done shaki is that the cuts will begin twisting on itself.
• Wash the meat and add to the pot of shaki and so on and keep cooking. At the point when the meat is done, include 2 stock 3D squares and cook for 5 minutes.
• Include the pepper, ogiri Igbo and ground crawfish and cook for 10 minutes. Include the cocoyam glue in little protuberances and after that the palm oil.
• Cover the pot and leave to cook on high warmth till all the cocoyam protuberances have broken down. You can include more water on the off chance that you feel that the soup is too thick.
• Include the ora (oha) leaves and leave to cook for around 5 minutes.
• Add salt to taste, blend and the soup is prepared!

Present with Garri (Eba), Semolina Fufu, Amala, Cassava Fufu or Pounded Yam.