Preparing African Recipe: Oha soup 🍛

in SteemFoods4 years ago

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Hello Steemians,
Hope you're having a lovely time?

Today, i'm going to take you down to African down to Nigeria, for a popular recipe prepared and eaten, especially from the south-south and Eastern part of Nigeria. This recipe is known as Oha Soup. It is enjoyed mostly with any kind of swallow and i bet you it's taste is irresistable 😋.
Apart from the fact it is delicious, it also has so many health benefit. So hang on as i take you through this journey.

Ingredients

  • Fresh fish (of your choice), here i used Mackerel, or meat

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  • uziza leaves /Parsley leaves (optional)

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  • Oha leaves /African Rosewood leaves

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  • Palm oil

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  • Fresh pepper, 3 cubes of seasoning, a small bulb of onion
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  • thickener (You can choose to use any thickener of your choice. Some people use cocoyam, others use oatmeal, but i used ofor)
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  • Dried fish
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PREPARATION
*Step 1

Getting the Ingredients Ready
Start by washing and spicing our meat or fish

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We proceed to plucking, washing and slicing the leaves

Uziza leaf
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Oha leaf
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Diced onions

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We're blending our fresh pepper and crayfish together

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Washed and prepared dried fish
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Step 2

  • Cooking the food

First put a reasonable amount of water in the pot and place on fire, then add the diced onions and palm oil and allow to boil

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adding thickener, stir and allow to boil
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Adding dried fish, stir and allow to boil for about two minutes
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Adding blended fresh pepper and stir

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Adding seasonal cubes and salt to taste, then stir

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allow to boil and always stir

adding uziza leaf and stir
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allow to boil for like 10seconds

then add oha leaf

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stir and allow to boil for 10seconds

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  • our oha soup is ready to be consumed

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Thank you all for going through my post.

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 4 years ago 

Hello :

Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipe in detail in SteemFoods Community. We gave this post a vote with one of the @booming accounts. Continue creating content in the SteemFoods Community. :)

Thank you so much sir 😊