LearnWithSteem: Recipe of Oha Soup

Greetings Steemit Chefs!

Welcome to my recipe blog where I share all kinds of unique and amazing recipes. Today, I have come with another amazing recipe. This recipe is common in the Eastern region part of Nigeria ( the Igbo's cuisine). The main ingredient for this recipe is 'Oha Leaf' which is why this delicious delicacy is called 'Oha Soup'

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Now, let's proceed to the ingredients used and step-by-step preparation process of making Oha Soup;

Ingredients Used

• Oha leaf
• Achi (thickener)
• Fresh fish
• Onions
• Fresh pepper
• Maggi
• Palm oil (red oil)
• Stock fish
• Periwinkle
• Crayfish
• Salt
• Cow skin

Preparation Procedures

Step 1: Wash the fish with hot water, season with; maggi, salt, fresh pepper and onions, add a little water and steam for about 5 minutes.

Seasoned fish

Step 2: Add stockfish and cow skin to it and continue steaming

Adding stock fish and cow skin

Step 3: Add red oil and other ingredients ( maggi, salt and fresh pepper) and allow it to cook for 2 minutes before adding a cup of water.

Pouring oil into the pot	Adding maggi

Step 4: Add achi ( the soup thickener) and boil for 5 minutes ( it is healthy to cook achi properly).

Adding soup thickener

Step 5: Add periwinkle and crayfish then allow it to cook for just a minute.

Adding periwinkle	Adding crayfish

Step 6: the last step is adding of Oha leaf. I used my bare hands to cut the leaves into pieces without the use of knife.

Oha leaf

After allowing the leaf cook for 1 minute, I turned off the gas and my delicious Oha Soup was ready in no time.

Oha soup is ready

This soup can be served with different kinds of swallow; garri, fufu, pounded yam or semovita. Here, I served mine with fufu.

Well served

This soup is very healthy and you can prepare it with less than #5,600 (21 steem) depending on your budget. Let's see how much I used in preparing mine;

Ingredients	Price in Naira	Price in Steem
Oha leaf	#200	0.75 steem
Achi (thickener)	#200	0.75 steem
Fresh fish	#3,000	11.2 steem
Onions	#100	0.38 steem
Fresh pepper	#200	0.75 steem
Maggi (knor cubes)	#200	0.75 steem
Stock fish	#500	1.9 steem
Periwinkle	#300	1.2 steem
Crayfish	#200	0.75 steem
Cow skin	#300	1.2 steem
Total	#5,200	19.63 steem

Other ingredients like; salt and red oil were already at home so basically, I did not purchase all the ingredients used. I hope this recipe will be helpful today or in future. Let's keep the energy high to learn new things with steem. Thank you!

Photo credit: Steemit Star Chef @adylinah🧑‍🍳 💫