# Oha Soup

Oha soup is a rich and delicious Nigerian soup made with fresh Oha and Uziza leaf.

- Cuisine: Ethiopian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Oha leaf
- Uziza leaf
- dry fish
- cocoyam
- stock fish head
- palm juice
- crayfish
- pepper
- ogiri igbo
- seasoning
- salt
- goat meat

## Instructions

1. Cook cocoyam to use as a thickener.
2. Cook any protein, such as goat meat, with seasoning and dry pepper.
3. Cover the protein, and steam for fifteen minutes without water.
4. Wash and soak the stockfish head with salt and hot water, then with cold water until it is clean.
5. Check on the goat meat after fifteen minutes and then add water.
6. Add the stockfish head and cook until the meat is about 70% done.
7. Break up the palm fruit pulp in a bowl and add hot water.
8. Strain to get palm fruit juice.
9. Blend the cooked cocoyam until smooth.
10. Blend some crayfish and pepper together.
11. Cut up the Oha vegetable.
12. Add the palm fruit juice, stock head, blended crayfish and pepper to the meat, and allow it to come to a boil.
13. Add a little ogili and the cocoyam paste, and let it cook until the soup thickens.
14. Add the Oha and Uziza leaf last, cover and let it steam for 2 minutes.

## Tips

- Coco yam paste is the traditional thickener for this soup.
- Oha is a very soft vegetable, so add that last and cook for just two minutes.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/wL2xe5hxJis?si=lVENilu3xfRGIZMT
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/8e296dd1-bd54-4b70-a135-e2f6dd86e414
- Extracted: 2025-05-12

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