Oha Soup

Name: Oha Soup
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 2 cups oha leaves, sliced; 1 cup cocoyam, cooked and pounded; 500g assorted meat; 2 tbsp ground crayfish

Oha Soup/OH-hah soup/

Also known as: Ora Soup

About this dish

A savory Igbo vegetable soup made with oha leaves, thickened with cocoyam paste.

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Ingredients

🥬2 cups oha leaves, sliced

🥔1 cup cocoyam, cooked and pounded

🥩500g assorted meat

🌶️2 tbsp ground crayfish

Method

Serves 4

Cook the assorted meat until tender, reserving the stock.

Dissolve pounded cocoyam into the hot stock to thicken it.

Add palm oil and ground crayfish.

Stir in sliced oha leaves without excessive stirring, to avoid bruising them.

Simmer briefly and serve with fufu or pounded yam.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Oha soup is a traditional Igbo soup from southeastern Nigeria, named after the oha leaves that give it its distinctive flavor.

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