FOOD : Oha Soup with Garri Paprika Rolls

 

Oha Soup with Garri Paprika Rolls Oha soup is an eastern Nigerian classic. It is a leafy soup which combines oha and uziza leaves, and the distinctive smoky flavour of fermented oil beans. It generally eaten with garri, pounded yam or fufu.

Ingredients

• 2 kg beef
• 3 chunks stock fish
• 1 dry fish
• 1 tbsp ogiri paste similar to iru or locust bean
• 2 tbsp cocoyam powder mixed with 100ml water
• 1 tbsp achi mixed with 50ml water
• 3 handfuls oha leaf roughly torn up by hand
• 2 handfuls uziza leaf thinly sliced
• 3 cooking spoons palm oil
•  salt to taste
• 4 - 6 stock cubes
•  powdered cayene pepper to taste
• 3 tbsp powdered crayfish

Instructions

1. Place the beef, stock fish, four stock cubes, salt and pepper in a pressure cooker and cook for about 45 minutes or until tender.
2. Transfer to a large soup pot - preferably a beat up looking local one that will show your soup some local and authentic love.
3. Let the simmering get into a nice rhythm, and then add the dry fish, the crayfish and the palm oil.
4. Add the achi and the ogiri. Stir, taste, and adjust the seasoning if necessary. Let this cook for a bit.
5. Time to add the sliced uziza leaves. Let them cook for a bit.
6. Add the torn oha leaves. Stir and allow the leaves to soften.
7. Take off the heat and enjoy.