The Market Girl

SOUP

Oha Soup

oha soup

Preparation Time: 5 mins

Cooking Time: 45 hours

Ingredients

Uziza seed

40g

assorted meat

Assorted meat (as per recipe)/Catfish/Barracuda fillets

1kg

locust beans

Ogiri dissolved in water

4 tbsp

water

1Ltr Water

maggi

Maggi stock

4 cubes

dry crayfish powder

Dry crayfish powder/shrimp powder

10g

chili powder

Chilli powder

10g

jollof spice

Oha leaves

2 bunches

palm oil

Palm oil/Vegetable oil/Olive oil

20ml

jollof spice

Achi/Other thickener

30g

Uzuza seed

40g

assorted meat

Assorted meat (as perrecipe)/Catfish/ Barracuda fillets

1kg

locust beans

Ogiri dissolved in water

4 tbsp

water

1Ltr Water

maggi

Maggi stock

4 cubes

dry crayfish powder

Dry crayfish powder/shrimp powder

10g

chili powder

Chilli powder

10g

jollof spice

Oha leaves

2 bunches

palm oil

Palm oil/Vegetable oil/Olive oil

20ml

jollof spice

Achi/Other thickener

30g

Preparation

  1. Boil the assorted meat/fish in 500 ml of water, adding the stock cubes, for 20 mins.
  2. Add oil and crayfish/shrimp powder and uzuza seeds.
  3. Add another 500 ml of water and allow to boil for 15 mins.
  4. Add palm oil and chilli powder and allow to cook stirring periodically for 5 mins.
  5. Add Achi or another thickener and stir.
  6. Add Ogiri dissolved in 50 ml of water and stir.
  7. Add Oha leaves and allow to boil for no longer than 2–3 mins to avoid bitterness.
  8. Serve with any swallow meal (as per recipe).
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Recipe of The Market girl.

Folashade Olushanu is a wife, mother, friend, confidante, lover of God and so much more.

Cooking has been a source of release for her throughout her life, with the local market in her native Nigeria being her first experience in selling her dishes to expectant customers. Folashade has since opened restaurants, catered for significant occasions and most importantly satisfied the seemingly insatiable demands of seven growing children!

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