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Collard greens(sukuma wiki) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Collard greens(sukuma wiki) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Sukuma wiki is an East African dish made with collard greens, known as sukuma, cooked with onions and spices. It is often served and eaten with ugali (made from maize flour). In Tanzania, Kenya and many parts of East Africa, colewort are more commonly known by their Swahili name, sukuma. (Redirected from Collard greens).
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have collard greens(sukuma wiki) using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Collard greens(sukuma wiki):
- Get Sukuma wiki
- Take 1 onion thinly sliced
- Get 2 tomatoes
- Prepare 2 TBS oil
- Prepare To taste salt
- Prepare 2 royco cubes
Sukuma wiki is the Swahili name for collard greens which translates to "push/stretch the week". In East Africa they use collards to stretch out a meal so it lasts the whole week, so as you can imagine this dish is very economical. A few of my favorite African-inspired dishes are North African Spiced. The english name for Sukuma Wiki is Collard Greens.
Instructions to make Collard greens(sukuma wiki):
- Heat oil in a sufuria. Add onions and fry till browned
- Add chopped tomatoes and cook till tender. Season with salt and cubes. Mix well
- Add sukuma and fry mixing constantly for about five minutes
- Serve hot with ugali
It is a form of a cabbage where green leaves do not form a head. Closer to the wild cabbage, than Sukuma Wiki is rich in beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, roughage, iron and calcium. It is mostly fried alone or with a mixture. Sukuma wiki means "stretch the week" as this dish evolved as a way to use up leftover meats, and stretch the leftovers to last a whole week. Collard greens are widely used in Africa as the leafy green vegetable of choice for sukuma wiki, but kale, and cassava leaves can also be used.
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