Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, spaghetti and sukuma wiki. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Spaghetti and sukuma wiki is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Spaghetti and sukuma wiki is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have spaghetti and sukuma wiki using 5 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti and sukuma wiki:
- Get 1 handful sukuma
- Take 500 g spaghetti
- Take 3 1/2 cups water
- Take 3 tomatoes
- Take 1 onion
The secret is in not over cooking it. Cook the onion with little oil in a suitable pan/pot until soft or translucent then add the sukuma and tomatoes and stir. The Swahili translation of sukuma wiki approximates to "push the week." In Kenya if you have any edible greens in your garden you will not go hungry. This recipe provides the opportunity to push a bit of Kenya onto your dining. "Sukuma wiki" is a Swahili phrase meaning, depending on how you translate it, "week-pusher," "push the week," or "stretch the week." When I was in Kenya two years ago, I saw kale and collard greens growing in the dusty soil of nearly every home.
Instructions to make Spaghetti and sukuma wiki:
- Chop the onions and tomatoes to a considerable size.
- Begin by cooking the onions till they nearly turn brown. Add the tomatoes.
- Make sure the tomatoes are squashed well.
- After that add water plus the spaghetti..
- With a good amount of heat wait for the water to reduce bt not that much.
- Leave a considerable amount as the soup.
- For the greens, fry them with considerable oil.
- Ready to serve.
Green frilly leaves dotted any patch of land that had. Since sukuma wiki and spinach are in the same family, they require the same environmental conditions to grow; they take a similar amount of time to mature, in addition to being attacked by Sukuma and spinach seeds have to be grown in a nursery for four weeks before being transplanted to the garden. Sukuma wiki is a typical Kenyan dish; simple with few ingredients and packed full of nutrients. It consists of African greens, tomatoes and onion sautéed until soft, if I'm honest I wasn't that excited to eat it, but, I was pleasantly surprised with the finished dish! Sukuma wiki — Swahili for "stretch the week" — is a ubiquitous dish in East African.
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