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Kizaka

Name: Kizaka
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Angola
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 3 tbsp Peanut butter; 2 tbsp Palm oil; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Tomato; 1 tsp Salt; 200ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pounded cassava leaves stewed with peanuts and palm oil — Angola's greens dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kizaka is an Angolan dish of pounded, stewed cassava leaves, enriched with peanut paste or palm oil. Dried fish is sometimes added. Widely known across Central Africa, in Angola it's served alongside funge and beans.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Angolan village kitchen, deep green stewed greens simmer in a pot as a woman with a pestle stirs in peanut paste to finish.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Peanut butter 3 tbsp
Palm oil 2 tbsp
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Tomato 1
Salt 1 tsp
Water 200ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Blanch the spinach, squeeze dry, and chop finely.
Heat the palm oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and garlic.
Add the chopped tomato and sauté.
Add the spinach and water and simmer 10 minutes.
Stir in the peanut butter, season with salt, and simmer 10 minutes.

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