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Morogo

Name: Morogo
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Chili pepper

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Wild greens simmered with tomato and onion — a Botswana side dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Morogo is the general southern African name for wild greens; in Botswana, amaranth, pumpkin leaves, bean leaves, and more are picked and cooked. They're simmered with tomato and onion and eaten with seswaa or bogobe. Greens picked in the rainy season are dried so they can be eaten in the dry season too.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a field during Botswana's rainy season, women pick greens and simmer them with tomatoes in a pot at home to serve with porridge.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Chili pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Roughly chop the spinach.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the sliced onion.
Add the chopped tomato and chili and cook until it breaks down.
Add the greens and simmer 5 minutes.
Season with salt.

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