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Pondu

Name: Pondu
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: DR Congo
Ingredients: 3 bunches Spinach; 200g White Fish Fillet; 15g Dried shrimp; 1 Onion; 1 Green Onion (Long); 1 Green Bell Pepper; 2 cloves Garlic; 4 tbsp Palm oil; 1 tsp Salt; 500ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Pounded cassava leaves stewed with fish, onion, and palm oil — an everyday Congolese dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pondu is Lingala for cassava leaves and one of the most-eaten dishes in the DR Congo. The leaves are pounded with a pestle and stewed for a long time in palm oil with onion, garlic, scallions, green pepper, and smoked fish. It's eaten with fufu or rice.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Kinshasa courtyard, a woman pounds cassava leaves with a pestle and cooks a deep green stew in a big pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Spinach 3 bunches
White Fish Fillet 200g
Dried shrimp 15g
Onion 1
Green Onion (Long) 1
Green Bell Pepper 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Palm oil 4 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Blanch the spinach, squeeze dry, and chop very finely with a knife.
Simmer the water and greens in a pot for 20 minutes.
Add the chopped onion, leek, green pepper, garlic, and dried shrimp and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the palm oil and fish and simmer 15 minutes.
Season with salt.

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