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Moroho

Name: Moroho
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lesotho
Ingredients: 1/4 Cabbage; 1 bunch Spinach; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cabbage or spinach braised with onion — Lesotho's greens side.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Moroho means greens in Sesotho and is the essential side to papa in Lesotho. Cabbage, spinach, or wild greens are braised with onion and tomato. Made with vegetables from the home garden, it's cooked almost every day.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Lesotho mountain village garden, a cabbage is cut, braised with onions in a kitchen pot, and served beside papa.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cabbage 1/4
Spinach 1 bunch
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Shred the cabbage and roughly chop the spinach.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the sliced onion.
Add the chopped tomato and sauté 3 minutes.
Add the cabbage and spinach, cover, and steam-braise 5 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.

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