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Ndiwo

Name: Ndiwo
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Malawi
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 60g (unsalted) Peanuts; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 1 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; 150ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Greens simmered with tomato and ground peanuts — a Malawian relish for nsima.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ndiwo is the Malawian word for the relish eaten with nsima, and the classic version is greens simmered with tomato, onion, and ground peanuts. Pumpkin leaves, bean leaves, or spinach are used. Nsima is rolled by hand and used to scoop up the ndiwo.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dinner in a Malawian home, a bowl of stewed greens sits beside a plate of white porridge as the family eats by hand.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Peanuts 60g (unsalted)
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Vegetable oil 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 150ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the peanuts and grind to a powder.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the onion and tomato.
Add the roughly chopped greens and water and simmer 5 minutes.
Mix in the ground peanuts.
Season with salt and simmer 5 minutes.

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