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Ombidi

Name: Ombidi
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Namibia
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 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 home side dish of northern Namibia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ombidi is a wild green (amaranth) that grows in northern Namibia in the rainy season; it's picked and boiled or dried to keep. It's simmered with tomato, onion, and a little oil and eaten with oshifima. In the dry lands it has long been treasured as a precious vegetable.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a field in northern Namibia during the rains, women pick wild greens and simmer them with tomatoes at home to serve with porridge.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Onion 1
Tomato 2
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 spinach and simmer 5 minutes until wilted.
Season with salt.

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