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Isombe

Name: Isombe
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Rwanda
Ingredients: 3 bunches Spinach; 1 Eggplant; 3 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 Onion; 1 Green Bell Pepper; 2 tbsp Palm oil; 1 tsp Salt; 400ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Pounded cassava leaves stewed with eggplant and peanuts — Rwanda's signature dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Isombe is Rwanda's signature dish: pounded cassava leaves are slowly stewed with eggplant, spinach, onion, and peanut paste. Palm oil or dried fish is sometimes added. It's eaten with rice, boiled bananas, or tubers, an everyday taste of Rwandan homes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a hilltop village home in Rwanda, deep green stewed greens simmer in a pot and are set before the family with a plate of boiled bananas.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 3 bunches
Eggplant 1
Peanut butter 3 tbsp
Onion 1
Green Bell Pepper 1
Palm oil 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 400ml

👩‍🍳 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 diced eggplant, onion, and green pepper and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the palm oil and peanut butter and simmer 10 minutes.
Season with salt.

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