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Slippery Cabbage in Coconut Milk

Name: Slippery Cabbage in Coconut Milk
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Solomon Islands
Ingredients: 1 bunch Molokhia; 1 bunch Spinach; 200ml Coconut milk; 1/2 Onion; 1/2 tsp Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Slippery greens simmered in coconut milk — the everyday greens dish of the Solomon Islands.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Slippery cabbage is a hibiscus-family green, named for the sliminess it develops when cooked. It's grown in almost every family garden in the Solomon Islands, simmered in coconut milk, and eaten almost daily with root vegetables and fish.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a village garden in the Solomon Islands, glossy leaves are picked and simmered with coconut milk in a kitchen pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Molokhia 1 bunch
Spinach 1 bunch
Coconut milk 200ml
Onion 1/2
Salt 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Pick the molokhia leaves and roughly chop together with the spinach.
Warm the coconut milk and sliced onion in a pot.
Add the greens, cover, and simmer 5 minutes.
Stir everything together.
Season with salt.

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