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Plasas

Name: Plasas
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Sierra Leone
Ingredients: 3 bunches Spinach; 300g Beef; 150g White Fish Fillet; 4 tbsp Palm oil; 2 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 Onion; 1 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; 1 tsp Salt; 500ml Water; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Finely chopped greens stewed with meat, fish, palm oil, and peanuts — Sierra Leone's national dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Plasas is the Krio word for stewed greens in Sierra Leone: cassava leaves, sweet potato leaves, spinach, and other greens are chopped fine and stewed with beef, smoked fish, palm oil, and peanut paste. Served over white rice, it's at the heart of the Sierra Leonean table.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in a Freetown home, deep green stewed greens are poured over a big platter of white rice as the family gathers around.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 3 bunches
Beef 300g
White Fish Fillet 150g
Palm oil 4 tbsp
Peanut butter 2 tbsp
Onion 1
Chili pepper 1
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 500ml
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into bite-size pieces and simmer 30 minutes with the onion, chili, stock powder, and water.
Blanch the spinach, squeeze dry, and chop finely.
Add the greens and palm oil to the pot and simmer 15 minutes.
Add the fish and peanut butter and simmer 10 minutes.
Season with salt and pour over rice.

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