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Umbidvo Wetintsanga

Name: Umbidvo Wetintsanga
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Eswatini
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 60g Peanuts; 1/2 Onion; 1 Tomato; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1/2 tsp Salt; 100ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pumpkin leaves simmered with peanuts — an Eswatini greens dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Umbidvo is siSwati for a greens dish. In Eswatini, young pumpkin leaves or wild greens are chopped and simmered, with ground peanuts added for richness. An essential side to sishwala, it's a seasonal dish made straight from the field.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Eswatini field, young leaves are picked from pumpkin vines and simmered with peanuts in a kitchen pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Peanuts 60g
Onion 1/2
Tomato 1
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 100ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the peanuts and grind to a powder in a blender.
Roughly chop the spinach.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the chopped onion and tomato.
Add the spinach and water and simmer 5 minutes.
Mix in the ground peanuts and salt and simmer 2 minutes.

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