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Kisamvu

Name: Kisamvu
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Tanzania
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 400ml Coconut milk; 1 Onion; 2 cloves Garlic; 40g Peanuts; 1 Tomato; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Side Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pounded cassava leaves stewed in coconut milk — Tanzania's traditional braised greens.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kisamvu is a traditional Tanzanian dish of pounded young cassava leaves stewed for a long time with coconut milk, onion, peanuts, and more. Raw cassava leaves are toxic, so thorough cooking is essential. It's served as a side to ugali or rice, with fish dishes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a seaside village, women pound cassava leaves in a mortar and stew them slowly with coconut milk in a big pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Coconut milk 400ml
Onion 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Peanuts 40g
Tomato 1
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop or pound the spinach.
Crush the peanuts finely.
Heat oil in a pot and sauté the onion, garlic, and chopped tomato.
Add the spinach and stir-fry, then add the coconut milk and peanuts.
Simmer on low for 15 minutes (at least 1 hour if using cassava leaves).
Season with salt.

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