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Malakwang

Name: Malakwang
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Uganda
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 5 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 Tomato; 1/2 Onion; 2 tbsp Lemon juice; 1/2 tsp Salt; 200ml Water; 2 Sweet potato

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sour leafy greens simmered in peanut paste — a traditional dish of the Acholi of northern Uganda.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Malakwang is a traditional dish of the Acholi people of northern Uganda: sour roselle (a kind of hibiscus) leaves are stewed with peanut paste. Its unique flavor combines tartness and peanut richness, and it's eaten with sweet potatoes or kalo. For northerners it's the nostalgic taste of home.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At midday in a northern Ugandan village, in front of a thatched hut, a woman stirs green leaves and peanut sauce in a pot over charcoal.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Peanut butter 5 tbsp
Tomato 1
Onion 1/2
Lemon juice 2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 200ml
Sweet potato 2

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the sweet potatoes in their skins.
Roughly chop the spinach and simmer 5 minutes with water and the chopped onion and tomato.
Dissolve the peanut butter in a little of the liquid and add.
Simmer on low for 10 minutes and season with lemon juice and salt.
Serve with the boiled sweet potatoes.

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