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Ifisashi

Name: Ifisashi
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Zambia
Ingredients: 2 bunches Spinach; 4 tbsp Peanut butter; 2 Tomato; 1 Onion; 1/2 tsp Salt; 200ml Water

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Greens simmered in peanut paste — Zambia's signature relish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ifisashi is a Bemba word for greens cooked in peanut paste. Pumpkin leaves, sweet potato leaves, spinach, and other greens are chopped, simmered with tomato and onion, and finished creamy with ground peanuts. Eaten with nshima, it's a staple of Zambian homes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Zambian kitchen, green leaves stew in peanut paste and are served beside white paste.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 2 bunches
Peanut butter 4 tbsp
Tomato 2
Onion 1
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 200ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Roughly chop the spinach.
Simmer the water, chopped tomato, and onion in a pot for 5 minutes.
Stir in the peanut butter.
Add the greens and simmer 10 minutes, stirring.
Season with salt.

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