Spinach Stew
Chef: Diane From: Ghana Serves: 4
Time: 15 minutes Cooking: 30 minutes
Ingredients
200g fresh spinach, chopped (or 8 cubes of frozen spinach)
1 vegetable stock cube
3 fresh tomatoes or 1 tin of tomatoes
1 small onion
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dry ginger
1 tablespoon sunflower oil
Diane is one of our food ambassadors. She is from Ghana and she shared this recipe for Ghanaian spinach stew with us recently. As a child this was her favourite dish. “I actually learnt it from my granmum who I called “MaMa.” When I went to her for holidays as a very fussy toddler I wouldn’t eat anything she made so one day she took me to her farm and I picked the spinach and we sang and danced like the leaves came home and she prepared it and served it with green boiled plantains and I eat so much according to her I threw up and the rest is history.”
Method
Blend the tomatoes and onion together.
Heat a large frying pan and add 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil.
Add the blended tomatoes and onion, stir and leave to simmer for five minutes.
Add 1 teaspoon of garlic powder and 1 teaspoon of ginger and stir. Add your vegetable stock, stir and leave to simmer for 10 minutes.
If it starts to stick at the bottom add a little water.
Add your chopped or frozen spinach and leave for five minutes.
Taste and check that the spinach is cooked through.
Serve with rice or boiled sweet plantains.