Divine women

Ingredients

3 bunches sukuma wiki or collard greens

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

I large onion slices

3 large tomatoes chopped

1/2 chicken  or beef chilli cube

1 clove garlic (minced)

Salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation

Fry onions until golden brown, add garlic stir for about 3 minutes then add chopped tomatoes and mix together. Wash vegetables and add to pot, mix well then add very little water just enough to steam let it cook for about 3 minutes then add chilli cube, salt and pepper to taste. Leave to cook for about 5 minutes don’t over cook.

Serve with Ugali and fried chicken.

Ingredients

4 cups water ( serves 4)

3-4 cups maizemeal, cornmeal or polenta flour

Butter or margarine (optional)

Preparation

Boil water add the flour gradually and stir like you would do with porridge. Keep stirring to avoid any lumps until t becomes stiff. Add butter (optional) and flip pot and the Ugali will immediately fall on a plate. Shape it in a round cake like form.  Some people like to make little balls especially for children. Serve with fried chicken and Sukuma wiki or a beef, chicken, goat or vegetable stew.

Ingredients

1 cup wheat flour

8 Chicken drum sticks or thighs

1/2  teaspoon curry powder, cummin, garam masala, dhana jeera and paprika

Vegetable oil (eneough to deep fry)

 Salt to taste

Mix all ingredients together in a small bowl. Heat oil on frying pan until you start to see a kind of mirage on the oil. Reduce heat. Wash chicken pieces , salt lightly and coat pieces with flour mixtures.  Fry until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and serve with Ugali and Sukuma wiki.                                                    

Ingredients

2 cups green grams

1cup water

1 large onion

1 can diced tomatoes

2 cloves garlic(minced)

1/2 cup coconut cream

1/2 teaspoon dhana jeera, garam masala, tumeric

2 tablespoons vegetable oil, margarine or ghee

Salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation

Soak green grams overnight. Boil green grams. When cooked mash it up until it looks like a stiff paste. Fry onions and garlic until golden brown. Add tomatoes and spices together and cook together on low heat. Add the mashed up green grams and mix well. Add I cup water and leave to cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Add coconut cream and leave to cook for 5 minutes.

Serve with chapati or Rice.

Chapati

Ingredients

4 cups wheat or brown flour
teaspoon oil
warmwater                                                                                                                                 Salt to taste

Preparation

 Mix dry ingredients. Add oil to mixtures then gradually add water to mixture and mix keep adding until you make a dough. Divide the dough into small balls, cover with a cloth and leave for about 30 min. Then roll out ball flat put some oil on it and roll it into a circle and leave for about 20 minutes or until you are ready to cook them.  Roll into circles then heat up a frying pan then add some oil to it place the chapatti on it and toss it add some oil on the dry side toss again and remove should take you about 3 min max for each chapatti. Serve with green grams sauce, beef , chicken or goat stew.

Ingredients
 
1 large onion (organic if possible)
6 large potatoes (you can also use 1 packet instant mashed potatoes)
½ a bag baby Spinach
2 cups of peas (you can use canned peas as well)
I cup corn (maize) Pepper and salt to taste
1 clove Garlic (optional)
Butter (optional)
 
Preparation
 
Wash potatoes thoroughly (you can peel) I usually do not peal my potatoes.
Boil the potatoes until they can be easily mashed (if you can pork your knife and it goes through to the bottom of the pot then they are cooked) and put in a bowl or serving dish
Boil the peas drain and put into a bowl.
Slice and fry the onions until golden brown, add the spinach salt and pepper (mashed garlic optional)
Remove and add to the bowl with potatoes and peas. Mash everything together.
My husband loves butter so I mash it all up with 2 teaspoons of butter.
 
Serve with meat, chicken or goat stew.

Pilau Rice

Ingredients
2 cups of basmati rice
4 cups water
3 cloves
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 cinnamon stick
½ teaspoon cumin seeds or powder
2 tablespoons ghee
½ teaspoon cardamoms powder (if fresh ground)
1 onion medium sized

Method
Fry the sliced onions and ghee until soft
Add all the herbs to the onions
Reduce heat
Add rice and mix together
Add salt to taste
Add water reduce heat and leave to cook

Garnish with fresh coriander and Serve with chicken or beef stew.