How to Cook Tasty Sukuma wiki (kales)

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How to Cook Tasty Sukuma wiki (kales) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Sukuma wiki (kales). Sukuma wiki is an East African dish made with collard greens, known as sukuma, cooked with onions and spices. It is often served and eaten with ugali (made from maize flour). In Tanzania, Kenya and many parts of East Africa, colewort are more commonly known by their Swahili name, sukuma, and are often referred to as collard greens.

The classic side dish for this meal — and indeed, nearly any meal throughout much of eastern Africa — is sukuma wiki, braised greens with a very apt meaning to their name!

Do you know what sukuma wiki means?

A meal in Kenya, with ugali, chapati, a meat stew.

You can have Sukuma wiki (kales) using 5 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sukuma wiki (kales)

  1. Prepare of sukuma wiki (kales) shredded.

  2. Prepare of cooking oil.

  3. You need of salt.

  4. Prepare of tomatoes chopped.

  5. Prepare of onion chopped.

Sukuma wiki can also be dried in a shade, crushed and kept or specially dried in a clay pot for use a later date by households.

Here's How to Grow Delicious Sukuma wiki/ Kale in the Farm.

To grow kale, you will need seedlings.

Sukuma wiki can be cut in different ways.

Sukuma wiki (kales) step by step

  1. Fry onions till golden brown.

  2. Ads tomatoes steam till they form a paste.

  3. Add kales, mix well, steam for 3-5minutes. Ready to serve.

This is shredded sukuma wiki aka kale.

Sukuma wiki is usually shredded when it is being cooked on its own as a base vegetable.

Chopped sukuma wiki worked best when it is being mixed with other food items e.g. beef or chicken when it is being cooked.

Sukuma Wiki (African Braised Kale) Sukuma Wiki translates to "stretch the week" in Swahili, meaning to make a small garden harvest feed a whole family for a whole week.

Experience the value of community and school gardens by encouraging the students use their homegrown leafy greens for the base of this dish. "Sukuma wiki" a Kiswahili name for kales is one of the most nutritious vegetable.