Recipe: At Home Cooked Managu

Recipe: At Home Cooked Managu Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Cooked Managu. This meal is best served in Branch-meal between breakfast and lunch Mulunga Alukwe. Lunch is great whenever you have traditional vegetables. The African Nightshade, also locally known as Managu, is a popular vegetable in Eastern Africa.

The African Nightshade is an indigenous vegetable.

Shortly after mix well and serve hot with ugali.

Managu (leaves of solanum psedocapsicum) is known as Osuga by the Luo community..

You can have Cooked Managu using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cooked Managu

1. It’s of managu.

2. Prepare of Cooking oil.

3. It’s of tomatoes.

4. You need of onion.

5. Prepare of salt.

It can be bitter in taste, and so to reduce the bitterness, allow the cooked vegetable to rest for a few days before serving or add maziwa lala (fermented milk) or cream.

Place the plantains and water in a saucepan.

Ecological Requirements for growing African Nightshade.

The different varieties of Managu grow well in different regions.

Cooked Managu step by step

1. Remove the hard fibre of the managu..

2. Wash the keenly without removing the soft fibre. Then boil..

3. Do not overcook coz they are better green.

4. Fry onions, then add tomatoes.

5. Add the managu and salt..

6. Cover to cook for 5 minutes.

7. Remove from heat and serve. You can add milk if you prefer..

African nightshades are several species of plants in the section Solanum of the genus Solanum, that are commonly consumed as leafy vegetables and herbs.

African nightshades are grown in both high and lowland areas in West and East Africa, particularly in Nigeria and Cameroon.

There is a large variation in diversity of the African nightshades, which have many nutritional and medicinal benefits.

Managu is a leafy green vegetable common throughout Kenya and nearby countries.

The leaves are usually cooked with other vegetables.