Recipe: Tasty Ugali sukuma

Ugali sukuma. According to Hiliary Kimuyu of Nairobi News, "[Uguali is] made from cornmeal that is added to boiling water and heated until it turns into a dense block of cornmeal paste, it is undeniably Kenya's staple.[Sukuma wiki is] collard greens or kales. See recipes for Ugali,fried sukuma (kales) and eggs too. Ugali is eaten with sukuma wiki and does not require any silverware.

Sukuma wiki in Kiswahili actually means 'push the week'. These vegetables have this name because they help households reach the end of. the week on a very low budget, hence their popularity especially in poor households. The sukuma wiki is fried in onions, tomatoes, and add whatever spice you feel like. You can cook Ugali sukuma using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ugali sukuma

1. Prepare of Maize flour.
2. Prepare of sukuma wiki.
3. Prepare of spinach.
4. You need of Salt.
5. You need of Oil for frying.
6. You need of tomatoes.
7. You need of Water.

Each dish comes with either ugali or chapati, and you can order sukuma wiki as well. The prices are in Kenyan shillings. Very refreshing after cold and wintry weather back home! Ugali was a perfect dish to serve alongside the sukuma wiki to create a filling and nutritious meal.

Ugali sukuma step by step

1. Fry your onion, add your tomatoes and once cooked add your cut spinach and sukuma wiki. Stir them well untill for 2 minutes. Add salt and cover for 5 minutes. Set aside once ready..
2. For the ugali. Boil 2 cups of water, keep adding your maize four untill it of thick paste..
3. Keep stirring the ugali untill you are satisfied..
4. Serve and enjoy..

The texture of the cooked ugali is smooth and dumpling like with very little flavor. It's perfect to scoop up some sukuma wiki to add variety to the texture, and a small amount goes a long way. Yesterday Cambria shared a family recipe for African peanut stew, a celebratory dish made with beef, spices, and rich peanut butter. 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?