EFO VEGETABLE STEW

I like vegetable soup because it is so easy to make and it is very similar to our Hungarian "lecso" which is a tomato based dish. The only difference is the way to cook it.

My Nigerian husband taught me to precook the meat in water with onion and all the spices and put it later to the sauce. The sauce for this dish is fried onion with tomatoes and chilli and some spices. Once its fried very well in palm oil I pour the meat inside the stew and cook it a bit more. I normally add the shredded greens and pal oil in the last 10 minutes but this can differ depending on who's cooking.

Ingredients:

1 bunch greens (collard greens, bitterleaf, sweet potato greens, cassava greens, spinach, spring greens etc),

shredded 450g fresh tomatoes chopped

2 Magi (or stock) cubes

3 hot (eg Scotch bonnet) chillies pounded to a paste 

1/2 onion, chopped 

6 tbsp of palm oil (or groundnut oil coloured with paprika)

1 large onion, chopped 

Salt and black pepper, to taste 

450g dry smoked fish 

2 tbsp ground crayfish or prawns (optional) 

bell pepper(s) (optional)

Calorie content 185 kcal / serving