MIYAN RIDI

Recipe for four servings

REQUIREMENTS

- 8 medium pieces beef
- 1 medium size smoked fish
- 6 large size fresh tomato
- 4 large size fresh pepper
- 1 large size onion
- 4 large size tatashe
- 1 small bunch yakwa leaves
- 1 medium bunch spinach
- 1½ cups beniseed or Ridi
- 2 cooking spoons vegetable oil
- 4 Maggi cubes
- 2½ litres Water
- Salt to taste. What you do

Wash the beef, season with few slices of onion and 1 Maggi Cube and salt.Stir and steam till juice dries up.Add 2 cups of water and continue to cook for another 15 minutes.

Wash and blend tomato, onion, pepper and tatashe.Pick wash and shred the Yakwa and spinach.

Wash the beniseed thoroughly preferably using the calabash method. Fry or roast the ridi. This method gives the ridi a better flavour. Grind the dried ridi.

Heat the oil in a pot and add the ground vegetables.Fry for about 10 minutes.

Add the meat and smoked fish, 1½ litres of water and the remaining Maggi Cubes. Stir.Mix the ground ridi with hot water from the pot. Pour into the pot. Add salt to taste.Cook for 10 minutes.

Stir and add the chopped Yakwa and spinach.Reduce the heat and stir. Simmer for 5 minutes and remove from heat.

Serve with tuo shinkafa.

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