{"id":49488,"date":"2021-11-19T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T12:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=49488"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:10:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:10:05","slug":"dels-imifino-bhaji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/blogs\/49488\/dels-imifino-bhaji\/","title":{"rendered":"Del’s Imifino\/Bhaji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recipes for a Healthy Africa is a collaborative project organised by Greenpeace Volunteers, with contributions from Greenpeace Africa supporters. This project challenges us to cook with more plant-based products, including indigenous fruits and vegetables. Interested in submitting your own recipe? We\u2019d love to include it in our cookbook!<\/p>\n\n

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Imifino is a traditional KwaZulu Natal dish usually served with phuthu (ground maize meal, another traditional Zulu food). Imifino is a isiZulu collective name given describing most green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and the various species of amaranth.<\/p>\n\n

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Bhaji is a South African Indian collective name similarly given describing most green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and the various species of amaranth.<\/p>\n\n

For this recipe the selected Imifino\/Bhaji is New Zealand spinach, which can be foraged ~ as it’s quite a widespread plant found growing in Durban. Harvest sustainably ~ never pull or uproot a plant. Instead pick individual leaves and tips.”<\/p>\n\n

A recipe by<\/strong>
Delwyn Pillay<\/p>\n\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n
  • Cooking oil<\/li>
  • Onion<\/li>
  • Garlic<\/li>
  • Sweet potato<\/li>
  • New Zealand spinach (or any type of spinach or suitable green leafy vegetable)<\/li>
  • Dried red chili (Optional)<\/li>
  • Salt<\/li><\/ul>\n\n

    Method<\/h2>\n\n

    1. Add oil to pan on low heat until the oil is hot (but not smoking). <\/p>\n\n

    2. Add in the chopped onion, then the garlic to soften up.  <\/p>\n\n

    3. Add the sweet potatoes. Fry for about 15mins or until the sweet potatoes soften up. Continuously stir to avoid burning\/sticking.<\/p>\n\n

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    4. Add the New Zealand spinach with the dried red chilli and a pinch of salt <\/p>\n\n

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    5. Once the spinach has wilted down, mix them up with the onion and garlic. <\/p>\n\n

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    6. Add a little water (between 0.2ml – 0.4ml). Cover the pan with a lid and let cook on low heat for about 15mins.<\/p>\n\n

    Serve and enjoy with brown bread or roti (Indian flat bread) or with phuthu (ground maize meal).<\/p>\n\n

    About the cook<\/h2>\n\n
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    Delwyn is a well known Greenpeace Africa volunteer & activist based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is a keen seed banker, meaning he saves seeds for future planting, in particular heritage seeds. These are seeds of cultural significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Imifino is a traditional KwaZulu Natal dish usually served with phuthu (ground maize meal, another traditional Zulu food). Imifino is a isiZulu collective name given describing most green leafy vegetables, such as spinach and the various species of amaranth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":49521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[46],"p4-page-type":[48],"class_list":["post-49488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-greenpeaceafrica","p4-page-type-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49552,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49488\/revisions\/49552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49488"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=49488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}