Hello, and Jambo. This is Zuhra Lucie fromNairobi, Kenya ,and am back in the kitchen with another traditional food from the western and Nyanza region of Kenya called "SAGETI"
Before sharing about this Organic dish with you, I would like to thank all of you, My local guides familia, all of whom I know by names and those that have come and supported me by liking and commenting on my post since the very beginning when I joined the local guides forum. Am much grateful for your love and continued support through guiding and also learning from every post I come across. At least I get an idea of what to share next. Also, have enough courage to face the outside world with what I have learned and also teach those that are willing to learn by me. And by that, I call local guides to connect my second family.
So today I wanna share this great recipe for this vegetable called sageti in my local language Swahili.
Sageti is well known as one of the loved and healthy vegetables from the "Abagusii “Kisii” tribe in The Nyanza province of Kenya and me from the western part of Kenya, I have grown up eating sageti.
I am specifying this because most of the people in Nairobi selling and growing this vegetable are from those two provinces and particularly mostly people from “Kisii.” So at my house, so many people from “Kisii” are neighbors, and by that, I got some seedlings and threw them in my kitchen garden. Among other healthier vegetables I have in my garden, Sageti is one of them.
I don’t know from which species sageti is, all I know is its healthy vegetables. I tried searching for its English name but I couldn’t find it. That’s why I decided to bring it here to know those who have come across it.
This vegetable is healthy but tastes bitter. And by tasting it you will feel this characteristic.
So during this Holy month of Ramadan, I decided to cook it for my family. I got it from Shamba and this is how to prepare it.
So, Welcome on board
From Garden Procedure:
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Pluck them as much as you can because, after a long process of preparation, the vegetables shrink, and then the quantity reduces. and my veggies will be for 3 servings.
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Remove the unwanted stalks or sticks that may be hard to chew because of maturity.
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Place them on a clean surface and remove again the small particles and insects as demonstrated in the video below.
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Wash them with clean and many waters to completely remove the soil particles, especially when it’s direct from the garden, repeat the washing 3-4 times.
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Then boil like 1 liter of water if you have a pressure source pan then good for you if not use whatever you have. When your water boils up then put in your veggies to boil for like 30 minutes.
P.s The soup after boiling is also nice to drink for all?.
Cooking Stew:
Now prepare some onions, tomatoes, cooking oil, for the stew. Fry your onions, add tomatoes salt to taste add in your vegetable minus the soup and give it 15min to of cooking again, after all this cook still the bitterness is there and that what makes it sweet and tasty, if you have milk or coconut milk, or any spices of your choice add in stir and then cook for five minutes and your page will be ready to serve.
Still remember you can as well add your ingredients without making stew, just cut the onions, tomatoes, salt, and your milk, or coconut milk and mix in the boiled vegetables without adding cooking oil and give it sometimes to cook until ready to serve.
Sageti served with Rice, and chicken.
I have grown up eating this vegetable and I am strong and healthy. Of course, everybody is healthy but there’s some uniqueness with the people growing up from rural areas who are used to eating natural and organic food. And being one of them, you are super fit and have strong masculinity.
So my question is have you ever seen, tasted, or come across these vegetables, do they exist in your country or places if not do you wanna taste them and have an idea of what I have mentioned above?
Let me know in the comments below. As we share more healthy and natural foods from our cultures.
Gracias.
Please check this video to know how I made.