Zimbabwe’s Main Dish/Relish🇿🇼| How to Prepare COVO /RAPE/ MURIWO (The Green Vegetables)

covo leaves

🥗Healthier: spinach

💰Cheaper: kale

Spinach is widely available and offers similar nutritional benefits.

vegetable oil

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Olive oil provides healthier fats while canola is often less expensive.

Wash your cutting board and knife thoroughly.

Wash the covo leaves (Maro) leaf by leaf.

Group the leaves, separating the dead leaves from the good ones.

Cut the stems off the leaves and set them aside.

Arrange the leaves by size, placing bigger leaves at the back and smaller ones in the middle for easy cutting.

Cut the leaves into small pieces, as small as you can, similar to cutting cabbage.

After cutting, rinse the leaves again to ensure they are clean.

Pack the cut leaves into plastic bags for freezing.

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