Zara Cooks in Cameroon

Ingredients:

Greens (not bitter) Onion Tomato Garlic

Ginger Piment Maggi cubes (or other MSG/flavor source) Oil

Chop greens into fine pieces (hold in a bundle and cut across in small sections - on a cutting board if you're American, or just in your hand against your index finger if you're Cameroonian). Boil until tender. Drain.

Chop onion, tomato, garlic, ginger and piment finely. Fry in lots of oil with plenty of Maggi. Add in drained greens, mix thoroughly and fry a little more.

Throw in some meat or fish chunks if you've got them lying around.

I made njama-njama for the first time the other day after Jane gave me a bunch of non-bitter greens. Yum! It is one of my favorite Cameroonian foods, and maybe the only time you eat vegetables as a dish.