Green leaf vegetables stew

Ingredients

• 1.2kg meat cut into bite sized pieces (any combination of red meat, fowl and/or fish can be used)

• 1kg, or more, mixed greens (any combination of cassava leaves, taro leaves, chard, sorrel leaves, kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, collard greens. spinach, Savoy cabbage or similar) [note: if using taro greens they must be parboiled and rinsed before they are added to the stew]

• 3 tomatoes, blanched, peeled and chopped

• 200g dried prawns

• 10 okra, chopped

• 1 onion, chopped

• 1 garlic clove, minced

• 2 hot chilli peppers, chopped

• Salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper, to taste

• Palm oil for cooking (or groundnut oil with paprika for colouring)