Palaver Sauce

Name: Palaver Sauce
Yield: 4 to 6 Servings
Ingredients: Coarsely ground red pepper flakes; 3 cups thinly sliced onions; 2 cups palm oil or salad oil; 2 cans (7 ounces each) tuna; 1 cup Beef Stock or water; 3 tomatoes, peeled and chopped; 2 pounds spinach, cooked, drained and chopped, or 2 packages (10 ounces each) frozen chopped spinach; ¼ pound salt beef, soaked overnight in water to cover, and drained (dried beef may be substituted); ¼ pound salt cod, soaked overnight in water to cover, and drained

Spinach Stew

Preparation info

4 to 6
Servings

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

About

Ingredients

2 cups palm oil or salad oil
3 cups thinly sliced onions
¼

Starter
Side dish
Stew
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the oil in a saucepan and add the onions. Cook until onions are wilted. Add the salt cod and beef. Add the spinach, tomatoes and stock and simmer for forty-five minutes, stirring occasionally.
Ten minutes before the stew is done, add the tuna. Sprinkle with red pepper flakes to taste just before serving.