Red Spinach - Super Food
In Nigeria, we are all aware of the amaranth greens, locally called tete . Green tete is the most common one, found/sold in every vegetable market and loosely referred to as greens or spinach. Read more about Amaranth Greens here . The other day, I went to get some fresh seafood at the Under-bridge Fish Market, just off Ozumba Mbadiwe road in Victoria Island Lagos, and I was delighted to see red spinach on display. But before actually seeing and cooking with them, I had read a lot about them online in the past. I discovered that they are one of the super foods coming out of Africa! So finally, I was able to purchase some and experiment with them. I blanched them and cooked them just like the more familiar green variety and I was really pleased with eating them. They tasted just the same, that you could not tell the different in taste and flavour, other than, the red variety was a tad more earthy. So why Red Spinach.....? My first response is why not...? They are available and they...