A suggested recipe of pumpkin leaves from either frozen or fresh

Pumpkin Leaves Recipe:

Ingredients

Pumpkin leaves 500g
Milk or water (100ml)
½ teaspoon of salt

¼ of a level teaspoon of Bicarbonate of soda

100 g chopped tomatoes

75ml double or single cream
20 ml cooking oil or I tablespoon of margarine/butter

You can also use about two tablespoons of peanuts butter instead of cream.

Method

Wash the leaves thoroughly, preferably under a running tap then peel away the fibrous part of the leaf veins. Cut the leaves into relatively small pieces. (If you're cooking from frozen skip this process)

Put chopped tomatoes, cooking oil, fresh cream into pot. You might need to add about 100 ml of either water or fresh milk. Add salt and soda, then the pumpkin leaves. Allow to boil gently for about ten to fifteen minutes, stirring in between. The sauce should be smooth and thick.
Serve the vegetables hot as a relish with nsima/sadza/isitshwala, thick porridge made of maize meal, rice or meat.