Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Peanut greens
Greens in a loosened peanut-tomato sauce. Collards if you have them.
The sheet · 4 as a side · 25 min
easyWhy tonight. Greens in a loosened peanut-tomato sauce. Collards if you have them.
What it needs
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- kale
- peanut butter
- tomato
- onion
- garlic
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.
Method
- Onion and garlic soft in oil, tomato in and cooked right down.
- Peanut butter let down with a ladle of hot water into a smooth sauce before it goes near the pot. Added straight from the jar it seizes into lumps.
- Greens in, shredded thin, and simmered twenty minutes until they are properly soft.
- Salt hard and finish with lemon. Peanut sauces are rich and go flat fast without acid.
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- Produce prepHow To Mince GarlicAmerica's Test KitchenSmashing and mincing a clove down to something that cooks evenly instead of burning in pieces.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Knife skillsHow To Dice OnionsAmerica's Test KitchenWalks through the claw grip and the two cuts that turn a whole onion into an even dice.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Produce prepThe Best Way to Mince Garlic | Serious Eats At HomeSerious EatsCompares the knife methods for garlic, including when to take it all the way to paste.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- kale
- Tough enough to need help.
- peanut butter
- Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
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