I got this recipe from my friend Triphena who said it was a traditional South African recipe that her mum often used to cook. I modified the original with some spices and onion and wrote it up quite some time ago as spicy spinach with peanuts. That was a great recipe and still quite simple, but I recently had reason to attempt throwing a spinach dish together in a few minutes, being half way through cooking a bunch of other stuff when I realised I had forgotten to do something with the spinach, and I decided to do Triphena's recipe, just the way she gave it to me. I was impressed. It only took a couple of minutes and tasted fantastic.
So, here it is. No quantities given. Use what you've got and don't spend much time on any of the preparation stages.
Ingredients
A large bunch of spinach
A handful of peanuts
Salt
Wash the spinach and chop it if you feel it requires chopping (for speed, I would just throw it straight in the pan without chopping). Jam the spinach into a smallish pan (with a little salt, if your peanuts are not already salted) and put the lid on. Stick it on the cooker at a fairly high heat and when it starts steaming a few seconds later, turn the heat down to medium. That gives you three or four minutes to roughly chop or crush some roasted peanuts. Even if you have to roast them yourself, you'll still have time. Just swirl them about in a very hot frying pan without oil for a minute.
After the spinach has been going for three or four minutes remove it from the heat and stir in the chopped peanuts. Ready to serve.
You can serve this dish to accompany to an assortment of other dishes (see my 'thalis' page) but it will also go very well served simply with steamed rice.