Lablab Prepared by the Experts

I have previously shared about how I learned to cook cowpea leaves and then tried out the same recipe using lablab.  Well, I had the opportunity to join some farmers in Apapai, who already know how to cook cowpea leaves and to "teach" them how to do the same with lablab.  Really, what I did was encourage them that they just needed to do the exact same thing that they do with cowpea leaves.  And so, since they used the knowledge they already had, the dish turned out perfectly!

Here are the piles of lablab leaves that they had harvested beforehand:

One of the ladies shelling peanuts for the sauce (and the pile of atigo leaves by her feet):

Adding the local soda ash:

Washing the leaves:

Adding the leaves to the boiling water:

And the final product!  The taste-testers said that they would not have known that it was lablab if no one had told them.  Proof that if you know what you're doing, lablab is a good substitute for cowpea leaves!