Vegan Plantain Porridge (Nigerian - Inspired) - Eat with Afia

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp of red palm oil
• 1 cup dried mushrooms (I used shiitake)
• 2 large king oyster mushrooms chopped ***
• 4 small tomatoes
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1/2 scotch bonnet pepper (omit for non-spicy flavour)
• 1 large onion (1/2 finely diced, 1/2 roughly chopped)
• 1 thumb of ginger
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 1.5 tsp of onion and garlic powder
• 2 tsp of curry powder
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp veggie bouillon
• 3 grains of selim (optional)
• 1/2 tsp dawa dawa (optional)
• salt
• 1/2 block of extra firm tofu cut into small cubes (175g of tofu)
• 2 medium ripe plantains (yellow with black spots chopped into small cubes)
• 2 large handfuls of spinach