Sadza
Sadza in Shona (isitshwala in isiNdebele, pap in South Africa, or nsima in the Chichewa language of Malawi) is a cooked corn meal that is the staple food in Zimbabwe and other parts of southern and eastern Africa. This food is cooked widely in other countries of the region.
Sadza in appearance is a thickened porridge. A thinner form of sadza, "porridge", is cooked with peanut butter or margarine and eaten in the mornings occasionally. The most common form of sadza is made with white maize (Mealie-Meal). This maize meal is referred to as hupfu in Shona or impuphu in Ndebele. Despite the fact that maize is actually an imported food crop to Zimbabwe (circa 1890), it has become the chief source of carbohydrate and the most popular meal for indigenous people. Locals either purchase the meal in retail outlets or produce it in a grinding mill from their own maize.
Zimbabweans prefer white maize meal. During times of famine or hardship they resort to eating yellow maize meal, which is sometimes called "Kenya," because it was once imported from that nation.
Before the introduction of maize, sadza was made from millet flour instead.
The sadza is usually served in a communal bowl or separate plates and is taken with the right hand occasionally, rolled into a ball, and dipped into meat, sauce/gravy, lacto/sour milk or stewed vegetables etc.
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[edit] Notable foods eaten with sadza
Meat is known as Nyama in Zimbabwe.
- Red meat (includes beef, mutton, goat, and game meat)
- White meat (includes huku or inkukhu - chicken meat, hove - Fish)
- Spring greens (known as imibhida in the Ndebele Language, muriwo in the Shona Language)
- Sugar Beans (known as indumba in Ndebele, nyemba Shona)
- Cabbage
- Kapenta
- Derere Delele - okra
- Mopane worms/madora/amacimbi (edible moth caterpillar)
- Soured milk natural yogurt (known as amasi in Ndebele or Nguni Languages in South Africa, mukaka wakakora in Shona, or lacto)
- Soya Chunks
- Cleome gynandra(ulude in Ndebele)~/nyevhe in shona
- Pumpkin leaves known as Muboora in shona or ibhokola in Ndebele
- Fish (inhlanzi in Ndebele)
- Cow hoof (amanqgina, mazondo)
- Oxtail
- Soups and stews
- Other food stuffs include intestine (Offal- ezangaphakathi (includes amathumbu, amaphaphu, isibindi,utwane, ulusu, umbendeni) in Ndebele) known as matumbu, (sun dried vegetables) known as uMfushwa/Mufushawa, and many more
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[edit] In literature
- Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga, 1988. Ayebia Clark Publishing 2004
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