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Sambusa

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Sambusa

Meat pie, savory pastry filled with meat, vegetables, potatoes, lentils

Shatta

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Shatta

Spicy chili paste

Thamool

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Thamool

Crisp, biscuit-like bread, serve with tea, soup, cheese

Torshi

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Torshi

Mixed pickled vegetables, carrots, cucumbers, cauliflower, radishes, eggplant

Toum

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Toum

A pungent garlic and lemon sauce, dip or condiment, served with grilled meat, shawarma, falafel, kebabs, pasta, dumplings

Zaatar

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Zaatar

A blend of spices and herbs, commonly includes thyme and sesame seeds, oregano, marjoram, sage, sumac, salt, used in many dishes, dips, on bread, vegetables

Zhoum

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Zhoum

Yogurt or buttermilk sauce, serve with aseed

Zhug

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Zhug

Spicy chili sauce with cilantro, herbs, chili peppers and spices, mix in yogurt, serve with rice, fish, meat, bread

Rice porridge

Rice porridge

Vitumbua

Vitumbua

Coconut rice pancakes

Amarula

Amarula

Marula fruit liqueur

Baobab fruit juice

Baobab fruit juice

Baobab White

Baobab White

Castle beer

Castle beer

Chibuku

Chibuku

Beer made from maize, sorghum and millet

Chibwantu

Chibwantu

Cornmeal beer

Cornmeal beer

Dr. Livingstone Lager

Dr. Livingstone Lager

Eagle

Eagle

Kachasu

Kachasu

Illegal local alcohol

Kankoyo

Kankoyo

Katata

Katata

Finger millet beer

Katubi

Katubi

Lusaka

Lusaka

Maheu

Maheu

Cornmeal sadza drink, may be allowed to ferment into an alcoholic drink

Mosi lager

Mosi lager

Munkoyo

Munkoyo

A non-alcoholic or fermented drink made from cornmeal and the roots of the munkoyo tree

Rhino

Rhino

Safari Stout

Safari Stout

Sorghum beer

Sorghum beer

Soured milk

Soured milk

Serve with sadza

Thobwa

Thobwa

Maize and millet or sorghum drink, non-alcoholic or fermented

Zikomo Copper Ale

Zikomo Copper Ale

African eggplant

African eggplant

Stewed, fried, fufu, curry, baba ganoush

Beef

Beef

Bream

Bream

Capitaine

Capitaine

Grilled, deep-fried, pan-fried, fillets, whole fish, cooked in banana leaves, stewed, curried

Chicken

Chicken

Curried, in peanut butter sauce, grilled

Chicken gizzard

Chicken gizzard

Fried, stewed, curried

Delele

Delele

Duiker

Duiker

Eggs

Eggs

Field mouse

Field mouse

Roasted, in peanut butter sauce

Fish

Fish

Cooked in cassava leave, boiled, cooked in a peanut sauce

Gazelle

Gazelle

Goat

Goat

Gombo

Gombo

Okra, used in many dishes, stewed, soup, sauce, with meat, seafood, as a thickening agent

Hare

Hare

Ifinkubala

Ifinkubala

Ifisashi

Ifisashi

Stewed greens and vegetables in peanut sauce, may also contain meat

Jollof rice

Jollof rice

Mixed rice with vegetables, meat, spices

Kapenta

Kapenta

Small lake fish, deep-fried, stewed, salted and dried, serve with sadza

Lamb

Lamb

Mabele

Mabele

Sorghum meal, commonly made into porridge, ting (sour porridge)

Mealie

Mealie

Cornmeal porridge

Michopo

Michopo

Grilled strips of beef, goat or lamb

Ndiwo

Ndiwo

Sauteed leafy vegetable greens, may include vegetables such as onions and tomatoes, meat, kapenta (fish), chicken

Nshima

Nshima

Cornmeal porridge

Nyama

Nyama

Meat, many ways to prepare, for example, stewed, grilled, stir fried

Peanut and squash stew

Peanut and squash stew

Peanut sauce

Peanut sauce

Peanut stew with vegetables, greens, beef, chicken, fish, shrimp

Samoosa

Samoosa

Samp and beans

Samp and beans

Sugar beans and corn cooked with vegetables, meat, spices, curry

Tigerfish

Tigerfish

Wild game

Wild game

Biltong

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Biltong

Air-dried meat, made from beef, springbok, game, kudu, ostrich, venison, wild game

Boerewors

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Boerewors

Beef and pork sausage, may also contain lamb, wild boar, venison, used in many different ways, for example, stews, grilled, with pap, bobotie, pies

Cassava

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Cassava

Chibwabwa

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Chibwabwa

Pumpkin leaves, stewed

Chikanda

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Chikanda

A vegetarian bologna-like sausage made from orchid tubers, peanuts, chilies, baking soda, popular in Zambia, this differs from English polony, which is a pork and beef sausage

Fruit

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Fruit

Bananas, lemons, mango, masau, masuku (loquats), mawuyu (baobab), paw-paw (papaya)

Gombo

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Gombo

Okra, used in many dishes, stewed, soup, sauce, with meat, seafood, as a thickening agent

Groundnut

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Groundnut

Peanut, for example, roasted, candied, stewed, sauce, soup

Insects

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Insects

Caterpillars, cicadas, inswa (flying ants), grasshoppers, mopane worms, stnk bugs

Katapa

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Katapa

Sweet potato leaves

Lumanda

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Lumanda

Lumanda leaves, commonly used in stews

Meat pie

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Meat pie

Savory pie filled with, meat, ground beef, fish, vegetables

Mopane worms

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Mopane worms

Fried, grilled, stewed

Nyemba

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Nyemba

Black-eyed peas, both the peas and their leaves are used in many ways

Onion

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Onion

Polony

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Polony

A bologna-like pork, beef and/or chicken sausage, this processed meat sausage is different from chikanda, also called African polony, which is a vegetarian loaf made from orchid tubers, peanuts, chilies and baking soda

Potato

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Potato

Rice

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Rice

Samosa

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Samosa

Tente

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Tente

An edible mushroom

Tomatoes

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Tomatoes

Vegetables

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Vegetables

Beans, bondwe (amaranthus), cassava, chibwabwa/chibwawa (pumpkin leaves), cow peas, impwa (African eggplant), ingolyolyo (pigeon peas), kalembula (sweet potato), katapa (sweet potato leaves), mushrooms, onions, pumpkins, pupwe (okra), rape, tomatoes

Vitumbua

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Vitumbua

Coconut rice pancakes

Yam

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Yam

Bota

Bota

Porridge with peanut butter (bota une dovi), sour milk, butter, jam

Bread

Bread

Sadza

Sadza

Cornmeal porridge, eaten with, for example, vegetables stews, greens, meat, kapenta (fish)

Tea

Tea

Tomato soup and scrambled eggs

Tomato soup and scrambled eggs

Stewed tomatoes and vegetables served with scrambled eggs

Crunchies

Crunchies

Oatmeal and coconut bars, serve with tea or coffee

Magwinya

Magwinya

Sweet fried dough, doughnut

Malva pudding

Malva pudding

Sponge cake with apricot jam, serve with custard and/or ice cream

Mapopo candy

Mapopo candy

Cooked papaya, coated with sugar

Mbatata

Mbatata

Sweet potato cookies

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