Cuisine of Eswatini
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The cuisine of subsistence farmers who supplement their diet with food bought from markets.
Produce and imports from coastal nations are also part of the cuisine of Eswatini .[3] Some local markets have food stalls with traditional Swazi meat stew, sandwiches, maize meal and seasonal roasted corn on the cob.[3]
Traditional foods
beans
Traditional foods of Eswatini include:
- Sishwala—thick porridge normally served with meat or vegetables
- Incwancwa—sour porridge made of fermented cornmeal
- Sitfubi—fresh milk cooked and mixed with cornmeal
- Siphuphe setindlubu—thick porridge made of mashed ground nuts
- Emasi etinkhobe temmbila—ground sour milk
- Emasi emabele—ground sorghum mixed with sour milk
- Sidvudvu—porridge made of pumpkin mixed with cornmeal
- Umncweba—dried uncooked meat (biltong)
- Siphuphe semabhontjisi—thick porridge made of mashed beans
- Tinkhobe—boiled whole maize
- Umbidvo wetintsanga—cooked pumpkin tops (leaves) mixed with ground nuts
- Emahewu—meal drink made from fermented thin porridge
- Umcombotsi—traditional brewed beer in Siswati is called tjwala
See also
- African cuisine
- Umtsimba - marriage ceremony
References
- ^ "Food habits of rural Swazi households" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ "Swaziland Food and Drink". Archived from the original on 2008-09-19.
- ^ a b "Swaziland Food and Dining" Archived 2009-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. iExplore (website). Accessed May 2010.