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Lesson 36

Food

Traditional food

Pap’- made from milled maize look for iwisa

Biltong – dried meat

Mashonzha- worms from mopane tree

Mahewu- made from left over pap’ it’s fermented

Boerewors – spiced sauages eaten in BBQ / braai

Potjeikos- stew made from boiled meat mixed with vegetables eaten with pap’

Amasi – sour milk fermented eaten with pap’

Isidudu- pumkin pap’

Ostrich - intshe . stew it or turn it into dried meat

Beef - inyama yenkomo

Chicken- inyama yenkukhu, wosa inkukhu- roast the chicket

Umngqusho- samp

Bambara groundnut/ indlubu/yubo beans- type of nut but not oily like most nuts

Locust –intethe

Maize ummbila roast or boil

Fish – inhlanzi

Common food

Watermelon –ikhabe

Iganda- egg

Milk- ubisi

Juice- umhluzi

Cooking oil- amafutha wokupheka

Bread –isinkwa

Fried bread - amaqelebengwana

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