Namibia

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Namibia

4 recipes

Fried Oondhingu dried beef with onion, tomato, green pepper and chilli, served with pap

Alina's Oondhingu

Alina Magano Johannes’s Oondhingu is a family dish from Onyaanya, Oshikoto, in northern Namibia: softened dried beef fried with vegetables and served with pap.

Oshikoto
· Meat
A bowl of pale, softly curdled omaere with a calabash vessel in the background.
High risk

Omaere (Herero soured milk)

A cultural record of omaere, soured milk associated with Otjiherero-speaking communities in Namibia and Botswana, and documented through household accounts of calabash vessels and fermentation.

Namibia · Traditional method
· Dairy
Illustrative finished Oshikundu (ontaku): an opaque, grain-textured mahangu and sorghum-malt drink served freshly stirred.
Elevated risk

Namibian oshikundu (ontaku) with sorghum malt

A Namibian everyday drink of pearl-millet flour scalded with hot water, thinned with sorghum malt and bran and soured quickly by a spoonful of the previous batch.

Namibia · Modern method
· Drinks
Illustrative finished Omagongo, shown as cloudy pale-yellow marula drink beside a carved wooden cup and ripe marula fruit.

Omagongo

The fermented marula drink of northern Namibia's Aawambo communities, pressed from ripe Sclerocarya birrea fruit and left to the yeasts already on it, and drunk at the Oshituthi shomagongo festival.

Northern Namibia · Traditional method
· Drinks