Zambia

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Zambia

3 recipes

Photograph of Peri peri.

Peri peri

A chilli sauce built on the African bird's eye chilli, the cultivar called piri piri, with garlic, citrus and an oily or acidic base; its origin is uncertain and linked to Portuguese trade in southern Africa.

Southern Africa
· Condiments
A clear tumbler of pale, cloudy Munkoyo beside a small dish of maize meal and dried munkoyo roots.
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Zambian munkoyo from maize meal and munkoyo root

A creamy, mildly sour Zambian cereal drink in which the dug roots of wild legumes supply both the enzymes that break the cooked starch down and the microorganisms that then ferment it.

Zambia · Traditional method
· Drinks
A clear glass of pale, opaque Chibwantu maize drink with fine suspended cereal particles.
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Zambian chibwantu from maize grits and munkoyo root

A Zambian cereal drink built on coarse maize grits rather than meal, saccharified with an extract of wild munkoyo roots and then left to ferment spontaneously.

Central and Southern Zambia · Modern method
· Drinks