What Are We Cooking Today

TIP "Did you know the actual scientific name for Amadumbe is "Colocasia esculenta" INGREDIENTS  10 Amadumbe  Water STEPS 1. Wash your amadumbe.  2. Put your amadumbe in a pot and add just enough water to cover half a dumbe . Close pot with lid and bring to boil.  3. Turn down the heat and boil the amadumbe for 30 minutes or until you can stick a fork in your amadumbe and it goes in easily. If water level drops during cooking add more water. 4. Remove pot from stove and drain any excess water. 5. Serve and enjoy!

  INGREDIENTS 1 bag of Imbuya 1 onion To taste salt To fry olive oil STEPS 1. Chop onion 2. Pour olive oil in the pot 3. Fry your onion and add Imbuya in the pot and cover the pot with a lid and cool for about 25 minutes 4. Stir and add salt 5. Then your Imbuya is ready, we enjoy it during launch time with pap.

  INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon shortening 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1⁄4 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1⁄2 cup milk STEPS 1. Mix together 1st four ingredients. 2. Then mix eggs with milk and add to mixture to form dough. 3. Roll out on floured surface about a 1/8 inch thick and cut into desired strips. 4. Boil in a broth of your choice for 10 minutes with lid off, then finish for 10 minutes with lid on. 5. Eat and Enjoy!

  INGREDIENTS 3 cups hard green baby mangoes sliced into bite sized pieces 3 Tbsp mustard seeds (half to be crushed and half left whole) 2 Tbsp atchar masala 1 Tbsp salt 4 Tbsp red chilli powder 4 cloves garlic (thinly crushed) Cooking oil STEPS 1. Place mango pieces in an airy container and sundry for a whole day. This takes out some unnecessary moisture in your mangoes 2. Transfer mangoes to a bowl and add salt, mustard powder/seeds, masala, chilli powder, and garlic. Stir the mixture together then add a few tablespoons of oil (2 to 3). Stir the mixture again until it looks wet and completely combined (spices stick to the mangoes...make sure not too many spices are loose) 3. Cover the container with a tight lid and let sit for 24hrs. This gives the mangoes time to release some of their remaining juices and to fully incorporate with the rest of the ingredients 4. Meanwhile, estimate how much oil you'd need to cover the top of the contents when it's time to transfer your atchar...

  INGREDIENTS 5 medium potatoes To taste salt Vinegar Cooking oil STEPS  1. Peel the potatoes. 2. Cut them into thin chip shape. 3. In a pan prepare the cooking oil. 4. Dry the potatoes and them into the pan to fry. 5. It's done and can be enjoyed with rolls, bread and green salad.

TIP "A lot of people who love umphokoqo also love intshela (foundation), so when cooking this lovely dish try not to scorch the foundation otherwise your family will be very upset with you!  It’s very nice with milk especially when it’s still warm mmmmmm!J." INGREDIENTS 700ml mealie meal 575ml water, boiling 7.5 ml salt 5 ml butter / margarine (optional)   STEPS 1. Boil the water with a kettle and add to a medium saucepan. 2. Continue boiling the water in the pan and add mealie meal.  Stir with a fork until mixed and cover with a lid. 3. Let simmer and continue stirring at 5-minute intervals.  Cook for 30 minutes at stove setting 2. 4. Transfer to a big bowl and shake the umphokoqo up and down to cool it down.  Serve with milk or sour milk.  For extra flavour and richness, add 2 tablespoons of cream.