Celtnet Malawi Recipes and Cookery, Home Page





Welcome to the Celtnet Recipes section for recipes from the East African country of Malawi. Here you will find all the recipes from Malawi on this site all gathered into one place. I have attempted to gather together here as many Malawian recipes as possible. The current collection represents the largest gathering of Malawian recipes into one place on the web today. (Just scroll down for the recipes, they follow the brief introduction to Malawi given below.)

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Malawi and its Cuisine

Malawi, officially: Dziko la Malaŵi; Republic of Malawi is an East African country bordering the Great Lakes. The capital is Lilongwe and its largest city is Blantyre and the country gained independence from Britain on July 6th 1964. Malawi derives its name from the Maravi, a Bantu people who came from the southern Congo basin circa 1400. The Chewas constitute 90% of the population of the central region; the Nyanja tribe predominates in the south and the Tumbuka in the north. In addition, significant numbers of the Tongas live in the north; Ngonis (an offshoot of the Zulus who came from South Africa in the early 1800s) live in the lower northern and lower central regions; and the Yao, who are mostly Muslim, live along the southeastern border with Mozambique. Bantus of other tribes came from Mozambique as refugees. The official language is English, though Chichewa is treated as a national languge.

With the exception of the introduction of cassava, peanuts and chillies, Malawian cuisine has remained relatively free of outside influences. The traditional staple food is a thick maize porridge (replacing millet) that's shaped into patties and served as an accompaniment with beans, meat or vegetables. Rice and futou (mashed plantain and cassava) and fufu (fermented cassava) are also staples. Fish is the main source of protein, with many of these fish being derived from lake Malawi itself. Tilapia is the country's speciality fish and the local catfish is also frequently cooked.



The alphabetical list of recipes from Malawi follows (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 18 recipes in total:


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Futali
     Origin: Malawi
Mbtata Pudding
(Sweet Potato Pudding)
     Origin: Malawi
Nthochi Bread
(Banana Bread)
     Origin: Malawi
Malawi Curry Powder
     Origin: Malawi
Mkhwani with Groundnut Flour
     Origin: Malawi
Nthochi II
(Malawi Banana Bread)
     Origin: Malawi
Malawian Cabbage
     Origin: Malawi
Mtedza
(Peanut Puffs)
     Origin: Malawi
Peanut and Banana Cake
     Origin: Malawi
Mandazi Fritters
     Origin: Malawi
Mtedza Cake
(Peanut Cake)
     Origin: Malawi
Vegetable Ndiwo
     Origin: Malawi
Mbatata Biscuits
(Sweet Potato Biscuits)
     Origin: Malawi
Mtedza Puffs
     Origin: Malawi
Zitumbuwa
(Banana Fritters)
     Origin: Malawi
Mbatata II
(Sweet Potato Biscuits II)
     Origin: Malawi
Nsima
     Origin: Malawi
Zitumbwa
(Banana Fritters II)
     Origin: Malawi

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The image above shows the entire continent of Africa with East Africa picked out in red. East Africa is formed from nineteen states: 1: Burundi; 2: Comoros; 3: Djibouti; 4: Eritrea; 5: Ethiopia; 6: Kenya; 7: Madagascar; 8: Malawi; 9: Mauritius; 10: Mayotte; 11: Mozambique; 12: Réunion; 13: Rwanda; 14: Seychelles; 15: Somalia; 16: Tanzania; 17: Uganda; 18: Zambia; and 19: Zimbabwe.

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Recipe Information: 114

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Recipe Information: 35

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Recipe Information: 113

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Recipe Information: 56

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Recipe Information: 35

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Recipe Information: 35

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Recipe Information: 35

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