Celtnet Zimbabwean Recipes and Cookery, Home Page





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

Please not that this recipe page (and all the other recipe pages on this site) are brought to you in association with the 'One Million People' campaign, which attempts to make a vailable a number of ancient texts (particularly those relating to recipes) available for free on this site.

Your donations keep this site going and they keep me motivated to add more and more content to the site as well.

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Zimbabwe and its Cuisine

Zimbabwe, officially: the Republic of Zimbabwe and formerly the Republic of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia, is a landlocked country in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. The capital and largest city is Harare and Zimbabwe (as rhodesia) gained independence from Britain on November 11 1965. The country was officially re-named Zimbabwe on April 18th 1980. Zimbabwe posessed one of the strongest economies of any Afrian country, but under the regine of Robert Mugabe its economy has collapsed. The main ethnic groups in Zimbabwe are: Shona (82%). Ndebele (9%) and Bantus of other ethnicity (9%). There are small minorities of White Zimbabweans (1.5%), Mixed race (0.5%) and Asian (0.5%). English is the official language of Zimbabwe, though less than 2.5%, mainly the white and Coloured (mixed race) minorities, consider it their native language. The rest of the population speak Shona (76%) and Ndebele (18%). Forty to fifty percent of Zimbabweans attend Christian churches. Around ten percent are Roman Catholics, who have an Archbishop of Harare. However like most former European colonies, Christianity is often mixed with enduring traditional beliefs. Besides Christianity, ancestral worship is the most practiced non-Christian religion which involves ancestor worship and spiritual intercession.

The country of Zimbabwe is bordered by two great rivers, the Limpopo and the Zambezi. These provide a great quantity of fish which are a staple of the country's diet. Maize (corn) is an important food crop and it forms the carbohydrate staple of the diet. Traditional meals consist of breads, such as pot brood (pot bread), patarolle (sweet potato rolls), mashed veggies, isidudu (pumpkin pap), soups (maize soup) and stews (tomato bredie, Potato stew with Chicken or potjiekos [potjie]). As might be expected the overall cuisine of Zimbabwe is more similar to that of Southern Africa rather than East Africa.



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


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Chicken Stew with Sadza Dumplings
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Malawi Shandy
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Pineapple Ham with Avocado
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Corn Meal with Pumpkin
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Mapopo
(Papaya Candy)
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Rock Shandy
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Cornmeal Cake
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Marula Jelly
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Sadza
(Corn Porridge)
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Dovi
(Peanut Butter Stew)
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Nhopi
(Maize Meal with Pumpkin)
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Greens
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Grilled Guinea Fowl with Orange
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Nyma ye Huku
(Zimbabwean Chicken Stew)
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean Malva Pudding
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Isidudu
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Orange and Tomato Soup
     Origin: Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean Sweet Potato Biscuits
     Origin: Zimbabwe

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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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