Nshima with ifisashi
Zambia’s everyday meal: nshima, a firm white-maize porridge eaten with your hands, with ifisashi, greens stewed in peanut sauce.
Ingredients
- 400 g fine white maize flour
- 1 litre of water
- Ifisashi: 500 g spinach or spring greens, 1 onion, 2 tomatoes, 100 g ground roasted peanuts (or peanut butter), salt
How to make it at home
- Heat the water and, before it boils, add a third of the maize meal, stirring to make a thin porridge. Let it boil, covered, for 5 minutes.
- Add the rest of the maize meal little by little, pressing and stirring with a wooden spoon, until you have a firm, smooth dough.
- For the ifisashi, cook the chopped onion and tomato with a little water and add the ground peanuts.
- Add the greens in strips and cook for 10 minutes, stirring, until the sauce thickens.
- Serve the nshima in rounded portions with the ifisashi alongside.
The trick: You take a piece of nshima, roll it into a ball in your hand and dip it in the sauce.