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🇿🇼Zimbabwe

Bota

Thin maize or millet porridge cooked for breakfast and flavoured with peanut butter, milk, sugar or a knob of butter.

🇨🇩DR Congo

Congolese Fufu

Fufu

The staple food of the Congo — a smooth, dense, slightly elastic dough made from cassava flour, corn flour, or sometimes plantains; rolled into golf-ball-sized balls and dipped into stews; the proper way to eat it is to pinch off a piece with the right hand, indent with the thumb, and scoop up sauce; present on all Congolese tables from north to south; the universal accompaniment.

🇲🇼Malawi

Pap (Maize Meal Porridge)

Pap

South Africa's staple food: a starchy porridge of maize meal (mielie-meal), served soft or stiff with meat, gravy, or chakalaka

🇲🇼Malawi

Sadza

Isitshwala

White maize meal stirred into boiling water in two stages — a thin porridge first, then more meal beaten in — until it is stiff enough to be rolled into a ball by hand.

🇿🇲Zambia

Zambian Maize Porridge

Nshima

The cornerstone of Zambian cuisine; thick porridge made from ground maize flour (mealie meal); stirred into boiling salted water and cooked until smooth and firm; firm enough to hold its shape when molded; eaten by hand, preferably the right hand; served with relishes, stews, fish, vegetables, and beans; the dietary essential that powers the nation; eaten at lunch and dinner.