Recipes for Chatsworth dishes

We would like to give short lists of dishes as you might find at Chatsworth. The following are dishes we will develop over the next few weeks. If you would like  to see the outline of one listed dish, but the dish is way down the list, please let us know and we will push it up the list for you.

Also please try to pronounce the names correctly so that when you visit us, you can ask us to make you the dish. We look forward to you participating in this exercise. Note that we have to find specialists community members to assist in compiling this page, so we may be some time. Also please keep reading the updates as  the recipes with be refined as the get reviewed by those in the know. We will try to put pictures of some of the items used.

Dish	Main ingredient	Recipe	Caution
How to make sadza	Boiling water in deep saucepan Maize meal	Ingridients Maize meal Water  Boil water in a deep saucepan or pot.  Add a little maize meal and stir with a wooden twirler till mixture is thin and runny paste. All time to cook (5 min) Add more meal and mix with a wooden stick. Mix till mixture is thick enough to mould with fingers.  Serve with a relish such as veg or beef stew.	If you have not had Sadza before or you have not had it recently, do not eat a lot of it at a time to start off with. Sadza when cooked properly is very good to eat.
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How to cook mutakura	Cow beans, Round nuts, peanuts, other type beans/nuts	Choose the type of bean Soak in clean water overnight Place in large pot Pour water at 4 times volume of beeans Add small amount of salt Boil till beans go soft That is Mutakura Serve as a side dish
How to cook mungai	Maize kernels
How to make mashazhare	Maize kernels with skins taken off.
How to make nhopi	Special water melon. This water melon cannot be eaten raw.
How to make rupiza	Split cow beans with skins taken off, a bit like lentils.
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