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Madombi

Name: Madombi
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Botswana
Ingredients: 250g Bread flour; 4g Dry yeast; 1 tsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 150ml (for the dough) + 500ml Water; 400g Beef; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 1 Beef Bouillon; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Yeasted dumplings steamed on top of meat stew — Botswana's fluffy dumplings.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Madombi is Botswana home cooking: balls of yeasted wheat dough are set on top of a meat or vegetable stew, covered, and steamed. They soak up the stew's flavor and puff up. It's made on Sundays and for family gatherings.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Botswana kitchen, the lid comes off a pot to reveal fluffy white dumplings packed on top of the stew.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 250g
Dry yeast 4g
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Water 150ml (for the dough) + 500ml
Beef 400g
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Beef Bouillon 1
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and 150ml lukewarm water and let rise 1 hour.
Heat oil in a pot, sauté the diced beef and onion, add the tomato, bouillon, and 500ml water, and simmer 1 hour.
Roll the dough into small balls.
Arrange the dumplings on top of the stew.
Cover and steam on low for 20 minutes without opening the lid.

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