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Sidvudvu

Name: Sidvudvu
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Eswatini
Ingredients: 1/4 (400g) Pumpkin; 100g Precooked Corn Flour; 500ml Water; 20g Butter; 1 tbsp Sugar; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Pumpkin and maize meal cooked and worked together — Eswatini's sweet porridge.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sidvudvu is a traditional Eswatini dish: pumpkin is cooked soft and worked together with maize meal into a soft porridge full of the pumpkin's sweetness. It's eaten for breakfast or as a side to meat dishes, sometimes with milk or sugar added.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a home beside the fields in Eswatini, orange pumpkin cooks down in a pot and is worked together with maize meal.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Pumpkin 1/4 (400g)
Precooked Corn Flour 100g
Water 500ml
Butter 20g
Sugar 1 tbsp
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and seed the pumpkin and cut into bite-size pieces.
Simmer the water, salt, and pumpkin in a pot for 15 minutes until tender.
Mash the pumpkin and mix in the maize meal a little at a time.
Keep working on low for 10 minutes so it doesn't scorch.
Mix in the butter and sugar.

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