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Vitumbuwa

Name: Vitumbuwa
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Zambia
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 5g Dry yeast; 60g Sugar; A pinch Salt; 280ml Water; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Loose batter fried into round fritters — a Zambian morning stall snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vitumbuwa are round fritters eaten in Zambia and Malawi: loose yeasted batter is scooped with a spoon and fried. Crisp outside, fluffy inside, and lightly sweet, they're eaten for breakfast with tea or as a market snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Zambian market in the morning, a woman fries round fritters in a big pot and sells them wrapped in paper to children.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 60g
Salt A pinch
Water 280ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Add lukewarm water to the flour, yeast, sugar, and salt to make a loose batter.
Let rise 1 hour until bubbly.
Scoop spoonfuls of batter into 170°C oil.
Fry, rolling them, until golden.
Drain on a rack.

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