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Sadza

Name: Sadza
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Zimbabwe
Ingredients: 300g Corn grits; 1L Water

Side Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

White maize meal worked into a stiff porridge — Zimbabwe's everyday staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sadza is Zimbabwe's staple: white maize meal is cooked in water, then more meal is added and worked vigorously with a wooden spoon. In Zimbabwe it's said that if you haven't eaten sadza, you haven't eaten. It's rolled by hand into a ball with a dent to scoop up meat stew or greens.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Zimbabwean village home, a mother vigorously works white maize porridge in a pot over charcoal and shapes it into rounds on plates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn grits 300g
Water 1L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Warm 800ml water in a pot, add 100g of the maize meal mixed with water, and bring to a boil, stirring.
Cover and cook on low for 10 minutes into a loose porridge.
Add the remaining maize meal a little at a time and work vigorously with a wooden spoon.
When it's stiff enough to pull away from the pot, cover and let steam 3 minutes.
Shape into rounds with a wet ladle and plate.

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