Nshima making night

Nshima is a strange white, almost mash potato like, substance which Zambian’s have a never ending appetite for eating. When it cools slightly after cooking the Nshima is moulded into palm sized balls using your hand for eating alongside meat or fish and some vegetables and beans. Nshima is a cooked porridge made from ground maize – using either breakfast meal maize which is very refined and starch like, or with roller meal which is less refined, maybe not as attractive presentation wise but with more nutrition so healthier. Both types are very filling. And the nshima even comes with its own special wooden stick. So the girls, and our neighbours Abigail and Ingrid, gave us a lesson on how to prepare nshima, expecting that we will take this tradition back to our home countries. It was tasty meal though if I ate it daily like a Zambian my weight would double.