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I am a final year Media Studies major, French minor, at the University of Botswana. I grew up in a multicultural home in Botswana with a Swati mother and a Motswana father. Unfortunately, growing up in the quickly modernizing city of Gaborone, I found that my parents raised us in a western fashion so as we adapt to the world around us, sans any deep rooted traditions. As a child my favorite thing to do was go to weddings and eat all the traditional food that I was never afforded in our "neutral" home. Hence the establishment of this blog. I hope I can help another fellow un-motswana Motswana!

Monday, 9 April 2018

Seswaa





Ingredients

  • 800g slow cooking beef
  • 1 whole chopped onion (optional)
  • 3 bay leaves
  • Salt to taste
  • Black pepper (optional)
  • Water (enough to just cover the meat) 
How to: 

Step 1: Pre heat oven to 160 degrees celcius

Step 2: Cut meat into large chunks then brown in a dish suitable for slow cooking in the oven

Step 3: Add chopped onion, salt, black pepper, and bay leaves 

Step 4: Bring to boil then cover and place into the oven for 4 hours until very soft/overcooked

Step 5: Remove from oven and place on stove burner, cook off remaining liquid

Step 6: Use a wooden spoon to pound or mash up meat until it has a shredded appearance

Step 7: Check seasoning then serve 

Goes well with bogobe jwa lerotse, phaletshe, or phaphatha.

Bogobe Jwa Lerotse



Ingredients


  • 1/4 Lerotse (melon)
  • 500g  Bopi jwa mabele (sorghum)
  • 1/2 cup Madila (sour milk)
How to:

Step 1: Slice, peel, and remove seeds from the lerotse 

Step 2: Cut the lerotse into cubes 

Step 3: Bring water to a boil and add the lerotse  

Step 4: Cook gently for 30minutes or until the lerotse is soft enough to whisk

Step 5: Slowly add the bopi jwa mabele bit by bit, whisking until all lumps are broken down

Step 6: Once the mixture is at a creamy consistency, cover the pot and allow it to simmer for 10 minutes 

Step 7: Add more bopi while stirring with a wooden spoon until the mixture is at a desired consistency

Step 8: Add madila, gently folding it into the bubbling mixture.

Step 9: Reduce heat and leave for another 20 minutes or until cooked 

Step 10: Serve 

Can be eaten sweet or savory. Add sugar for sweet and eat with morogo or stew, for savory.



Dikgobe




Ingredients

  • 500g samp
  • 250g speckled sugar beans
  • 1 teaspoon salt (1 tsp)
  • 1 teaspoon pepper (1 tsp)
  • 10 ml oil 



How to:

Step 1: Soak the samp and beans in cold water overnight to soften them

Step 2: Drain the next day and place in a heavy based saucepan with 1litre of water

Step 3: Add oil and salt

Step 4: Boil until tender

Step 5: Serve and dash with pepper to taste 

Goes well with beef stew, spinach, dried corn.