nshima

The diners have to wash their hands as nshima is eaten with bare hands.

An indentation in the nshima ball can be made to help scoop the relish or gravy.

In Africa, she had eaten foods like nshima, a cornmeal pudding similar to polenta, with her hands.

"We really miss our nshima," Chiyangi said, referring to the corn-meal dish that is Zambia's staple food.

In the corner of the construction site were a group of builders in blue uniforms involved in the important business of cooking nshima.

It is normally eaten as a thick porridge, called nshima (Nyanja Word), prepared from maize flour, commonly known as mealie meal.

Cassava, which was also introduced from the Americas, can also be used to make nshima, either exclusively or mixed with maize flour, and is considered a delicacy by some.

- Chief Machiya (Zambia) Abena Bwali (Nshima clan)

T-bone steaks in Zambia are equally big and delicious, when bbq'd on a braai and served with a big hot dollop of the cereal they call nshima !

Peanuts are a common ingredient of several types of relishes (dishes which accompany nshima) eaten by the tribes in Malawi and in the eastern part of Zambia, and these dishes are now common throughout both countries.

Zambian economists estimate that at least a third of the nation's corn crop, which is made into a cornmeal mush called nshima, ends up illicitly in Zaire, bringing four or five times more on the free market than the Government-controlled price in Zambia.

These two, under various names, are staple foods over a wide part of the African continent, e.g., pap in South Africa, sadza in Zimbabwe, nshima in Zambia, tuwo or ogi in Nigeria, etc., though some of these may also be made from sorghum.

Closely related staples are called nshima in Zambia, nsima in Malawi, sadza in Zimbabwe, pap in South Africa, posho in Uganda, luku, fufu, nshima, moteke, semoule and bugari in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and phaletshe in Botswana.