Zambia recipes
Recipes from Zambia: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Boiled Bream Fish, Zambian Style: Whole Fish Simmered on Banana Leaves with Tomato and Onion
How to make Chef Bernard Zulu's Zambian-style boiled bream, as published by UN Tourism: a whole fish layered over chopped tomato and onion on banana leaves, then simmered with sunflower oil, water and salt. Covers cleaning the fish, building the pot, checking doneness with a thermometer, serving with nshima, choosing a fish outside Zambia, and handling leftovers safely.
How to Make Ifisashi: Zambian Greens Simmered in Peanut Sauce
A recipe for Zambian ifisashi made with leafy greens and unsweetened peanuts. Substitutes such as komatsuna and kale, the thickness of the peanut sauce, how to eat it with nshima, heat that avoids scorching, storage, shopping, and adjusting water, the easiest place to go wrong, set out step by step so a first try works.