Recipe: Nshima

This is taken from http://www.bridgewater.edu/~mtembo/nshimachapter1.htm

Nshima Recipe

Nshima is the staple food for 8 million Zambians. It is eaten at least twice per day; for lunch and dinner. Another second dish, known as
ndiwo, umunani, dende or relish, must always accompany nshima. The relish is always a deliciously cooked vegetable, meat, fish, or poultry
dish. By comparison to other cultures, Zambian recipes tend to be bland and hardly use any hot spices at all. However, they use other
traditional ingredients and spices that give Zambian foods that distinctive unique taste and flavor.

4 Cups Water

2 Cups plain corn meal

Method: Pour 4 cups of water into a medium size cooking pot. Heat the water for 3 - 4 minutes or until luke warm. Using one tablespoonful at
a time, slowly sprinkle 3/4 cup of the corn meal into the pot while stirring continuosly with a cooking stick. Keep stirring slowly until the
mixture begins to thicken and boil. Turn the heat to medium, cover the pot, and let simmer for 3 to 5 minutes.

Cautiously remove the top. Slowly, a little at a time, pour into the pot 1 and a quarter cups of corn meal and briskly stir with the cooking stick
until smooth and thick. Stir vigorosly. Sprinkle a little more corn meal and stir if you desire the nshima to be thicker or less if you want softer
nshima. Cover, turn the heat off and let nshima sit on the stove for another 2 to 3 minutes.

Serves 4 people

. Must always be served hot with a vegetable, bean, meat or fish dish.