Local Dishes

1. Sishwala

   Sishwala (porridge eaten with meat or vegetables)

   Usage

   A traditional porridge eaten with meat or a vegetable relish

   Grammar Note

   A thick porridge, eaten with meat or a vegetable relish.

2. Sishwala sikudla kwesintfu.

   Sishwala is a traditional food.

   Usage

   A sentence for explaining that a dish is traditional

   Grammar Note

   sikudla means "it is food".

3. Incwancwa

   Incwancwa (sorghum porridge)

   Usage

   A traditional porridge made by boiling sorghum (emabele)

   Grammar Note

   The same dish is also called lijingi.

4. Lijingi

   Lijingi (traditional porridge dish)

   Usage

   A traditional food, said to be the same dish as incwancwa

   Grammar Note

   Said to be another name for incwancwa.

5. Sidvudvu

   Sidvudvu (pumpkin porridge)

   Usage

   A porridge of pumpkin (litsanga) mixed with maize meal

   Grammar Note

   A porridge of pumpkin (litsanga) mixed with maize meal.

6. Ludvwidvwi

   Ludvwidvwi (pumpkin porridge with milk)

   Usage

   The name for sidvudvu made with milk (lubisi)

   Grammar Note

   The name for sidvudvu made with milk (lubisi).

7. Sitfubi

   Sitfubi (milk cooked with maize)

   Usage

   A traditional food of milk cooked together with maize

   Grammar Note

   Milk cooked together with maize.

8. Siphuphe setindlubu

   Siphuphe setindlubu (thin porridge of ground tindlubu)

   Usage

   A thin porridge of ground tindlubu (Bambara groundnuts)

   Grammar Note

   siphuphe is a thin porridge; setindlubu means "of tindlubu" (Bambara groundnuts).

9. Siphuphe semabhontjisi

   Siphuphe semabhontjisi (thin jugo bean porridge)

   Usage

   A thin porridge made from ground beans (emabhontjisi)

   Grammar Note

   siphuphe is a thin porridge; semabhontjisi means "of beans".

10. Tinkhobe

    Tinkhobe (boiled whole maize kernels)

    Usage

    A traditional food of whole maize kernels boiled

    Grammar Note

    Tinkhobe is made from ummbila (maize).

11. Libhedla

    Libhedla (dish of fresh maize)

    Usage

    A dish of ground fresh maize mixed with a pumpkin-leaf relish, eaten in the maize season

    Grammar Note

    It is eaten only in the maize season.

12. Libhedla litsandvwa kakhulu.

    Libhedla is very well liked.

    Usage

    A sentence saying that a dish is much liked

    Grammar Note

    litsandvwa is the passive "is liked".

13. Umbhidvo wetintsanga

    Umbhidvo wetintsanga (pumpkin-leaf relish)

    Usage

    Cooked pumpkin leaves mixed with groundnuts, a relish eaten with porridge

    Grammar Note

    umbhidvo is the relish served with porridge; tintsanga are pumpkin leaves.

14. Umncweba

    Umncweba (dried meat, biltong)

    Usage

    Meat that is dried without being cooked, found throughout southern Africa

    Grammar Note

    The description is inyama lengakaphekwa leyomisiwe (meat not yet cooked, dried).

15. Inyama yembuti

    Goat meat

    Usage

    Meat of the best-known livestock in the country, often eaten with porridge

    Grammar Note

    inyama (meat) + yembuti (of goat).

16. Emasi etinkhobe temmbila

    Emasi etinkhobe temmbila (sour milk with boiled maize kernels)

    Usage

    A traditional food of boiled maize kernels mixed with emasi (sour milk)

    Grammar Note

    emasi (sour milk) + tinkhobe (boiled kernels) + temmbila (of maize).

17. Ngicela sishwala nenyama.

    Please, sishwala and meat.

    Usage

    A way to order porridge and meat at a restaurant or food stall

    Grammar Note

    A polite order is ngicela + noun (there is no word for "please").

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