Category:Botswanan Recipes

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National specialities: This people prepare exotic meals which are very tasty and in generally very good and exotic recipe is: -	mopani worms- this worms are sold dried. To prepare this meal u need to fry some onions in a little oil after add the worms and a tin of tomatoes. Add salt and pepper a simmer for around 20 mins. But normally you could eat mopani worms whilst they are still alive and fresh. - Seswaa which is pounded meat-u need for this recipe one big onion, one kilogram of water, salt and pepper for taste, and a half kilogram of brisket. Place the brisket, the onion and seasoning in a saucepan. Cover up with water and cook about two and half hours until soft. Drain liquid and pound the meat until flaky. Remove the bones. Serve with porridge, Morogo and gravy.
 * Morama (an underground tuber).
 * The Kalahari truffle.
 * The Mopane worm (boiled, cooked or deep-fried).
 * Beans such as cow peas, ditloo and letlhodi, dried bean leaves, plus nuts like peanuts and groundnuts.
 * Wild spinach, morogo is very tasty.
 * Plenty of watermelons, plus other varieties of melon.
 * Seswaa or Chotlho is a popular traditional meat dish cooked with only salt and water and served with pap, a soft maize meal.
 * Variations upon bread meals, such as dumplings (matemekwane), flat cakes (diphaphatha) and fat cakes (magwinya). ls, such as dumplings (matemekwane), flat cakes (diphaphatha) and fat cakes (magwinya).