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Grilled Lime and Mayo Chicken

This is a pretty quick, easy and tasty chicken. All you need is the marinade, your chicken and you are ready to roll. Let’s get on with it! Quick Instructions For this recipe I used lime and mayo marinade. Click here to see the step by step recipe for the marinade. Get your chicken portions…

Lime and Mayo marinade (for poultry)

As I was doing this marinade I was filled with lots of uncertainty as I wasn’t sure if it was all going to come together.  After mixing everything giving it a little taste and adding a couple more ingredients, it came out quite well. You can use this for chicken, pork, or if you can…

Bread, butter and jam pudding (served with ice cream)

This is something that my mum used to make for us when we were growing up. Yes, bread can be turned into such a tasty dessert!! It’s pretty easy to do and you’ll love the results. Try it and let me know how it went down 🙂 Quick Instructions With your ingredients ready; castor sugar…

Grilled Pork chops with BBQ sauce

A large number of Zimbabweans love pork chops especially when it is braai-ed. Am sure there are many of us who have fond memories of doing this sort of thing kwaMereki. However, if you don’t want to braai your pork chops this is another quick and easy way of preparing them and the taste is…

Mushroom stir fry

Mushrooms are a pretty tasty vegetable. However, when I was growing up I did not like mushroom, lol. I would just eat them because my mum would say you have to and not because I enjoyed them…. KIDS 😀 Anyway, mushrooms are popular with many vegetarians and am sure this recipe will become handy. It’s…

Thanks for being A Fan – WIN ZimboKitchen Bakeware Giveaway!

Hi i just want to invite you to enter a contest we are conducting at ZimboKitchen.com We are giving away bakeware as a way to say thanks for using ZimboKitchen. All these details are found on this page. Please follow link to see how you can also enter this contest to WIN. – Thanks Rumbie…

How to make a Waffle (for breakfast or dessert)

If you are in Zimbabwe, waffles are commonly found at Creamy Inn and a couple of other places. The good thing about waffles is that you can have them in the morning with fruit and a drizzle of honey or as a dessert with ice cream and chocolate sticks as I have done here. They…

20 minute Meat balls

Meat balls are tasty, especially those that are made with flavor such as the ones in this recipe. The two important things to keep them together and not break apart when frying are the egg and refrigerating them after you have formed the meat ball. You can have these at lunch, supper or as a…

Oven grilled Chibage (mealies)

This oven grilled version is a variation of Chibage chakagochwa (barbecued mealies). Many of us Zimbabweans are used to the latter version, chepamoto (roasted using red hot log charcoal). However, if perhaps one does not like the smoked smell and taste on their Chigabe as often happens with chepamoto or you can’t do it yourself the…

Stewed Pork trotters (mazondo)

Mazondo (trotters) both beef and pork are common in the Zimbabwean cuisine. Mostly men enjoy these and some women too. It’s pretty straight forward how one prepares them. I prefer to slow cook them. In this way, you avoid adding too much water which my affect their taste at the end. Normally these are eaten…

Good old Madora, Amacimbi, Mopane worms – Version 2 (stewed)

This is one of the many Zimbabwean traditional delicacies and a definite no-no for others. For those in the latter group it could be a fear factor (according to some of my friends) or perhaps just a matter of preference. Aurther did the first version which you can find here. Madora are pretty easy to…

Quick and easy breakfast Chipalata sausage

This type of sausage that I used, the breakfast bacon Chipalata sausage, was actually quite tasty and the great thing about it is that it is all 100% made in Zimbabwe. One of the things that I was most happy about is that unlike some in-house sausages that you find in supermarkets or butcheries here…