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Maputi neNzungu

Zimbabwe

What we know so far

Maputi neNzungu is the fireside snack of rural Zimbabwe: dried maize kernels roasted in a heavy pan (a mugango) over the fire until they brown and some of them pop, with shelled groundnuts thrown in for the last minutes so they char at the edges, and a little salt water splashed in to season. It is chewy, smoky and filling, the thing people crunched around the fire on winter evenings, and the shop version, puffed maputi in a packet, is now a Harare bus-stop snack. Salted roasted peanuts on their own are mutetenherwa.

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Maputi neNzungu

Zimbabwe

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 4 ingredients and 5 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

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