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Mbatata

Malawi

What we know so far

Mbatata is the Chichewa word for sweet potato, and mbatata cookies are Malawi's soft sweet potato biscuits: mashed orange sweet potato worked into a light dough with flour, butter, milk, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon, rolled out, cut into rounds or hearts and baked until just golden, then dusted with cinnamon sugar. They are a tea-time bake of mission kitchens and home cooks, softer than a shop biscuit, sometimes with raisins pressed in, and they use the crop that grows in every Malawian garden.

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 10 ingredients and 6 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.
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Waiting for a cook

Mbatata

Malawi

What we know so far

The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 10 ingredients and 6 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.

See every dish waiting