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Zimbabwe
Nzungu are groundnuts, and in Zimbabwe they are a meal as much as a snack. In the harvest months (zhizha) fresh nuts are boiled in the shell in salted water and eaten warm with tea for breakfast; out of season, dried shelled nuts are soaked and boiled the same way, soft and salty, and a bowl with a glass of water will stand in for lunch. The other classic is mutetenherwa, dry nuts roasted in a pan or a broken clay pot on the fire and salted with a splash of brine at the end.
The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 7 ingredients and 5 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.