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Eswatini
Sidvudvu is the Swazi pumpkin porridge: chunks of pumpkin boiled soft, maize meal stirred in, and the two mashed together into a thick, sweet, orange pap. It is harvest-season food in Eswatini, when the pumpkins come in with the maize, and it stands beside sishwala (plain thick porridge) and incwancwa (sour porridge) in the list of everyday Swazi staples. It is eaten on its own for breakfast, or as the starch under a stew, and needs nothing more than a little salt; some cooks add a pinch of sugar or nutmeg.
The draft was written from 3 published sources and holds 5 ingredients and 5 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.