Sadza Cooking Class And Dinner – Learn to prepare the Zimbabwean Traditional Meal of Sadza

Sadza Cooking Class + Dinner

Learn to prepare the Zimbabwean Traditional Meal of Sadza

Sunday, May 5 from 4-6 pm

@ Atonement Lutheran Church

$50 per person

RSVP required; participation is limited to 8

Learn to prepare a traditional Sadza meal! We will cook together in teams of 2, led by our local sadza-making veteran Amy McIntosh, and then share our meal together.

Sadza in Shona is a cooked maize meal that is the staple food in Zimbabwe and other parts of Southern Africa. Sadza is made with finely ground dry maize/corn maize (Mealie-Meal) and water…nothing else.

A meal of sadza includes sadza, a stew with sauce or gravy, and a side dish. If visitors are being served, the stew contains meat. This simple meal is enjoyed 1-2 times per day in Zimbabwe and is simply called “sadza.”

Sadza is typically served on individual plates but traditionally sadza was eaten from a communal bowl, a tradition that is still maintained by some families mainly in the rural areas. It is generally eaten with the right hand without the aid of cutlery; often rolled into a ball before used to scoop up the stew, sauce/gravy, or stewed vegetables. We will show you how, don’t worry!