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Zambia

Nshima with ifisashi peanut-greens and kapenta little fish.

Iconic recipes

Stiff maize nshima paired with greens cooked in fresh peanut sauce.

Tiny dried lake fish quickly stewed with onion, tomato and chili — protein-packed Zambian comfort.

African 'polony' — a cake of pounded wild orchid tubers, peanuts and chili.

Stiff white maize nshima with a slow tomato-and-onion beef relish — Zambia's daily plate.

Greens stewed with creamy peanut sauce — eaten with nshima.

Zambian groundnut and orchid-tuber 'African polony' — a vegetarian loaf.