About this dish
Wild forest mushrooms gathered in the rainy season, cooked with onion and tomato or in peanut butter.
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Ingredients
🍄500g fresh wild mushrooms (chanterelles or similar), cleaned
🧅1 onion, sliced
🍅2 tomatoes, chopped
🥜2 tbsp peanut butter, optional
🫗2 tbsp cooking oil
🧂Salt
Method
Serves 41
Clean the mushrooms carefully and tear larger ones into pieces.2
Fry the onion in oil until soft.3
Add the mushrooms and cook until their liquid has been released and mostly evaporated.4
Add the tomatoes and cook to a sauce, then stir in the peanut butter with a little water if using.5
Season and serve with sadza.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Nhedzi (Cantharellus and related wild mushrooms) are prized in Zimbabwe's miombo woodlands; children and women gather them after the first rains and sell them along the roadside.
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