Beef Braai
Barbecued beef cooked over open flame, typically marinated with salt and simple seasonings, purely meat-based.
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Botswana's cuisine centers on hearty, meat-heavy dishes like seswaa (pounded salted beef) and bogobe (sorghum porridge), alongside beloved street foods such as magwinya (fried dough) and adventurous mopane worms.
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Bogobe
Thick porridge made from sorghum, maize, or millet, naturally vegan and gluten-free when made with sorghum or millet.
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Chicken Feet
Boiled or grilled chicken feet sold as street food, entirely meat-based with bones and cartilage.
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Dikgobe
Cowpeas and samp cooked together into a bean-and-maize stew, naturally vegan though sometimes prepared with meat stock.
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Magwinya
Deep-fried dough balls (Botswana doughnuts), typically vegetarian but fried in shared oil that may contain meat residue.
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Mopane Worms
Dried or fried caterpillars (actually not worms) that are crunchy and protein-rich, entirely insect-based.
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Morogo
Wild spinach or other greens boiled and served as a vegetable side, traditionally vegan unless cooked with meat stock.
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Pap
Stiff maize-meal porridge that serves as the staple starch, naturally vegan and gluten-free.
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Samp
Stamped maize kernels cooked into a porridge or stew, often prepared with beans and sometimes cooked with animal fat.
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Serobe
Goat or cow intestines and internal organs stewed with onions and peppers, entirely meat-based offal dish.
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Seswaa
Botswana's national dish of slow-cooked beef or goat pounded into shredded strands with salt, always contains meat.
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Vetkoek
Deep-fried bread dough often stuffed with mince (ground meat) or jam, contains gluten and typically fried in shared oil.
Contains gluten
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