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Side Dish · Eswatini Recipe

Sikonyane (Roasted Locusts)

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • Whole locusts

Directions

  1. Prepare embers and roast the whole locust on the embers. Remove head, wings and legs, in other words only the breast part is eaten.
  2. You can also break off the heads and last joint of hind legs and rest them on the coals to roast. The roasted locusts are ground on a grinding stone to a very fine powder. This powder can be kept for long periods of time and is taken on a journey.