Amahewu Beverage: The Beauty of Fermentation!

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Amahewu is a non-alcoholic, fermented beverage that is made from a combination of soft porridge, finger millet and sugar. Care and patience is required in the preparation of this precious and monumental beverage. In this video, we look at the preparation, storing and the commercialisation of Amahewu.
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Other Names for Amahewu (Ndebele and Zulu):
Mahleu (Sesotho), Mageu (Setswana), Mahewu (Shona, Nyanja and Chewa), , Maxau (Khoekhoe), and AmaRhewu (Xhosa).
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Timestamps:
Introduction » 00:00
Preparation of Amahewu » 00:44
Storing and Serving Amahewu » 05:17
Commercialisation of Amahewu » 07:08
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[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

2:04 | Amahewu is commonly prepared using mealie meal. For this type of grain you can also use sorghum in place of finger millet.

[@thaboshikwambane]

💯 by the traditional method, before Western influence, is definitely the sorghum based mageu. I’ve never tasted the sorghum mageu - really keen on giving them a try 🙏🏽

[@Blosoomlicous]

Sawubona, I have a quick question will sorghum flour work or I need it in it's natural form. Ngiyabonga.

[@murungu24]

I miss mahewu. I drink it mazuva ose when Im in zim. I bought alot of instant mahewu powder: So I had mahewu for many months in Sweden.

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Amahewu are very nutritious Peter Jonsson!

[@murungu24]

@@MagrizaMadeMeCook nutritius and tasty

[@whatsoccuringmaizuu]

OMG this is fantastic I have just learned how to make my own chimera thank you 🙏🏿

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Thanks for watching Tendai.

[@whatsoccuringmaizuu]

This is also a powerful probiotic which is good for gut health. I am not so sure about the commercial produced one.

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Very powerful probiotic Tendai

[@elisonthabotshabangu9583]

You're doing a good job Mr Mahlangu some of us didn't grow up emakhaya but we're learning more about our culture from you. Please post a videos on recipes for inhloko and ezangaphakathi.

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Thanks for the feedback Mr. Tshabangu. We will definitely do a video yenhloko lezangaphakathi

[@thaboshikwambane]

My guy your situation will be the norm and this type of content will only grow in importance. I feel like these guys have honestly struck gold.

[@sesmokirwa2645]

Wow! You video contents inspires a brother from kenya.what you are showcasing on culture and traditional practices is a true gem

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Thank you so much Sesmo Kirwa. We really appreciate your feedback 🇰🇪🇿🇼

[@defianthoplite2327]

Really enjoy your videos, could you do video on homemade spices -mixing your own spices to make your own homemade Curry mix and boerewors sausage spice mix

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Thanks for subscribing to the channel Josh Phil. We will certainly look at the spices video

[@thaboshikwambane]

@@MagrizaMadeMeCook Not so sure about curry and international spices. But there’s a pervasive myth that we didn’t season/flavour our food as Africans and we just added salt. I refuse to believe that spices came from India and that we were lost before them - the people who were culinarily lost were the British. With them being colonizers here, they meld their cultural culinary history with ours which is rubbish. Tonnes of beautiful plants grow in Southern Africa. Herbs and all types of great plants that would be great as spices, I refuse to believe that we didn’t use them to cook cause there’s clear proof that we had a great understanding of plants and their practical use. Even if they try to erase our history, it’s clear in our language. We have names for TONNES of herbs and plants. That just shows how conceptually advanced our understanding was.

[@hils1015]

I live in England and I really dislike all the Mahewu sold at the Zimbabwean stores. It never tastes like the one I used to enjoy growing up in Zim. I will try to make my own now that I know how.

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Thanks for watching Hil S.

[@thaboshikwambane]

Which brand is the most decent? In SA, they don’t have sorghum mageu. I want to taste sorghum mageu

[@choco-mp7oz]

❤👌😋

[@thaboshikwambane]

Wish I could buy mageu from you 😂😭🙆🏽‍♂️. I don’t want to have to go through this work but I want nice proper sorghum mageu lol But I’m too far from Zim to make buying it feasible

[@everythingispolitics6526]

Hiya - just curious can you use Fonio or sorghum to make bread/flatbread/chipattis pls?

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Yes you can.

[@everythingispolitics6526]

Do you know if this drink is available for purchase in London?

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Not sure on the availability in London.

[@thaboshikwambane]

6:29 what’s that container called in isiNdebele and other languages? How do you wash it? Might be a stupid question lol: is it dishwasher safe? 😂

[@MagrizaMadeMeCook]

Its called Ukhezo and yes you can wash it Peter Sibiya lol.

[@thaboshikwambane]

@@MagrizaMadeMeCook Interesting.. In Township Zulu, 'ukhezo' is usually used to refer to a spoon