Cooking

A few times a year my grandparents will slaughter one of their cattle for beef. They, like many in rural Zimbabwe do not have electricity so most of the meat is dried.

The meat is dried by cutting it into long strips and hung over smoke usually in the kitchen. Sometimes salt is added and sometimes it is not. Traditionally made chimukuyu (dried meat or beef jerky in American English) does not have any other spices added unlike what you would buy to snack on.