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This is a mopane bite.
It’s actually a mopane worm, it’s very nice, very delicious and very nutritious.
Let’s have a taste. Mmhmm. You have tried the potato chips, you have
tried the chickens, you have tried the sushi. How about trying something much
more nutritious and delicious? Try the mopane worm. So, the mopane worm is a nutritious meal,
it can be part of a nutritious meal. It can be a snack; you can eat it as relish
and you can put it in your smoothie as well. A mopane worm are very high in protein, they are
very high in fiber and very high in good fats. So, it is a food source that you would want
to have on your plate instead of other meats that probably have GMO’s which mopane worms do not
have because they are one hundred percent organic.
It is like a wonderful flavour
exploding in your mouth. It’s really quite tasty.
I’ve come to realise that people can’t tell the difference; whether it’s a worm or a caterpillar.
But when I try to explain to them that worms actually eat dead things and this is a
caterpillar that actually feeds on mopane leaves. So, that sparks something in them to
take away that this is a caterpillar. I think that people are also looking
for an adventure, for some food that they’ve never tasted before.
“There’s a caterpillar on my plate. This is adventurous, I want to
try it, I want to put it in my mouth.” In order to make mopane worm much
more appealing to a wider audience. What we have done is, we have spiced
them with flavours that people are familiar with like your peri-peri.
We have a spiced version of peri-peri, we have chutney and barbeque so that we
found is very enticing to people because most people do not know what they taste like.
So, when you try to explain them that, “No, it tastes a bit like peri-peri.”
They are familiar with that and then they take it and eat it.
Now I’m going to show you how we spice the mopane worm.
Come with me into my kitchen. First things first, hygiene is very important.
We’re going to put on our hairnet, make sure that our hair is nicely tucked in.
Nice and clean. And then when I come over here, I
come and see what I have for you. So, this is what it looks like
when the mopane worms come to us. You can actually tell how good the
mopane worm is from the smell of it. And the size, normally is the dead
giveaway of when the harvest was done.
So, you can tell by these little ones, they
are smaller than the summer harvest. You can tell that they’re from April.
They’ll be very nutritious, very delicious. They’ve been soaked in brine and
left to dry under the African sun. No additives, one hundred percent
organic, nutritious, delicious. So, we’re going to spice this up
and make it ready for you to eat. Now that we’ve poured them into this little
container here, we’re just going to have a look through it to see if there are any
twigs or things that shouldn’t be in here. Before we move to the next process.
We’re going to give them a good bath. So, to get rid of the excess salt that
we’ve used to preserve the mopani. We’re going to soak them in water and wash them.
Okay, so now we’re going to drain the water out. The mopane worms are nice and ready. Here are our little friends.
Nice and soft.
Ready to go get some spices. We’re going to put them in here and we have the special blend of organic
spices that should be prepared for the mopane. Okay, so now, the oven is
nice and toasty and ready. And we’re going to put them in the
oven where they’re going to slow roast for some time to make sure that
they are nice and crispy and tasty. From Marlboro in Johannesburg to
the Banting Market in Pretoria. It’s time for the flavour taste, it’s time to see
what the public thinks of these roasted mopani worms that Phuti calls nutritious and delicious.
So, what are the flavours that are in here? This one is peri-peri and this one is barbeque.
Barbeque. Yes.
Barbeque, ready to snack,
very nutritious and delicious. This actually tastes very good.
Tastes like barbequed meat. Originally, I’m from Zimbabwe.
So, mopane worms are a part of our culture. We eat them as a special meal. So, they’re put as
relish, then you put the peri-peri then you can have them with a main dish like pap.
We call it Sadza. So, that’s where I know them from.
The taste is actually really fantastic. And I’m a person who’s quite
scared of insects so it kind of like grossed me out the first time I saw it.
But I’m really enjoying it and I’m about to get myself a packet as well.
I love it. Authentic, delicious taste.
I will highly recommend it. Ancient African wisdom once
again provides us a sustainable, highly nutritious meal served in delicious bite
sized portions that we know as mopane worms..
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