Tripe Stew · Township Pot
Mogodu
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Mogodu is so tied to the start of the week that 'Mogodu Monday' is a standing tradition at many township eateries and homes.
Cleaned tripe, and often ox or sheep intestines, slow-simmered for hours with onion, tomato and stock until richly tender, traditionally cooked in huge pots over open fires in townships. It's ladled out with pap or a fermented sorghum porridge called ting.
Why it's made this way: Once dismissed as a 'poor black food' cut under apartheid-era hierarchies, mogodu has re-emerged as a proud symbol of township cuisine, now even reinterpreted by contemporary South African chefs.
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