Dikgobe

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| alternate_name = Izinkobe in Zulu

| country = Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho

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| main_ingredient = samp, beans

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Dikgobe, also known as izinkobe, is a South African word for samp and beans cooked together.{{cite book | title = Words of Batswana: Letters to Mahoko a Becwana, 1883-1896 | author= Part Themba Mgadla, Stephen Volz |publisher = Van Riebeeck Society |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6I1zAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Dikgobe%22| date = 2006 | page = 71| isbn = 9780958513418 | access-date = 29 May 2015 }}{{cite web|last1=enjolinfam|title=South African Samp and Beans (Umngqusho)|url=http://www.food.com/recipe/south-african-samp-and-beans-umngqusho-309678|website=Food.com|access-date=1 April 2015}}{{cite book|last1=Management|first1=Society for Range|title=Trail boss's cowboy cookbook : containing recipes from throughout the West and around the world.|date=1985|publisher=Society for Range Management|location=[Denver]|isbn=0960369260|page=91|edition=3rd print.}} The dish is commonly served at Setswana celebrations of life, such as marriage, and those marking death, the passage out of life. For funerals, dikgobe is one of the two acceptable starches to be served, with sorghum as the other.{{cite book | title = Food, Cuisine, and Cultural Competency for Culinary, Hospitality, and Nutrition Professionals | author= Sari Edelstein |publisher = Jones & Bartlett Learning |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lj0CeaIIETkC&dq=%22Dikgobe%22&pg=PA358 | date = 2009 | page = 358 | isbn = 9780763759650 | access-date = 29 May 2015 }}