I’m Xhosa, isidovela is a meal where rice is cooked with potatoes in the same pot. You mix it until it kinda looks like pap. You also have to add Spice for rice or Rajah to make it yellow.
A meal that is generally cooked on Sundays in many households across Mzansi.
It is coined as 7 colours because it comprises a lot of colourful ingredients; a mix of vegetables, starch and meat that make up various colours.
I went home last weekend and my highlight was the 7 colours oledi cooked.