This recipe involves cooking green grams 9ndengu) in an instant pot. It is the same even for stovetop cooking. This recipe is Swahili(African) although it is heavily influenced by Indian cuisine. Green gram Beans in Kenya are known as ndengu or pojo in Tanzania. Green grams(ndengu) are not just your average legumes or beans, they are…
This post is an easy-to-follow Kenyan matoke recipe, using as few as possible and readily available ingredients, nutritional information, and taste profile discussed. Matoke is a special species of bananas called the East African Highland Bananas. This dish is high in starch, and low in sugar, compared to plantain. Matoke is not plantain If you get…
Chips Mayai is basically a french fries omelet. It is as simple as beating eggs, mixing in french fries and any vegetables or aromatics you desire, and cooking everything like you would a normal omelet. In this post, we will do exactly that but stepwise. Chips mayai in Tanzania is also known as zege and it is…
Whether you are just curious or want meal ideas for the Christmas holidays, this post is exactly geared towards that. It features the 6 main and popular dishes served in the Kenyan Christmas holidays Isn’t it too early for Christmas meals? Yeah right, I mean it’s late November. The real question is; Isn’t it too…
Ugali is the starch of choice in Kenya while mala is fermented milk (buttermilk). Both of these foods are traditional to most ethnic groups, this post will overview how ugali mala is still relevant and a perfect combo centuries later. Ugali and mala is probably the simplest dish you can whip up, if you thought ugali mayai…
Learn how to make your matumbo, soft and tasty to accompany any dish. Matumbo is mostly the stomach muscle lining and intestines of cows and goats. So matumbo is not essentially tripe, as tripe is the stomach lining alone. Matumbo is the overall mixture of tripe and intestines, and soft organs Forget about those fancy overpriced…
Whole grain ugali is commonly known as posho mill ugali or in Swahili, ugali wa kisiagi. It is common in upcountry regions where posho mills conveniently grace every locality. And let’s not forget its affinity for maize-growing regions like Western Kenya, Nyanza, and the Rift Valley. Truly, grainy heaven. So essentially, whole grain ugali is made from whole grain maize…
Ah smocha again, Kenyan street food at its best. Smocha is a mini-burrito consisting of a smokie with kachumbari all wrapped with a chapati. The chapati acts like a tortilla wrap, kachumbari is a salsa salad, and the smokie is a smoked sausage. Let’s rip the band-aid off, street foods made at home will never…
Mandazi Bites, also known as mini mandazis are sweet, soft, and doughy treats that you can’t have enough of, golden brown on the exterior, and slightly dense, but smooth, fluffy, and pillow-ey on the inside like clouds. These delicious bites are mostly prepacked and sold as a snack in Kenyan supermarkets by almost every major commercial…
Brown ugali is known as ugali wa wimbi, or ugali wa mtama. Which translates to; sorghum ugali, and millet ugali. Before the Portuguese introduced maize on the East African coast; In the 16th Century, sorghum and millet were our go-to grains. While drought-resistant, sorghum, and millet offered low yields, so maize replaced them as it offered higher…