Goat and beef are the 2 most common forms of nyama choma, but chicken kuku choma and fish samaki choma are also valid choices. Fat and the grizzle from the meat is the choice part of the animal, and is often consumed with a quick dip into a pile of salt for extra flavoring! Find the best places to eat nyama choma in Nairobi right here. Matoke is originally a dish from Uganda, though it is widely available and popular in Kenya as well. Plantain bananas are cooked up in a pot with some oil, tomatoes, onions, garlic, chilies, meat optional , and lemon juice.
The bananas are cooked until they become soft and begin to form a thick sauce with the other ingredients. The result is a delicious dish that is reminiscent of boiled potatoes in sauce and excellent to eat with rice, ugali, or a chapati.
Chapatis in Kenya can trace their origin from the influence of the Indian population. Kenyan style chapatis are made with a flour dough that is wound into a coil before being rolled into a flat round circle. The dough is then fried on a skillet accompanied by plenty of oil so it becomes crispy on the edges but remains moist and doughy on the interior.
Chapatis can be considered more of a special form of Kenyan food , a treat to eat. Chapatis go well with fried cabbage, beans, or even just rolled up with a cup of tea!
The simple formula of diced tomatoes, onions, chili peppers, cilantro, and sometimes avocado, is a natural power combination of vegetables that cultures all the way from Mexico to Kenya have discovered. Kenyans enjoy kachumbari as a garnish, a side salad that accompanies things like nyama choma or beans.
There are multiple forms of what is commonly known as bajias. The Kenyan variety sort of borrowed from India is normally what can be described as glorious spruced-up plate of awesome french fries chips.
Potatoes are sliced up and battered with seasoning, deep fried, and served with a Kenyan tomato salsa that is worth boasting about. As one of my own personal favorites, I even picked this dish link here for an entire small article! Tomato sauce, chili sauce, herbs, cilantro, and whatever else the chef decides are all added to the fries, coating them in a luscious sauce that will have you licking your fingers and the plate!
It all begins with a plate of famous Kenyan chips that are placed in a frying pan before being covered in a generous amount of beaten egg and cooked through.
They can be smelled from a kilometer down the street, that lovely familiar scent of a blob of deep frying dough. Mutura is the real Kenyan sausage, a protein rich meaty snack that could be the envy of every beer drinker. Goat intestine wrappers are stuffed full of the alluring combination of ground meat parts and goat blood.
The sausage is boiled until it is almost cooked through and then thrown on the grill to dehydrate the meat and give it that sensational smoky taste. If you are searching for that truly authentic Kenyan food street meat experience, mutura will go above and beyond your expectation!
Some restaurants choose to grill their burgers while others choose to deep fry their burgers, adding that extra grease to the meat for super calorie deliciousness.
One of the most popular on-the-go snacks in Kenya is a cob of roasted maize. As the maize roasts, some kernels pop like popcorn while others blacken to a crunchy crisp. Some street stall vendors will supply a chili lime salt garnish for the grilled maize. Another Indian snack turned Kenyan food are samosas — small triangular pockets of spiced meat or vegetables put in a pastry wrapper and deep fried to a golden brown. These golden snacks are available everywhere from sit down restaurants to Nairobi street food pushcarts.
Kenyan coffee is one of the more famous varieties on earth, yet it is tea that is the popular hot drink of choice for many locals. Kenyan tea is brewed dark, mixed with plenty of whole fat milk, and sweetened up with a few heaping tablespoons of sugar. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
We are dining at Jambo Cafe in Santa Fe. The smells walking in stsrted my saluva glands. The meal of Lamy pili pili was a bit exotic but immedistely accessible. If yoy have a chance eat at Jambo Cafe. We are looking for viable projects in need of capital injection through loans or direct investment funding. This will be the first ever Kenya tradition food tasting event. Our Local hosts will prepare different cuisines that the guest will choose from.
No Entry without Mask. Hey… Thanks for publishing this. But as a kikuyu, the food is not called irio thats the general word for food as a whole the dish is called mukimo amd what you ate is not the authentic one. It is often made with githeri made with either beans and corn, black beans and corn or any other beans and corn mashed together with thabai stinging nettle or kahurura pumpkin leaves and potatoes or green or sweet banana or sweet potato.
When I lived in Kenya we ate many of the things on this list. I often enjoyed irio, ugali, stew, chapatis, samosas, chai, roasted maize, and maandazi. I have made some of these for friends to experience a little flavor of Kenya. I have seen that every person wants to express their feelings but they are not able to express their feelings properly in words but the content you have written in your post is very beautiful, it seems that you have expressed your feelings Has expressed.
Hi, you are a person who writes a very beautiful post, in the same way, you keep writing new posts in your life, our best wishes are with you. Thank you so much for this. I wanted ideas on what to make for lunch!! It is a win for nyama choma or pilau. My son loves pilau!! Boiled maize meal, boiled maize with boiled beans, fried Irish potatoes and roast meat. Great post. Really nice food here. My daughter and I stayed with a Kenyan family in a small town. Sukumu wiki was delicious, probably my favorite dish.
ANd at breakfast, the tea with hot milk and sugar, along with slices of bread and perhaps a boiled egg, was a wonderful breakfast. For lunch we often bought grilled maize from a street vender. Any tips would be graciously received. Find it on kulanini. There are detailed reviews on various foods, snacks and restaurants here in Kenya especially Nairobi. Karibu Kenya. I like this information especially ugali. You should increase the number of dishes to accomodate all available.
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I would say Kenya has very nice Ugali compared to the rest of the countries. You must have enjoyed your trip there huh? Great article but just some additional comments. Chips Mayai is definitely not a Kenyan staple. I agree with you Sienna, am a Kenyan living in Kenya for over 30 year, but I only got to hear of and eat chips Mayai in Tanzania.
I always felt there was something Kenyan about you. Anyway we have pathetic foods, can you do a Nigerian food video? So when you say nyama choma meat, you are saying roasted meat meat. Also, this site says that it is Kenyan food. Burgers are not Kenyan.
Now, Ugali, chicken soup and sukuma wiki is definitely a dish every Kenyan will identify with. Accurate information, makes me wanna eat right now. Sounds simple, but looks delicious. Just got back from 20 days in Kenya and Tanzania. I ate well and lost 8 lbs. You included all the dishes I loved.
Thank you. Wow i love this.. Iam doing a research on kenyan food recipes that is yet to be aired in one of the Kenyan TV station Please kindly send me your contacts. I have had all of the foods listed here and you are so right. Upon my return to America, I continue to make them. Hey, Mark Wiens, How are you? Thank you for excellent post. A nice piece there…I love this as a chef am proud to see you liking our cuisine. Just to add another version of Githeri is Muthokoi pounded corn to remove the outer layer then boil it with beans till tender, seasonoing n serve Just yummy….
Reading this list made me miss all these dishes so much it almost makes me want to go back and visit my family. Love the list and would love to see more. It would be much appreciated if you help me with this. Thank you and looking forward to your reply soon. Your comment:the list comprises of amazing dishes. This Kenyan dishes can find a place in the world. This is just awesome.
Add more like cassava,sweet potatoes,arrow roots etc.. Chapatti, pulao, chai, samosa, marsala chips, banjo etc are Indian. I love irio, matoke, mutura and masala chips. Your comment:I am really greatful to visit this site, I have really learnt a lot from you guys about the food that are cooked in Kenya some of which I normally interact with.
Some food like wali wa mnazi I think I need to taste them when I will be visiting the coast next month. Love this! Have just come back to Australia from Kenya and am planning on doing a Kenyan dinner party to raise some money for a project I started over there! You greatly did a great research on Kenyan food. They all are nice, am in Kenya and am glad that have known some funny delicacies in the coast.
My daughter is doing a Cultural Festival for her school. We picked Kenya could you send me a few recipes that children would enjoy. It all looks very good. Kenyan stew, sukuma wiki, Mandazi, chapati, Ugali Thank. Great idea. But some photos are poorly done. One includes a half eaten meal, and so not too delectable. Love this page. I have a new daughter-in-law from Kenya. She will live here in America and can hopefully take my son to Nairobi to meet her family.
But she has cooked a few Kenyan foods and our family has loved them. Such a mix of cultures happening now. Love it! Hi, maybe you can help me find a Kenyan recipe I lost! I found it online, made it once and never found the recipe again…anywhere…. It was a crock pot stew like affair that maybe included chicken.
But it was the sauce that was so new to me! Hi Mark, am with Mwaura on this, am a Kenyan and i can say you have described the foods so well. You should consider writing it on a book, i know i would buy it. Good job. Your comment: am a kenyan and my favourites are fish cooked Kisumu style and Managu — some traditional meal fermented with milk fat… the list is endless. Bonjour,nous une societe marocain revendeur divers produit ,fruit,legum,huil argan,sauce tomat,conserves….
What a good food indeed with all it comprise. Thanks for the details of your research. Hey Jamie, glad you enjoy visiting Kenya and that you love nyama choma too. Do you know how the sweet peas were prepared or served, or do you happen to have a photo? I have just found out the bean is dengu or mung bean, just worked so well with the other flavours, now to try making my own…. One of my best friends is from Honduras, and my new daughter-in-law, is from Kenya.
A lot of basic dishes are very similar! Thank you thank you thank you. I am a Kenyan living in US and my mouth just watered just looking at the pictures. I was looking for something to cook for some American friends coming to visit me. This is nice. The pictures are great. I know what to cook now.
Hey Njoki, great to hear from you, glad this post about Kenyan food has given you some ideas about what to cook. Hope you have fun and enjoy! I am in UAE and the Mediterranean cuisine is really good to. Absolutely fantastic, you forgot viazi karai with the ukwaju tamarind sauce, different varieties of fish, kuku kienyeji. It makes me miss Kenya so much!
Thank you for posting this! I love your website! I am a newer blogger. So glad I found you! Great blog, keep it up.
Awesome list!! Good job Mark for this great article. I am pure vegetarian indian. I will be in mombasa shortly for more than a year.
Will I get there pure vegetarian dishes or will I get veg raw-materials so that I can cook something for me? How is food there? Cheaper, reasonable or costly? Food is great, with a mixture of local, Middle Eastern, and Indian dishes available, and prices are affordable — though maybe not as cheap as in India. All the best. Ahhh I love all this food and miss it all massivley.
Kenya sure does have some great food. Nyama Choma is a fav with sukuma and chapati! Great blog. I have spent the last few hours reading about your food adventures though I initially came here to learn more about living in Bangkok :. I love food and I love Kenyan food a lot, especially Ugali taken with spicy beef stew and kale. Your pictures are tantalizing to say the least…. The Kenyan diet also includes tea, especially when served with milk and sugar.
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We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. The hostess then serves everyone with a portion of dinner. An average Kenyan household generally eats ugali na sukuma wiki or chapati na sukuma wiki. Ugali is a stiff porridge reminds me of play dough made out of maize meal white corn meal.
Sukuma wiki is similar to collard greens usually boiled with some tomatoes and onions. Chapatis are a flat round bread on the idea of a thick tortilla. These two meals, ugali na sukuma wiki and chapati na sukuma wiki, do not require any silverware.
You simply use the ugali or chapati to pick up the sukuma wiki and then you put it in your mouth to eat it. After dinner a beverage is served. Most often it is tea made with milk and sugar. Other times you may be served coffee or just water.
If there is, it is usually some fruit like bananas, papaya, mango, or maybe a pineapple. When dinner is completed the hostess makes her rounds through the dinner guests again with the water pitcher and bowl so they can wash their hands again. There are other main dishes served in Kenya. There are potatoes with rice, beans legumes with tomatoes, onions, carrots, potatoes, corn, cabbage and other vegetables, or just cabbage with carrots, onions, and rice this is served with chapati. What you have written here is a vegetarian diet!
Yes, meat is served in Kenya, but not often. It is expensive to buy and generally if meat is served that means that the family probably slaughtered one of their chickens, goats, or cows. If a special guest is coming for dinner a chicken will be slaughtered or the guest is extra special a goat, or even a cow, is the main course. Meat is eaten quite frequently. Forgot to mention about fish at the coast and western Kenya.
A lot of the culture articles were written over 20 years ago. At that time, I was teaching in a small village in western Kenya. I ate a lot of meals with my colleagues and rarely saw they eat meat. Most of the time they ate ugali na sukuma wiki. That is why I have the comment boxes, so people can give us updates.
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