Dinner
Nyama Choma
Goat or beef rubbed with salt and grilled slowly over low coals for an hour or more, then chopped on a board and…
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Grilled meat over charcoal with greens and ugali. 7 Kenyan recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 7 recipes cover 3 of the site’s categories, among them 5 dinners, 1 dessert and 1 healthy dish. Of these, one is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 2, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. All of them are marked easy.
As written, 5 are vegetarian, 3 vegan, 6 gluten-free and 4 dairy-free.
Kenyan recipes — all 7 recipes
Side dish
Ugali and Sukuma Wiki
Stiff maize meal cooked until it pulls away from the pan, served with collard greens fried with onion and tomato…
Side dish
Kachumbari
Kenya’s everyday salad: tomato, onion and chilli with lime and coriander, salted and drained so it stays crisp…
Desserts
Mandazi
Cardamom and coconut milk in a soft fried triangle, sweet enough for morning and not much more. Kenya's doughnut.
Dinner
Githeri
A Kenyan stew of maize and beans simmered with tomato, onion, potato and carrot. A cheap, filling, everyday dish of…
Dinner
Mchuzi wa Maharage
A Kenyan stew of red kidney beans simmered with onion, tomato, garlic and coriander until thick and savoury.
Side dish
Mukimo
A Kenyan mash of potatoes, peas and sweetcorn with greens, mashed together and seasoned with salt and pepper.