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East African Cooking & Recipes

Common Ingredients for Traditional East African Food
(where available)

Vegetables
Yams
Okra
Watermelon
Cassava
Groundnuts
Black-eyed Peas
Cabbage
Maize - corn
Groundnuts
Sweet Potatoes

Meats
Chicken
Pork
Beef
Fish of local varieties

Spices
Garlic
Melegueta pepper - West African (substitute use cardamon)
cloves
black peppercorns
cardamom
nutmeg
turmeric
pilau mix
curry powder

Other
Lemons
Rice

East African Recipes

East African Sweet Pea Soup

East African chapati

Swahili peanut kashata

Kenya

How a Dinner is Served in Kenya

Ugali - Cornmeal Porridge - The national dish of Kenya

Sukuma Wiki - Collard Greens

Steak and Irio

Pilau rice with beef stew

Kuku na Nazi (Chicken with coconut milk)

Maharagwe (Spiced red beans in coconut milk)

Mtuza wa Samaki (Baked curried fish)

Plantains in Coconut Milk

Vegetable Curry

Chicken Tika

More recipes from Kenya

Tanzania

How a Dinner is Served in Tanzania

Tanzanian Veggie Soup

Beans with Coconut and Cilantro - a vegetarian dish

Ndizi Na Nyama - Banana curry with Beef

Kuku Wa Kupaka - Chicken in Coconut

Samaki Wa Nazi - Fish with chili and coconut

Maharaga Ya Naz - White Beans in coconut milk

Kabichi - Stir fried Cabbage with pepper

Ugali - Maze Pudding

Uganda

Zarina's smoked fish stew

Zarina's sim-sim cookies

Ugandan ginger tea

Zanzibar

How You Can Present a Zanzibar Dinner

Beans and Groundnut Relish

Supu Ya Kuku - Chicken Soup

Zahn Ze Bar - Zanzibar Duck

M'Chuzi wa Nyama- Curry of Beef Zanzibar

Mango Tartlets with Lime Curd and Tropical Nut Crust

Recommended Book
	Cooking the East African Way (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - UK by Bertha Vining Montgomery, Constance R. Nabwire An Introduction to the Food and Customs of East Africa; Completely revised and updated, the Easy Menu Cookbooks series serves up tantalising recipes for countless dishes.