Tanzania

🇹🇿Tanzania

Bagia

Ground black-eyed peas or lentils spiced and deep-fried into small dense fritters, eaten with chutney.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Biryani ya Zanzibar

Zanzibari biryani layered with spiced rice, meat, potatoes and fried onions for celebrations.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Chai ya Maziwa

Tea leaves boiled directly in milk with ginger, cardamom and sugar until thick.

🇰🇪Kenya

Chapati

A Kenyan layered flatbread of wheat flour and oil, pan-fried, a daily and festive staple

🇹🇿Tanzania

Chipsi Mayai

Chips fried, then bound with beaten egg in the pan into a thick omelette and cut into wedges, served with chilli sauce.

🇰🇪Kenya

Coconut Rice

Wali wa nazi

A coastal Swahili rice cooked in coconut milk, a daily and coastal classic

🇰🇪Dar es Salaam, Kenya

Dawa

A Kenyan cocktail of vodka, honey, and lime, the national cocktail, a social and festive classic

🇹🇿Zanzibar City, Tanzania

Grilled Octopus Skewers

Mishikaki ya pweza

Octopus boiled then skewered and grilled over charcoal with lime and chilli at night markets.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kahawa

Coffee boiled with ginger in a brass pot and poured into tiny cups by vendors who walk the streets at night.

🇰🇪Kenya

Kaimati

A coastal Swahili sweet fried dough balls in syrup, a festive and street classic

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kashata

Grated coconut or roasted peanuts cooked with sugar and cardamom and set into hard slabs cut into diamonds.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kiburu

Green bananas mashed with beans and served with a little meat, a Chagga highland staple.

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Kilimanjaro Coffee

Kahawa ya Kilimanjaro

Named Tanzanian coffee from the Kilimanjaro and northern highland growing areas, sold as an origin product rather than an anonymous commodity.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kilimanjaro Lager

Kilimanjaro

Pale lager brewed in Tanzania since 1996 and sold with the slogan about not climbing the mountain.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Kisamvu

Cassava leaves pounded to a pulp and cooked long with coconut milk and groundnut until dark green and thick.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Konyagi

Clear sugarcane spirit made in Tanzania, drunk neat, with soda, or from small sachets.

🇰🇪Kenya

Kuku wa Kupaka

Chicken grilled over charcoal and repeatedly basted with a thick spiced coconut sauce until it glazes.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Maharage ya Nazi

Red kidney beans stewed in coconut milk with onion, tomato and curry powder.

🇰🇪Kenya

Maharagwe

Maharage

A Kenyan bean stew in coconut milk or tomato sauce, a daily and home classic

🇹🇿Tanzania

Makande

Whole maize kernels and kidney beans boiled long with coconut milk into a thick, plain stew.

🇰🇪Kenya

Mandazi

Mahamri

A Kenyan sweet fried dough, golden and puffy, served with chai, a daily and street classic

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Mbege

Chagga banana beer brewed from ripe bananas and finger millet, fermented for days into a cloudy, sour drink.

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Mchemsho

Meat, plantain, potato, carrot, aubergine and beans boiled together in a light spiced broth and served in the pot liquor.

🇰🇪Kenya

Mchicha

A Kenyan sautéed spinach or amaranth greens with onions and tomatoes, a daily and home classic

🇹🇿Tanzania

Mchicha

Amaranth leaves cooked down with onion, tomato, coconut milk and often groundnut paste.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Mchuzi wa Biringani

Aubergine stewed in coconut milk with tomato, onion, garlic and curry spices until it collapses.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Mchuzi wa Samaki

Fish simmered in a coconut milk curry with tomato, tamarind, garlic and curry spices.

🇰🇪Kenya

Mishkaki

A coastal Swahili grilled marinated meat skewer, a street and daily classic

🇹🇿Tanzania

Mishkaki ya Tanzania

Tanzanian marinated meat skewers grilled over charcoal and sold from evening stalls.

🇹🇿Zanzibar City, Tanzania

Mkate wa Kumimina

Zanzibari rice bread of soaked ground rice, coconut milk and cardamom, poured into a pan and baked into a soft round.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Mlenda

Okra or jute leaves cooked down into a deliberately slippery green relish eaten with ugali.

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Mtori

Green bananas boiled with beef and mashed into a thick soup, eaten by Chagga households for breakfast.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Mtwara Cashews

Korosho

Cashews grown in the southern Mtwara and Lindi regions, roasted in the shell and sold hot by the bagful.

🇹🇿Tanzania

Ndizi Kaanga

Ripe or half-ripe bananas sliced and fried until the edges caramelise, eaten as a side or a snack.

🇹🇿Arusha, Tanzania

Ndizi na Nyama

Green cooking bananas stewed with beef in a coconut and tomato broth until the banana thickens the sauce.

🇰🇪Kenya

Nyama Choma

Kenya's unofficial national dish: grilled goat or sheep meat over open fire, eaten with hands, ugali, and kachumbari