Kenya
Nyama Choma
Kenya's unofficial national dish: grilled goat or sheep meat over open fire, eaten with hands, ugali, and kachumbari
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Uganda
Explore 51 foods connected to Uganda, from everyday staples to rare local specialties.
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Obushera
Sorghum or millet flour cooked and left to sour for a day or two into a thick, tangy drink taken as breakfast or a snack.
Gulu, Uganda
Odii
Sesame ground to a coarse paste with groundnut, sometimes salted, mixed into greens and beans across northern Uganda.
Kenya
Pilau
A coastal Swahili spiced rice with meat, cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon, a festive and daily classic
Uganda
Rolex
An omelette with tomato, onion and cabbage fried on a flat pan and rolled inside a chapati — the name is a slur of rolled eggs.
Djibouti
Sambusa
ሳምቡሳ
Crispy triangular fried pastries stuffed with spiced lentils, beans or beef. The Ethiopian-Eritrean cousin of the Indian samosa, beloved at fasting tables, breakfast spreads and Ramadan iftars.
Guadeloupe
Samosa
समोसा
A crisp South Asian pastry is folded around spiced potato, peas, onion, or meat, then fried and served with chutney
Uganda
Simsim Candy
Simsim
Sesame seeds toasted and set in boiled sugar or honey, cut into small hard bars and sold in twists of plastic.
Kenya
Sukuma Wiki
Kenya's daily green: sautéed collard greens with onions and tomatoes, the most common ugali companion
Kenya
Tomato Onion Salad
Kachumbari
A Kenyan fresh tomato and onion salsa with chili and lime, the essential nyama choma companion
Uganda
Tonto
Ripe bananas ripened in a pit, pressed with spear grass and fermented with roasted sorghum into a cloudy, sour, low-alcohol beer.
Uganda
TV Chicken
Ugandan charcoal-roasted chicken sold from roadside grills and television-lit evening stalls.
Malawi
Ugali
Posho
Kenya's staple food: dense maize flour porridge cooked in boiling water, served with meats, vegetables, or stews
Kenya
Uji
A Kenyan fermented porridge from millet, sorghum, or maize flour, a daily and breakfast classic
Uganda
Waragi
Distilled spirit from banana, cassava or sugar cane, made both industrially as Uganda Waragi gin and informally as village kasese.