We already
spoke about Kenyan games, African wildlife, but we forgot to speak about Kenyan
food…
You’ll be a
little disappointed because THE speciality of Kenya, the one you can see in
every restaurant is… Chicken & Chips!! (With some kind of differences such
as grilled chicken, fried chicken, stewed chicken, garlic chicken, and chicken
with sauce…)
It has also
a lot of Indian food (because of the Indian community who came after Kenya’s
Independency) such as samosa, currys, chicken Thikka…
But, even
if the Kenyan food isn’t really various, there are some typical meals:
- - Ugali:
It’s a kind of purée made of mais flour, milk and water. It’s compact and
sticky. You eat it with your hands, you do a small ball with it and you put it
in sauce and eat.
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| Romain eating Ugali |
- - Chapati:
it’s a mix between an Indian naan and a pancakes. It is a flat crepe (not
sweet) and it is used as bread.
- - Matoke:
A meal made from stewed bananas.
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| Matoke |
- - Ndahzi:
It is like a triangular doughnut with lemon flavour
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| Flo eating Ndahzi |
- - A
very popular dish (I forgot the name) is made of stewed red beans and mais. We
tested it when we ate at Wema Centre with the boys!
- - Sugar
cane: You need to peel it off, cut it in pieces. Then with one piece in your
mouth, you extract the sweet juice and you through the rest away.
- - The
most common and used vegetables are spinach, coleslaw, (without forgetting
potatoes, but you already noticed it). But we find also carrots, green peas,
green beans, and roots (such as manioc)
- - About
fruits, they are so many: mangos, pineapples, bananas and watermelon are the
most common but there are also passion fruits, apples, pears, kiwis, and two
new ones for us (look at the pictures). The smaller one, is almost like a
passion fruit but sweeter. We didn’t have time to look for the name of these
fruits, so we will wait for your answers!!!!
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| First unknown fruit |
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| Interior of the first unknown fruit |
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| Second unknown fruit |
There are
also other specialities with local name (Pilau, Masala…) but we didn’t try it,
so we cannot speak about it J
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