How to Fall Appetizing Mokimo

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Mokimo. Mukimo Recipe: Mukimo is a meal whose origin is Central Kenya (Agikuyu community) but it's being served in hotels across the country keeping in mind of the diversity of Kenyan people. So if you have been wondering on how to prepare these meal at home,here is a simple recipe to guide you through. Tuko.co.ke News ☛ ★MUKIMO RECIPE★ Want to enjoy the delicious mukimo and beef stew with friends and family?

Mukimo is the staple food for the Kikuyu people in Central Kenya.

It is cooked all year round and in important functions like the traditional weddings, circumcision ceremonies, and dowry negotiations and so on.

Mukimo (Irio) is a Kenyan meal (predominantly from communities living around Mount Kenya) prepared by mashing potatoes and green vegetables.

You can have Mokimo using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mokimo

  1. You need 1 kg of potatoes.

  2. You need 1 bunch of pumpkin leaves.

  3. It’s 1 cup of fresh maize.

  4. Prepare 1 of onion.

  5. Prepare of Cooking oil.

  6. Prepare To taste of salt.

It may also include maize and beans.

Mukimo is mostly served as an accompaniment for meat-based stew and nyama choma.

Though originally from the central part of Kenya, Mukimo is now consumed amongst various communities in Kenya.

See recipes for Plain Mukimo, Mukimo puree, Mukimo, Mukimo ya njahi too.

Mokimo instructions

  1. Heat oil in a pot then add diced oniobs.

  2. Fry the onions until golden brown then add the chopped pumpkin leaves.

  3. Stir for one minute then add boiled fresh maize.

  4. Stir then add chopped potatoes.

  5. Stir then add a little water to cook the potatoes.

  6. Mash the potatoes.

  7. Serve with a stew of your choice and enjoy.

Mukimo is a kenyan dish which mainly originates from the kikuyu community.

It comprises of maize, potatoes, peas and salt.

Peas are sometimes normally expensive and can be substituted with kahurura (pumpkin leaves) as is regularly done in Kenyan households.

Kenyan dishes are very diverse and they vary depending with the different communities.

They have evolved and been adapted to suit the regions and cultures.