How to Tips Perfect Mukimo

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

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

Mukimo is a popular Kenyan one-pot dish consisting of potatoes, corn, beans, peas, and greens that are cooked in water with some salt, then mashed into a purée.

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

You can have Mukimo using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mukimo

1. Prepare 4 of unripe peeled bananas.

2. It’s 5 of potatoes peeled.

3. It’s 1 cup of green peas and soft maize mixed.

4. Prepare 1 of red onions and a bunch of spring onions.

5. You need 1 bunch of pumpkin leaves.

6. It’s to taste of Salt.

7. It’s 1 of tblspn cooking oil.

8. It’s 1 bunch of coriander.

9. You need 2 cups of water.

My friend Susan from Nairobi, Kenya taught me how to prepare this traditional Kikuyu dish that's served at all her major ceremonies in her homeland.

It is a side dish made by mashing beans, corn, potatoes.

Mukimo can be served with different accompaniments, and the best stew for mukimo is beef stew.

Mukimo is one of the staple dishes of the Kikuyu community in Kenya.

Mukimo step by step

1. Boil the mixture of maize and peas for about 3 minutes and set a side.

2. Chop your onions, in a cooking pot add cooking oil, then on heat and then add red onions followed by spring onions, let them fry till golden brown.

3. Add potatoes and banana fry shortly.

4. Add salt, then the mixture of maize and peas, mix well as it fry, then add water and cover. Let it boil for about 10mins till its almost ready.

5. Chop and Add pumpkin leaves, cover and let it continue boiling until its ready.

6. Mash the meal and its ready to serve with any of your favourite accompaniment. Garnish with the coriander 😋😄.

7. For me I served with vegetables soup (the recipe I published too you can check), it was 👌.

It consists of green maize, potatoes, green peas and kahurura (pumpkin leaves) all mashed together.

There are many variations of mukimo recipe.

Some people use spinach as a substitute for the pumpkin leaves or beans to substitute for the green peas.

Mukimo is a Kenyan mashed potato dish that incorporates various other ingredients to your ordinary mash, elevating it both in flavour and nutrition and giving it its signatory vivid green colour.

There are very many versions of this dish.