How to Diet Delicious Mukimo

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Mukimo. Mukimo (Irio) is a Kenyan meal (predominantly from communities living around Mount Kenya) prepared by mashing potatoes and green vegetables. It may also include maize and beans. Mukimo is mostly served as an accompaniment for meat-based stew and nyama choma.

The name of the dish is derived from the word kima, meaning to mash Mukimo can be served with different accompaniments, and the best stew for mukimo is beef stew.

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.

You can have Mukimo using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mukimo

  1. It’s 1 kg of njugu, boiled.

  2. It’s 2 kg of potatoes, peeled and washed.

  3. You need of Oil.

  4. Prepare of Onion.

  5. Prepare of Tomatoes.

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.

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

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

Mukimo step by step

  1. Mix the potatoes and the njugu in a pot of water and bring to boil..

  2. Once the potatoes are cooked, mash them together till they blend..

  3. In another pot, add oil and onion..

  4. Allow to cook till golden brown..

  5. Add the tomatoes and allow to cook..

  6. Add the mashed ingredients and continue to mash..

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.

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 is tasteless, you will need salt and spiced soup for you to make head or tail of what eating.