Recipe: Eating on a Dime Mokimo

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Recipe: Eating on a Dime Mokimo Delicious, fresh and tasty.

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 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mokimo

  1. Prepare 1 kg of potatoes.

  2. It’s of Pumpkin leaves, spinach and terere.

  3. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of mixture of maize and beans.

  4. Prepare 1 of large red onion.

  5. You need Bunch of spring onions.

  6. It’s to taste of Salt.

  7. It’s of Oil and butter/margarine.

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. Peel the potatoes and bring to a boil. Do not overcook..

  2. Steam the vegetables and blend.

  3. Fry the onions(red and spring)in the oil and butter till they are golden brown.

  4. Pour the mixture of maize and beans, blended vegetables and fried onions in the potatoes and heat for a while then remove and mash them..

  5. Serve with any stew or eat plain.

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.