Recipe: To Try At Home Green mukimo

Recipe: To Try At Home Green mukimo Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Green mukimo. Mukimo is a staple food for the Kikuyu people in Central Kenya. It's made from mashed potatoes, pumpkin leaves and corn and/or beans. The green color may have been enhanced by food color.

So of course I had to try to make it myself once we got back to Arusha.

Great recipe for Green grams mukimo.

I love good food, well cooked, but I hardly cook since I live alone.

You can cook Green mukimo using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Green mukimo

1. You need 4 of green maize.

2. You need 10 pieces of potatoes.

3. Prepare 1 of banches spinach.

4. Prepare to taste of Salt.

But on rare occasions when I feel a craving, I do a great meal.

Today I craved mukimo ya ndengu.

I just love how it tastes.

Unlike peas which somehow adds some sweetener, Ndengu has a divine.

Green mukimo step by step

1. Boil maize until ready.

2. Peel potatoes and clean them.

3. When maize are cooked, add in potatoes.

4. While the maize and potatoes are cooking, clean spinanch, blanch and blend them.

5. If the potatoes are cooked drain excess water. add in blended spinanch and salt and mash until smooth. Serve with desired accompaniment.

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.

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.

Bring the maize and beans/ peas to boil in a sufuria.