Recipe: Eating on a Dime Kenyan Mukimo

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Kenyan 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.

Kenya Mukimo Recipe is a traditional Kikuyu dish.

It is served at all major ceremonies especially weddings, funerals and fund raisings.

You can cook Kenyan Mukimo using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Kenyan Mukimo

  1. You need 1 kg of potatoes.

  2. You need 3 cups of peas.

  3. It’s 4 of pumkin leaves.

  4. Prepare 5 of maize.

  5. You need Pinch of salt to taste.

A celebration is incomplete without this delicacy.

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE KENYA MUKIMO RECIPE ·Fresh green maize (shelled). ·Kahurura(the tender young leaves of a pumpkin).

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.

Kenyan Mukimo instructions

  1. Boil maize separately until cooked through. Boil peas until done.

  2. Add poatoes to pan add water, salt and start boiling.

  3. Once potatoes are halfway done, place the pumkin leaves ontop, cover pan and allow the pumpkin leaves tp steam until cooked.

  4. Add pumpkin leaves to blender with little water and blend.

  5. Add the boiled poatoes into the cooked maize and mash, add the boiled peas, mash until smooth.

  6. Add the blended pumpkin leaves into the potato maize & peas mash, mix until evenly combined.

  7. Serve immediately with fried chicken.

I will be giving you the secret to this tasty Kenyan Mukimo recipe right here.

I will show you how to successfully execute it.

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, Kenyan Mashed Potatoes And Greens.