Recipe: Eating on a Dime Mukimo #festivedish

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Mukimo #festivedish Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Mukimo #festivedish. 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 #festivedish using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mukimo #festivedish

1. It’s 1 kg of potatoes.

2. You need 3 bunches of pumpkin leaves.

3. Prepare 1 bunch of spring onion.

4. It’s 250 g of boiled maize.

5. Prepare 250 g of boiled peas.

6. You need to taste of Salt.

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 #festivedish instructions

1. Fry the spring onion in a sufuria.

2. Add in the potatoes and stir. Slightly more potatoes are used in the image..

3. Add water and cover for a few minutes..

4. Add in the chopped pumpkin leaves. Also add in the salt and 1tbsp of baking powder. The later softens the leaves..

5. Add in the maize and the peas after a few minutes..

6. When the water is all dry, remove from fire and mash..

7. Can be served with a variety of stews. I opted for stewed chicken.

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.