Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, soft maize/peas githeri. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Githeri is a stable food in East Africa and consist of mainly boiled maize and beans that can be eaten in different ways. It can be made into a stew, mixed. Githeri is widely eaten in Kenya, there are different ways of cooking it, but my take is very simple yet very delicious, this dish can be eaten as.
Soft maize/peas githeri is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Soft maize/peas githeri is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have soft maize/peas githeri using 2 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Soft maize/peas githeri:
- Get 1/2 kg Green soft maize
- Take 1/2 kg Green ripe garden peas
Additions such as tomatoes, onions, potatoes, green peas, cabbage or kales, meat and any other. Used to make maize flour, mixed with beans to make githeri or with cow peas for muthokoi, can be eaten as roasted or boiled maize whole on cob, livestock feed, corn oil. Western Kenya, Lake region, South Rift, Meru and Central. Githeri - a traditional Kenyan one-pot meal dish made out of corn and beans seasoned with curry powder and white pepper OR you can Or just add salt to the boiled maize and beans.
Instructions to make Soft maize/peas githeri:
- Remove the maize from the cobs and the peas from the pods respectively.
- Winnow each of them separately to remove the chuff/ offtypes.
- Put 2 litres in a pot and your power source and heat it to boil.
- Add your mixture of maize and peas into the boiling water in the pot and cover it to cook.allow it to cook for about 1½hrs. During this time keep on looking at the level of water in case it drains so quickly you can top up.
- After one hour check weather your githeri is ready by trying to press the peas. If they smash with alot of ease your githeri is ready.
- Fry it with a few tomatoes and it will be ready for serving. Enjoy.
Do you just put in a soft tortilla like a burrito? 🙂 Thanks for sharing! Githeri (Gĩtheri), also called muthere or mutheri, is a Kenyan traditional meal of maize and legumes, mostly beans of any type mixed and boiled together. The maize and beans are mixed together in a sufuria or pot, water is then added and the mixture boiled until the food is cooked and ready to eat. This dish is a basic maize (corn) and bean stew and it originated in the Kikuyu tribe in Africa. It is a great source of protein. dried whole kernel corn (maize); rinsed in cold water. dried beans (kidney beans or similar); soaked in cold water for a few hours, rinsed.
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