Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, soft maize/peas githeri. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Remove the maize from the cobs and the peas from the pods respectively. Winnow each of them separately to remove the chuff/ offtypes. Githeri is a stable food in East Africa and consist of mainly boiled maize and beans that can be eaten in different ways.
Soft maize/peas githeri is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Soft maize/peas githeri is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Make ready 1/2 kg Green soft maize
- Get 1/2 kg Green ripe garden peas
Githeri is native to East Kenya in particular and Africa as a whole - a one-pot meal, traditional made Githeri - a traditional Kenyan one-pot meal dish made out of corn and beans seasoned with curry powder This looks fantastic! Do you just put in a soft tortilla like a burrito? 🙂 Thanks for sharing! Cook equal quantities of maize and beans in water for several hours until soft. Githeri is a basic maize (corn) and beans stew, traditional among the Kikuyu people of Kenya.
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.
Not only are these two eaten together, they are often intercropped. (grown together) in the. 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. Maize is enjoyed in githeri and can be grounded to make flour used for ugali. Traditional vegetables, sauces, and different types of meats are all great accompaniments to Kenyan staple foods.
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