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Since Ramadan is around the corner I’m going to do a thread on my favourite Swahili dishes 
1) Vitumbua - coconut rice mini pancakes
2) Matobosha- dumplings cooked in a sweet coconut milk sauce with cardamon
3) Kaimati - fried dumpling with a sugar and cardamom coating
4) Chapati and maharagwe - red kidney bean stew with flatbread
5) Biriyani - this doesn’t even need any further explanation other than…
Swahili biriyani >>> Asian biriyani
Swahili biriyani >>> Asian biriyani
6) Visheti/kokoto - crunchy fried pieces of dough coated in sugar and cardamon
7) Mkate wa sinia - rice and coconut cake
8) Mkate wa nyama - seasoned meat in a flatbread
9) Bhajia za kunde - deep fried black eyed pea snack, accompanied with either a coconut chilli or tamarind chilli.
10) Viazi za karai - potatoes in gram flour batter and chilli masala inside. Accompanied by a tamarind sauce.
11) Tambi - vermicelli cooked in sweetened coconut milk, ghee and cardamon.
12) Viazi vya nazi - potatoes in a coconut milk curried meat stew
13) Mahambri/mandaazi - on its own, with chai or with mbaazi. This sweet bread right here is very versatile ♡
14) Donasi - doughnuts sprinkled with icing sugar (personal favourite)
15) Mitai - mini diamond shaped doughnuts with a sugar and cardamom coating.
16) Mhogo - fried cassava with chilli masala, lime and tamarind
17) Wali wa pilau - 
18) Labania za kopa - milk fudge shaped as a heart
19) Ndizi za tamu - Plantain cooked in a sweet cardamom infused coconut milk sauce
20) Mchuzi wa nazi - coconut curry
This is by far the most elite mchuzi that exists.
This is by far the most elite mchuzi that exists.
21) Katlesi - mince meat in a potato patty
22) Boko boko/hareesa- This here is a traditional Swahili coastal dish made from wheat and shredded meat. Then topped with butter/ghee and sugar
23) Mkate wa mayai - sponge cake infused with cardamom.
This cake right here paired with chai ya maziwa
This cake right here paired with chai ya maziwa
24) Mbaazi paired with mahambri - an elite breakfast
25) Babu kachri - thick tangy potato gravy sprinkled with crushed potato crisps and crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour.
the best snack to come out of Mombasa
the best snack to come out of Mombasa
And that’s all folks! If I didn’t mention a food that means it’s not my favourite :)
Also shout out to all you guys from the Comoros islands telling me how similar all our foods are
Also shout out to all you guys from the Comoros islands telling me how similar all our foods are
