Nyama Choma
Kenya's fire ritual: goat, beef or chicken roasted over charcoal at roadside choma joints, cut on a wooden board and eaten with kachumbari salad and ugali.
What it is
Kenya's fire ritual: goat, beef or chicken roasted over charcoal at roadside choma joints, cut on a wooden board and eaten with kachumbari salad and ugali. Ingredients: goat or beef (or chicken kuku choma), salt, chiles; kachumbari: tomatoes, red onions, coriander, chiles, lemon; ugali and sukuma wiki. Recipe: 1) Salt the meat; grill slowly over charcoal until charred and tender. 2) Rest on the board. 3) Chop into pieces (the panga work is theatre). 4) Make kachumbari fresh. Serve: communally off the board, with ugali, sukuma and cold drinks — choma is a social institution. Flavor: smoke, salt, fresh salad bite. History: nyama choma ('burnt meat' in Swahili) is East Africa's barbecue canon; Nairobi's choma joints are its cathedrals. See also: Ugali, Pilau (Kenyan).
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