How to pronounce Mukimo

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /mukimo/. In plain English letters that is moo-KEE-mo, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Mukimo?

Mukimo is a main dish of Kenya. Where it comes from: Central Kenya. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are potato, vegetables, corn and beans & tofu. It tastes savory.

Where Mukimo comes from

Mukimo is one of 8 signature dishes of Kenya on this map. See all dishes from Central.

• Githeri · Main dish · Central Kenya

  Githeri is maize and beans boiled together, a simple dish of the Kikuyu people of central Kenya that has become a staple across the country.

• Mutura · Street food · Central Kenya

  Mutura is a traditional Kenyan blood sausage and one of the country's best-known street foods.

• Nyama choma · Main dish · Nairobi

  Nyama choma is Swahili for grilled meat: goat, beef or sometimes chicken, roasted slowly over charcoal and seasoned only with salt.

• Ugali and sukuma wiki ugali na sukuma wiki · Main dish · All Kenya

  Ugali is a stiff porridge of white maize flour and water, stirred in a pot until it forms a firm block, and it is the staple food of Kenya.

• Mursik · Drink · Rift Valley

  Mursik is the traditional fermented milk of the Kalenjin people of Kenya's Rift Valley.

• Chang'aa · Drink · All Kenya

  Chang'aa is a traditional home-brewed spirit, popular in Kenya and very potent.

Food of Kenya

Dishes like Mukimo in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Mukimo:

• Litti chokha लिट्टी चोखा · Main dish · Bihar, India

  Litti is a ball of wholewheat dough stuffed with sattu, roasted black-chickpea flour mixed with lemon, spices and herbs, and roasted over charcoal or dried cow-dung fire.

• Karalahana çorbası · Soup & stew · Trabzon and the eastern Black Sea, Türkiye

  Karalahana çorbası is a soup of black cabbage, a dark leafy cabbage that grows on the eastern Black Sea coast, cooked with white or red beans, maize flour and pieces of meat or anchovies.

• Maneštra · Soup & stew · Istria, Croatia

  Maneštra is a native Istrian dish, a thick stew-like soup made from whatever vegetables are at hand.

• Jota · Soup & stew · Trieste, Italy

  Jota is the bean and sauerkraut soup of Trieste and the Karst plateau: borlotti beans, potatoes and sour cabbage cooked with pork rind or smoked meat, garlic and cumin, thick enough to stand a spoon in.