EAST AFRICAN FOOD: You must try it!

 There are about 31 kinds of delicious foods around the  East Africa. One of the best ways to experience the local culture of any country is to try the local food and drinks. 

Most people travel to East Africa for the safaris and the culture. However, you can also find some great food too! Some of the dishes are quite plain, but a lot of them are incredibly delicious, so I’m sure you will be very pleasantly surprised!

There are many different foods and drinks for you to try in East Africa (more than I could list), but here are a few to whet your appetite (I won’t include Ethiopian food, as this could take up a whole post by itself).

Here I mentioned about some food's of East Africa that you should try it surely.  

1. Nyama Choma

Nyama means ‘meat’ and choma means ‘roast’, so nyama choma is roasted meat – usually beef , chicken or goat . It is very popular and well known dish of the East African city like Carnivore and Nairobi. You’ll find meat joints all over the place, from roadside stalls to upmarket restaurants, like Carnivore in Nairobi.

2. Ugali

This is the staple food of many African countries, all over the continent, not just in East Africa.

Known locally as ugali in Kenya, Tanzania & Rwanda, and posho in Uganda, this is a porridge made of maize, millet, or sorghum mixed with water.

It’s nothing like oatmeal porridge , it tastes a bit like grits and looks like mashed potato, but with a much thicker consistency. It is usually served with some vegetables, sauce, and maybe meat or fish and you roll it into a ball and use it to scoop up the other things on your plate.

3. Chapati

The chapati is a staple Indian food that is also extremely popular in East Africa. They’re very versatile and simple to make with just 4 ingredients – flour, oil, water and salt.

Chapatis make a great accompaniment to pretty much every dish and you can eat them with semi liquid foods like curry or stews or cover them in Nutella or jam and peanut butter and fill them with bananas, like a crepe. Delicious!





4. Biriyani

Biriyani is another Indian dish that has made it’s way over to East Africa. It’s different from polau, in that the rice is usually cooked with spices (separately from the meat) and the meat (or fish) is cooked in rich sauce, then they are put together on the plate.



5. Isombe

A traditional Congolese/Rwandan/Burundian stew made with cassava leaves and other ingredients such as spinach (an essential ingredient), aubergines (eggplant), onions, tomatoes, coriander, groundnuts, garlic, Maggi seasoning (a bit like Worcestershire Sauce) and peanut butter.The dish may seem vegetarian, but just be aware that the stock is usually made with boiled beef bones, which also gives it a meaty flavour.


Here I discussed about most popular 5 types of delicious foods that are made every day in the streets and the restaurants of the East Africa.

Let me know if you tried some of the dishes on the list and what you liked/didn’t like! Any other foods to add to the list?

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