Here we are in the second day of month long Buffet on Table – Blogging Marathon. For today’s combo dishes, I selected a simple meal from Tanzania. Ugali also called as Simbe, Sembe or Posho is a dish made to porridge or dough like consistency to go with stews. In Tanzania, this dish also has an informal street name Nguna. Made with corn meal, this is usually inexpensive and so easy accessible to the poor. They combine it with meat or vegetable stew. A small portion of ugali is made into a ball and soaked in the stew for eating. Some times, they make a hole in the centre to scoop up the meat in the stew. The best part of doing this type of posts is we come to know about so many traditions around the world.
I made a vegetable stew with eggplant and potatoes which was so much like our eggplant gravy. Even ugali reminded me of plain humble upma we make. It was a new and interesting combination which I liked. When I served it to hubby, he told me that it is like onion less upma. But he added some curd and the stew and told that it was nice. Yes a little curd in the side tastes so nice. To make a ball out of ugali, cook the corn meal until it is slightly dry. Then once it starts cooling, shape it into small balls. It will hold its shape and cling together. You can even slice it into portions to serve. I wanted to serve it like how they serve in Tanzania. So this huge ball.
Tanzanian Mchuzi Wa Biringani ( Click on image for recipe)
Ingredients:
Corn Meal-1 cup
Water-3 cups
Salt- to taste
Procedure:
In a pan mix salt and water and bring it to boil.
Slowly add the corn meal and keep on cooking.
The corn meal once thick, splutters a lot. So be careful.
Cover and cook on low flame until almost dry.
Let it cool a bit.
Take two spoons and use them to scoop a portion of ugali.
Place it on a plate and shape it into a ball.
Shape the remaining portions immediately. Otherwise it will become hard.
Serve with a stew of your choice. I served it with brinjal and potato stew.
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Tanzania Ugali Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Corn Meal-1 cup
- Water-3 cups
- Salt- to taste
Instructions
Procedure
- In a pan mix salt and water and bring it to boil.
- Slowly add the corn meal and keep on cooking.
- The corn meal once thick, splutters a lot. So be careful.
- Cover and cook on low flame until almost dry.
- Let it cool a bit.
- Take two spoons and use them to scoop a portion of ugali.
- Place it on a plate and shape it into a ball.
- Shape the remaining portions immediately. Otherwise it will become hard.
- Serve with a stew of your choice. I served it with brinjal and potato stew.
Your recipes are so unique!!! very well researched…
Trust you to find out such tough dishes and you make them sound so simple..Kudos Gayathri!..such a fantastic find this is!
Such a different combo!! Good one Gayathri..
Not sure if my last comment went through. I got an error message. Anyway, ugali reminds me of N’shima I made last year for Zambia. The preparation is similar to ugali and I was unsure how it would taste. With the side dish, it wasn’t bad.
You made a nice combo meal for Tanzania.
Very simple yet interesting recipe.
you take so much efforts Gayathri..this is beautiful simple , distant yet ours kind of recipe…the curry indeed looks like our regular one and the corn meal resembles polenta/ upma…both look stunning
OMG! that is such a tongue twister. Sounds very flavorful.
I wanted to make this but some how tempted with other combos
Pera parthadum thitareengalo nu ninaichen.. but awesome recipe. Man urs is all unique. Great work
Totally new to me and it looks delicious..
Gayatri like Valli said trust you to make a difficult to understand dish sound so simple. Love the comment onionless upma.
That looks like a very comforting and hearty combo. Good one Gayathri.
Love that striking yellow gayathri and the shape too!! Simple yet satisfying meal.
That looks like one rustic and hearty meal.