Most Popular, consumed Foods, Meals in Kenya and recipes on how to cook them

Below is a list of Kenya’s most popular and consumed foods. Recipes on how to prepare the meals have been provided in a separate page.

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NOTE: The foods have been arranged in alphabetical order. The most common among those listed below are ugali, sukuma wiki, chai, githeri and chapati

1. Chai: Milk mixed with tea
2. Chapati: A soft flatbread.
3. Githeri: Cooked beans mixed with maize
4. Irio: A popular dish made with corn and beans.
5. Kachumbari: A Kenyan salad.
6. karamu: The Swahili word for feast.
7. Kuku fry: Fried chiecken
8. Maandazi: A fried sweet bread.
9. matokes: Small bananas that are very popular in Kenya. Most boiled for heavy consumption. Common among the Kisii tribe
10. Nyama choma: Grilled meat.
11. Omena: Small fish. Mostly consumed by the Luo tribe in Kenya
12. Pilau: Spiced rice.
13. Samaki: Fish
14. sambusa: A small pastry filled with meat or vegetables.
15. sukuma wiki: A popular stew made with kale
16. ugali: A cornmeal mush that Kenyans eat at almost every meal.
17. Uji: A thin porridge made with cornmeal.

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