East African Recipes

Today I'm going to spotlight another region of my website. This is the East African Recipes. A summary is presented, as well as recipes from every country in East Africa, as follows:

• East African Recipes




• Burundi Recipes


• Comoros Recipes


• Djibouti Recipes


• Eritrea Recipes


• Ethiopia Recipes


• Kenya Recipes


• Madagascar Recipes


• Malawi Recipes


• Mauritius Recipes


• Mayotte Recipes


• Mozambique Recipes


• Réunion Recipes


• Rwanda Recipes


• Seychelles Recipes


• Somalia Recipes


• Tanzania Recipes


• Uganda Recipes


• Zambia Recipes


• Zimbabwe Recipes

To whet your appetite, here's a classic East African (Tanzanian) recipe for Curried Chicken-Banana Soup:

Curried Chicken-Banana Soup

1 x 1.5kg chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces
2 large onions, chopped
4 tbsp groundnut oil
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 tbsp curry powder
1 tbps dried red chillies (preferrably piri-piri) ground to a powder
2 tsp ground black pepper
1.8l chicken stock
2 large tomatoes, blanched, peeled, and chopped
200g grated coconut
2 ripe bananas, cut into 3cm lengths and quartered



Add the oil to a large, heavy, casserole dish and brown the chicken. Once nicely browned remove the chicken and reserve then add the onion and garlic to the pot and fry until soft and lightly browned then add the chilli powder, curry powder and black pepper. Fry for 2 minutes until the spices are aromatic then add the tomatoes, stock, chicken and coconut. Bring the mixture to a boil then reduce to a simmer, cover and allow to cook for 35 minutes.

When the chicken is thorughly cooked remove from the pan, allow to cool a little then strip the meat from the bones and return the meat to the pan along with the bananas. Simmer for 10 minutes, until everything is heated through. Lalde into bowls, garnish with parsley or coriander and serve.


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All the African recipes on the site (over 800) are currently being edited to put into an eBook which will be the most comprehensive book on African cookery available today. More information on this eBook can be found at African Recipes eBook. The eBook will be avaialble from the second week of October. Again, all proceeds from this eBook go to the 'Help Stefan' Charity campaign.

Please also check out the Celtnet Recipes reviews and notices pages. Here you will find reviews of the many recipe books that I've used in my career as a cook.

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