Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, soft maize/peas githeri. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Soft maize/peas githeri is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Soft maize/peas githeri is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Githeri is a stable food in East Africa and consist of mainly boiled maize and beans that can be eaten in different ways. It can be made into a stew, mixed. My best season whereby green maize and green pigeon peas are plenty in the farm.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have soft maize/peas githeri using 2 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Soft maize/peas githeri:
- Take 1/2 kg Green soft maize
- Take 1/2 kg Green ripe garden peas
Githeri is a bean and maize casserole of sorts and it is served throughout Kenya. It is a very popular meal because it is healthy and also because it makes it easy to include all food groups in one meal. In my country, this is one meal that all boarding schools have in common. Githeri is best cooked with soft, green maize, fresh from the shamba.
Steps to make Soft maize/peas githeri:
- Remove the maize from the cobs and the peas from the pods respectively.
- Winnow each of them separately to remove the chuff/ offtypes.
- Put 2 litres in a pot and your power source and heat it to boil.
- Add your mixture of maize and peas into the boiling water in the pot and cover it to cook.allow it to cook for about 1½hrs. During this time keep on looking at the level of water in case it drains so quickly you can top up.
- After one hour check weather your githeri is ready by trying to press the peas. If they smash with alot of ease your githeri is ready.
- Fry it with a few tomatoes and it will be ready for serving. Enjoy.
In Kenya, maize is never out of season and finding it at the farmers market wont be Githeri is made of whole beans and maize/corn thus making it a very healthy meal. There is nothing processed in githeri making it more healthy than. Githeri - a traditional Kenyan one-pot meal dish made out of corn and beans seasoned with curry powder and white pepper OR you can Or just add salt to the boiled maize and beans. Do you just put in a soft tortilla like a burrito? 🙂 Thanks for sharing! Used to make maize flour, mixed with beans to make githeri or with cow peas for muthokoi, can be eaten as roasted or boiled maize whole on cob, livestock feed, corn oil.
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