Tanzanian dishes you'll cook at the Cultural Home

Food is the quickest way into a culture. These are the everyday dishes you will help cook and share at the family table.

• Ugali: a firm maize porridge, eaten by hand with stews and greens.
• Pilau: rice cooked with spices such as cumin, cardamom and cloves, often with meat.
• Chapati: soft, layered flatbread, a favourite at breakfast and with beans.
• Mchicha: amaranth greens cooked with tomato and onion, sometimes with coconut or peanuts.
• Mtori: a smooth banana and meat soup from the Kilimanjaro region.
• Nyama choma: grilled meat, the centre of many celebrations.
• Mandazi: lightly sweet fried dough, perfect with tea.
• Chai: tea brewed with milk and spices such as ginger and cardamom.

Cooking together

At the Cultural Home you cook alongside the family, from the market to the pot to the plate. Tell us about any diet or allergy when you book and we will plan around it.