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Burundian Cuisine

↳ from Bujumbura, Burundi

Highland cooking of beans and starchy foods: ibijumba (sweet potato), ibiharage (beans) and boiled plantain. Lake fish like mukeke appear on tables.

must try ↓

Specialties

  • Ibiharage
  • Mukeke

History

Burundian cooking depends on farming in a high-altitude, crowded land where beans are the main protein.

Ingredients

  • Beans
  • Plantain
  • Cassava
  • Sweet potato
  • Fish
  • Palm oil
  • Spinach

How it's made

  1. Boil beans until soft
  2. Stew plantain or sweet potato
  3. Cook fish with tomato
  4. Serve with ugali or rice
to drink

What Burundi drinks

Impeke (banana beer), Primus beer, urwarwa

Ratings & notes

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