Our Kilimanjaro Food Menu
During a climb or camping safari, we provide three meals a day as well as afternoon snacks. We also provide all of your drinking water. After your game drive, a snack with tea or coffee will be waiting for you at the campsite. You will have a choice of fresh popcorn, peanuts, cake or sliced fruits. We have provided a few sample menus below.
Non-vegetarian Sample Menu Appetizer 1. Vegetable or chicken soup 2. Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad Main Course 1. Rice with a beef stew sauce 2. Fish fillet with a side of baked potatoes topped with a vegetable sauce sauce 3. Chicken quiche with a side salad 4. Roasted chicken or beef with a side of cooked bananas and potatoes Dessert 1. African pancake with honey 2. Seasonal fruits 3. Fried bananas topped with chocolate 4. Caramel custard Vegetarian Sample Menu Appetizer 1. Vegetable, carrot or cucumber soup with bread 2. Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad Main Course 1. Vegetable quiche with mixed salad and fried potatoes 2. Rice with eggplant sauce with side of vegetables and avocado salad 3. Spaghetti with carrot and pea sauce with side of spinach and cucumber salad Dessert 1. African pancake with honey 2. Seasonal fruits 3. Fried bananas topped with chocolate 4. Caramel custard Tanzanian Food Sample Menu Appetizer 1. Banana, pumpkin, or peanut soup with bread 2. Stuffed beef chapati Main Courses 1. Ndizi Nyama: Cooked bananas mixed with beef or vegetables Maharage Nazi: beans cooked in a coconut sauce 2. Wali Nyama: Spiced rice topped with a beef and tomato sauce kachumbari: Cucumber, tomato and carrot salad 3. Viazi Mboga: potatoes topped with a vegetable coconut sauce Dessert 1. Tanzanian pancake topped with honey 2. Seasonal fruits ON LODGES – MENU The food varies in quality depending on the type of lodge you choose. The smaller, more private lodges have much better meals than the larger lodges. Picnic lunches are very similar to those on a camping safari. We have provided a sample lodge menu below. Breakfast Eggs, prepared any style, toast, potatoes, chicken or sausage, fruit, cake, juice, coffee and tea. Lunch Chicken or vegetable sandwich, hard-boiled egg, fruit, cake or chocolate, and juice. Dinner Soup, salad, your choice of fish or meat, rice, cake, tea and coffee. |
Typical Tanzania local Foods
Want to learn how to cook Tanzania local foods?
Travel By Locals, welcomes you to experience the real taste of Tanzania local foods. Karibu! TBL guie will give you a short introduction on Tanzania food and explain about different local dishes . After you have decided on the menu you would like to cook, you go and buy all the ingredients at the local market. If you are food will include cooking Ugali you will buy maize and accompanied with TBL guide to the local grained factory and see how it is processed into flour. At the local household or TBL home stayers in Moshi, TBL guide will show you the cooking utensils that are common in Tanzania , before you start the actual preparations, like cutting vegetables, cooking and frying. Most dishes take quite some time to prepare. (45min to 2hrs) you will eat your meal out side, while sitting on reed mats under the banana trees. During rainy season there's a room available, with the space for maximum of 20 people. The food will be served with local tea (chai) or coffee (kahawa). At the bar nearby you can get cold drinks and beer. After eating you can have a short walk around the neighborhood to digest your self cooked meal and taste the atmosphere of a local Kilimanjaro neighborhood. The different local dishes that you can learn to cook: Breakfast: Boiled sweet potatoes, cassava, yam (magimbi) or Irish potatoes. They are eaten with ground nuts or eggs. Everyday food. 1. UGALI, is a very common food a staple made of maize or cassava flour, or mixture of both. It's usually eaten together with the smallest fish (Dagaa), meat, beans, or greens like spinach (mchicha). A good ugali is neither too dry nor sticky. 2. Ndizi nyama /samaki (green banana with meat/fish ) A stew of onions, carrot, sweet pepper, bitter tomato, ladies finger, banana and meat or fish. 3. Wali Nyama, Kuku, Samaki maharage (rice with beef, chicken, fish or beans) is eaten with vegetables, the rice is often cooked with coconut or oil. 4. Pilau (spice rice) Food prepared during the weekend or when there is a ceremony. is originally a West Indian dish. The rice with many Indian spices is mixed with vegetables, or pieces of meat, chicken, goat or beef. 5. Mchemsho. (trouper) A Special dish in northern Tanzania. (Kilimanjaro region) It is not eaten on a daily basis because its many ingredients make it a more expensive dish, compared to other local dishes. Ingredients: green bananas, potatoes, carrot, green beans, cabbage, eggplant, banana, onions, tomatoes, sweet pepper, ladies finger, bitter tomatoes, spices. You can choose to mix the vegetables with fish or Beef. 6. Nyama choma . A barbecue of beef, chicken, goat or fish, with ugali and/or barbecued bananas as side dishes. Karibu - Welcome to experience more delicious traditional Tanzania local foods with TBL. |