Tanzania

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Tanzania

5 recipes

Photograph of Sun-dried mushrooms.
Elevated risk

Sun-dried mushrooms

Sun-dried mushrooms are mushrooms spread in open sunlight and left to lose their water to solar heat and moving air, a method recorded in Nigeria, Tanzania, Mexico and among Algerian desert truffle gatherers.

Nigeria
Photograph of Smoke-dried mushrooms over a hearth.
Elevated risk

Smoke-dried mushrooms over a hearth

Hearth-dried mushrooms are dried on shelves above a cooking fire, so heat and smoke reach them. Tanzanian records describe the method; a Vietnamese study tested smoke-dried shiitake for fuel-dependent contaminants.

Tanzania
A clear glass jar of cooked milk-cap mushrooms layered under brine, illustrating Finnish-style salted mushrooms.
High risk

Salted Mushrooms

Salted mushrooms are a traditional wild-mushroom preserve, especially of Finnish and Russian milk caps, made by layering boiled mushrooms with coarse salt or keeping them under brine, and kept cold.

Russia · Traditional method
· Vegetables
Cloudy red-brown Mbege, Chagga banana-and-finger-millet beer, served in a carved gourd cup.

Mbege

Chagga beer from the slopes of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, made by combining a fermented banana porridge with a sweet porridge of germinated finger millet and drunk fresh within a day or two.

Kilimanjaro Region · Traditional method
· Drinks
A pale-brown, grain-speckled glass of finished Morogoro maize-and-sorghum togwa.
Elevated risk

Morogoro maize-and-sorghum togwa

A Tanzanian cereal drink of cooked maize and sorghum flour thinned by sorghum-malt enzymes, soured by lactic acid bacteria and often started with a little of the previous batch.

Morogoro municipality · Traditional method
· Drinks