How to make a quick mug of millet porridge (bushera)

Millet porridge (bushera)

This recipe shows you how to make a quick mug or bowl of porridge, Uganda boarding school style, BUT NOT with a “suicide” water heater* (see below). Please note: using a mug is much more practical than the bowl in this case!

Wheat Flour Kabalagala Pan Cakes

Kabalagala banana pancakes made with wheat flour

This is a form of “kabalagala” as a type of Ugandan “banana pan cakes” normally made from apple(?) bananas (local name: ‘ndizzi’) and cassava flour is called, locally. In this version, the cassava flour will be replaced with wheat flour so we have Wheat Flour Kabalagala Pan cakes … Since the specific locally used bananas are not available everywhere, they are substituted with plantains. The rest of the recipe is borrowed from the “normal” kabalagala recipe on this site.

Mercy’s Chapati Recipe

Mercy's Chapati Recipe with goulash sauce

Mercy’s Chapati Recipe is another (East African, i.e. Ugandan, Kenyan, Tanzanian, Rwandan, etc) simple chapati recipe, with milk and eggs, which is more elaborate than >> A Simple Chapati Recipe <<, but with better chapatis.

Watersoaked Cassava Salad

Watersoaked Cassava Salad

This salad is inspired by something that was not even perceived as a salad, that used to be made by some students of King’s college, Budo (Uganda). It basically consisted of steamed cassava mixed with sardines or mackerels, the ingredients most readily available, then. In this case, we shall “raise standards” a bit by including some other ingredients.

King’s College Budo Rice Recipe

King's College Budo Rice

This recipe shows how to prepare rice “KCB-style”, with canned fish. King’s College, Budo, is a cool, mixed, boarding secondary school, near Kampala. Students, at least a while ago, used to find ways of making use of the canned fish they got after working on the school farm. The fish & other food items were donated by the World Food program (WFP). This is one of the ways the fish was used.