DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Githeri
Kenyan beans and white maize with onion, tomato, salt and oil.
About Githeri
Mayuri Patel's simple githeri brings beans and white maize together with onion and tomato. She places the dish within the Kikuyu cooking of Central Kenya and describes it as a familiar meal across Kenya.
The maize kernels and beans provide contrasting textures within the soft tomato-and-onion base. Salt and oil give this simple rendition its straightforward savoury character, with chilli an optional addition.
The beans and maize remain distinct in the serving. Ugali is a suggested accompaniment, providing a firm, white-maize porridge alongside the bean mixture.
Allergens in this recipe
Optional additions: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Githeri
Mayuri Patel's simple Kenyan githeri with onion and tomato.
- Fresh red beansBase
- White maize kernelsBase
- OnionAromatic
- TomatoBase
- SaltSeasoning
- Vegetable oilCooking mediumIngredient page not linked
- WaterLiquid
- Red chilli powderSeasoning · Optional
- Meat, unspecifiedProtein · OptionalIngredient page not linked
- White maize mealAccompaniment · Optional
- Salted butterAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Fresh red beans: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual62 preferred fresh redbeans, broader redbean candidate; no forced kidney cultivar.
- White maize kernels: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual36/63/95 preferred fresh white maize, broader maizekernels candidate, not sweetcorn alternative.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual73/99 generic vegetableoil identity unknown.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual36 explicitly traditional bean/maize boiling water, main required; shared own Ugali76 water also retained.
- Red chilli powder (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual74/142 expressly optional, selected over greenchilli alternative, species unknown.
- Meat, unspecified (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual140 explicitly offers meat OR fish of choice; first generic meat option retained optional, animal/cut/formula/stage unprovided. Not invented as Beef.
- White maize meal (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual ownUgali59/75 white coarsely milled maize meal, inner required, offered accompaniment parentoptional.
- Salted butter (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Own Ugali49 explicitly optional saltedbutter accompaniment; both inner optional and whole side optional, full product formula unknown.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Kenya
- KenyaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Kenyan Cuisine
- Kenyan Inland and Highland CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.