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Mchemsho

Boiled chicken with tomato, potato and capsicum, accompanied by a separate dairy preparation.

About Mchemsho

Mark Olive’s mchemsho wa kuku comes from The Good Cooks’ Tanzanian field cooking. This chicken version combines potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and green and yellow capsicum in a boiled preparation flavoured with garlic, ginger and lime.

The source also lists spring onions and baby spinach among the selected vegetable options. Milk and natural yoghurt form a separate accompaniment, retaining the dairy component of this particular published recipe.

Chicken pieces and vegetables make the main stew, with the reduced dairy preparation served in its own dish. The associated field cookbook places Olive’s cooking in central Tanzania, where he travelled to learn traditional recipes.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Milk.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Mchemsho

Mark Olive’s Tanzanian mchemsho wa kuku, SBS rendition.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Whole chicken: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Fresh ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Lime juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual juiced lime74; no extra whole-lime solids invented.
  • Potatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Carrots: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Green capsicum: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Yellow capsicum: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Spring onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual alternative80 selected over walking onion; list-only item retained despite missing method placement.
  • Baby spinach: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual alternative81 selected over makaranga mwitu; list-only retained despite missing placement.
  • Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual dairy82/88, separately reduced.
  • Natural yoghurt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual SBS generic dairy yoghurt83/88, Milk positive; exact animal/formula unspecified.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit main-pot boiling water86-87, no washing water invented from clean verb.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Tanzania
  • TanzaniaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

Sources & references
  1. Mark Olive’s Tanzanian mchemsho wa kuku, SBS rendition