Ugandan Cuisine

Ugandan Cuisine consists of traditional and modern cooking styles, foods and dishes in Uganda, with English, Arab and Asian, especially Indian, influences. Main dishes are usually centred on a sauce or stew of sesame, groundnuts, beans or meat, eaten with a starch that traditionally comes from posho, a firm maize meal, or matooke, steamed green banana, in the centre, or kalo, a millet ugali, in the north, east and west. Cassava, yam and sweet potato are also eaten, and chicken, pork, fish, beef and goat are common. Distinctive foods include luwombo, a stew steamed in banana leaves, the rolex, a chapati filled with eggs and vegetables, and seasonal nsenene locusts, while tea and coffee are popular drinks.