Around the World with Miss Jacobs: Food in Uganda!

Here in Uganda, we don't have quite the same variety of food as what we are used to eating at home. When we cook for ourselves, we eat a lot of rice, pasta, eggs, and vegetables like cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, and onions. For breakfast, we have cornflakes and oatmeal. We also eat fruit – mostly bananas, but we've also had fresh papaya, oranges (which are green here), and avacado. For snacks, we eat a lot of shortbread cookies.

This was one of our first meals in Uganda, from a restaurant called Burungi's. It's a chicken broth, and we mixed in rice and sweet potato (matoke). There is chapat on the left.

This is the menu at Burungi's. “Offals katogo” is a kind of intestine. “Chapati” is like a flour tortilla. “Muchomo” is goat meat.

“Milk tea” is a big thing here. It's tea steeped in milk and it's served hot. You can also put sugar in it. It's wonderful! This picture shows milk tea along with a typical lunch of banana, eggs, and bread.

They sell peanut butter here, but it is expensive. Instead, we buy G-nuts Paste. G-nuts stands for “ground nuts” - nuts that grow in the ground, aka peanuts. So it's made of peanuts, but doesn't taste as good as actual peanut butter.

G-Nuts are also made into a purple sauce!

One day, our Ugandan friend Michael made for us a delicious feast for dinner. This plate has chicken, rice, and vegetables. He had to actually kill the chicken to make this meal. I was glad I wasn't at home when that was happening!

Sugar cane is a treat here. People chew the soft center portion of the sugar cane and then spit it out.

A “rolex” is a flour tortilla (called chapat) rolled into a kind of burrito with egg, cabbage, and tomato inside. It's probably my favorite thing we've eaten here so far.