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Tanzanian Nyama Choma

Name: Tanzanian Nyama Choma
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Tanzania
Ingredients: 800g (bone-in) Lamb; 2 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Black Pepper; 1 Lime; 2 Tomato; 1 Red Onion; 1 Green Chili Pepper; A pinch Cilantro

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Goat or beef slowly grilled over charcoal — Tanzania's go-to dish when people get together.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Nyama choma means 'grilled meat' in Swahili: goat or beef seasoned only with salt and slowly grilled over charcoal. It's essential whenever Tanzanians and Kenyans get together, enjoyed with friends and beer at outdoor grill restaurants, and eaten with kachumbari, a tomato and onion salad.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a weekend evening at a Dar es Salaam grill restaurant, friends gather around the charcoal and drink beer as the grilled meat is cut up for them on a wooden board.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Lamb 800g (bone-in)
Salt 2 tsp
Black Pepper 1 tsp
Lime 1
Tomato 2
Red Onion 1
Green Chili Pepper 1
Cilantro A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the lamb with salt and pepper and let stand 30 minutes.
Grill slowly over charcoal or under a fish grill, well away from the heat, for 40–50 minutes, turning.
Thinly slice the tomatoes and red onion, add the chopped green chili and cilantro, and dress with lime juice and salt to make kachumbari.
Cut the grilled meat into bite-size pieces on a wooden board.
Serve salt on a small dish alongside.
Serve with the kachumbari.

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