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Luwombo

Name: Luwombo
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Uganda
Ingredients: 2 Chicken Thigh; 4 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 Onion; 2 Tomato; 4 Shiitake mushrooms; 1 tsp Curry Powder; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 200ml Water; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Main Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Chicken and peanut sauce wrapped in banana leaves and steamed — a feast dish of the Buganda Kingdom.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Luwombo is a traditional Ugandan feast dish said to have been created by a royal cook of the Buganda Kingdom in the late 19th century. Chicken, beef, or fish is wrapped in banana leaves with peanut or tomato sauce and slowly steamed. Infused with the scent of the leaves, it's essential for weddings, Christmas, and other special days.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Ugandan wedding feast, a steaming banana-leaf parcel is set before each guest, and the aroma of peanut sauce spreads as the leaves are opened.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 2
Peanut butter 4 tbsp
Onion 1
Tomato 2
Shiitake mushrooms 4
Curry Powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 200ml
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces, season with salt, pepper, and curry powder, and lightly sear in oil.
Mix the chopped onion, tomato, peanut butter, and water into a sauce.
Place the chicken, shiitake, and sauce on baking paper, wrap, and seal tightly.
Wrap again in foil and steam for 1.5 hours.
Serve on plates in their wrappers and open at the table.

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