Get your ready made Luwombo
DOES cooking come as natural to women as eating does to men? Afraid not. With more women devoting more time to career development, travel and self-fulfilment, not much is spent in the kitchen. And time is what it takes to prepare and enjoy traditional dishes.
By Rehema Aanyu
DOES cooking come as natural to women as eating does to men? Afraid not. With more women devoting more time to career development, travel and self-fulfilment, not much is spent in the kitchen. And time is what it takes to prepare and enjoy traditional dishes.
Does this mean that career women cannot savour such dishes with their families? Of course they can. A number of restaurants have made this possible. Traditional dishes such as Eshabwe (ghee sauce) and dishes such as chicken; meat, mushroom and groundnut luwombo and mpombo (matooke prepared in banana leaves) are a specialty. One simply has to part with ‘a few thousand shillings’ to get one’s heart desires.
With services such as outside catering and take away, restaurants are able to provide families with delicious traditional dishes. Be it for a small family dinner or a special get-together, a career woman will walk away with compliments after her family and guests have tasted these yummy dishes.
A 500g dish of Eshabwe costs sh10,000 and can serve 20 people. Eshabwe is a rich and thick sauce eaten with food to add flavour to it. It is usually eaten with kalo (millet bread) by people from western Uganda. Eshabwe is available at Kembabazi’s Catering Centre in Naguru, JHMB eating-place, locker 37C and 60B in Bugolobi market. Four litres of Eshabwe can feed more than a hundred people and costs sh100, 000. Eshabwe is rare and is only got through order in most restaurants in town.
The price of luwombo dishes varies depending on what sauce is ordered. A single plate of chicken luwombo costs sh3,000 at Alexandros Fast Foods Restaurant on William Street. To feed 50 people, this same dish costs sh50,000.
For matooke mpombo, the prices vary from restaurant to restaurant and depend on the price of matooke on market. Prices also, depend on the client’s bargaining power.
DOES cooking come as natural to women as eating does to men? Afraid not. With more women devoting more time to career development, travel and self-fulfilment, not much is spent in the kitchen. And time is what it takes to prepare and enjoy traditional dishes.
Does this mean that career women cannot savour such dishes with their families? Of course they can. A number of restaurants have made this possible. Traditional dishes such as Eshabwe (ghee sauce) and dishes such as chicken; meat, mushroom and groundnut luwombo and mpombo (matooke prepared in banana leaves) are a specialty. One simply has to part with ‘a few thousand shillings’ to get one’s heart desires.
With services such as outside catering and take away, restaurants are able to provide families with delicious traditional dishes. Be it for a small family dinner or a special get-together, a career woman will walk away with compliments after her family and guests have tasted these yummy dishes.
A 500g dish of Eshabwe costs sh10,000 and can serve 20 people. Eshabwe is a rich and thick sauce eaten with food to add flavour to it. It is usually eaten with kalo (millet bread) by people from western Uganda. Eshabwe is available at Kembabazi’s Catering Centre in Naguru, JHMB eating-place, locker 37C and 60B in Bugolobi market. Four litres of Eshabwe can feed more than a hundred people and costs sh100, 000. Eshabwe is rare and is only got through order in most restaurants in town.
The price of luwombo dishes varies depending on what sauce is ordered. A single plate of chicken luwombo costs sh3,000 at Alexandros Fast Foods Restaurant on William Street. To feed 50 people, this same dish costs sh50,000.
For matooke mpombo, the prices vary from restaurant to restaurant and depend on the price of matooke on market. Prices also, depend on the client’s bargaining power.