Swahili Coast & Zanzibar
Mahamri & Mbaazi (Swahili Breakfast)
The Swahili-coast breakfast pairing: mahamri, lightly sweet cardamom-and-coconut fried dough puffs, served with mbaazi — pigeon peas simmered in spiced coconut sauce. Sweet, savory, and quintessentially coastal.
2 hr 10 min · Serves 6 · Medium
6
Ingredients
Mahamri
Mbaazi
Method
Start cooking mode- Prep 90 min · Cook 40 min · 130 min total
- medium
- 1
Make a cardamom-coconut yeasted dough; prove, shape into triangles, and fry to puffed golden mahamri.
- 2
Simmer pigeon peas in spiced coconut sauce to a creamy mbaazi.
- 3
Serve the sweet mahamri alongside the savory coconut mbaazi.
Notes and swaps
- Not assessed yet. Check each ingredient if you have an allergy.
