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Tasty bubwoba: Simple beef tallow Luhya mushroom recipe

Traditional century old Luhya cuisine recipe that uses tallow, munyu musherekha and milk to deliver a creamy, nutty meal of wild mushrooms.
Course Main Dish
Cuisine African Cuisine, East African Cuisine, Luhya Cuisine

Equipment

  • 1 Sufuria or cooking pot
  • 1 Cooking stick

Ingredients
  

Seasoning

  • 1 cup Munyu musherekha or ½ teaspoon munyu kwa lukhaye
  • 1 tbsp salt

Main ingredients

  • 4 handfuls dried bubwoba (wild mushrooms)
  • 1 cup Whole Milk
  • 2 tablespoons Beef or mutton tallow (Isiachi)
  • 4 Shoots spring onion

Instructions
 

  • Clean the wild mushrooms by soaking them in water for at least 3 hours and letting the soil to fall to the bottom of the container. Thereafter, repeatedly rinse he mushrooms until water is clear.
    4 handfuls dried bubwoba (wild mushrooms)
  • Melt the beef tallow (isiachi) in a pan and fry the mushrooms and stirring continuously to avoid it sticking to the pan.
    2 tablespoons Beef or mutton tallow (Isiachi)
  • Add munyu musherekha and cover to simmer until the munyu reduces.
    1 cup Munyu musherekha
  • Add milk and let simmer until it reduces to desired thickness and mushrooms are soft. Add water as need be if mushrooms remains undercooked.
    1 cup Whole Milk
  • Season with salt
    1 tbsp salt
  • Garnish with the spring onions and serve hot.
    4 Shoots spring onion

Notes

Learn more

  1. How to make animal fat tallow (isiachi), the traditional Luhya way
Keyword Creamy Delicacies, Easy, Rich, Traditional