Food(Dishes) and Economy in Uganda

Food(Dishes) and Economy in Uganda

Food in Daily Life. Most people, except a few who live in urban centers, produce their own food. Most people eat two meals a day: lunch and supper. Breakfast is often a cup of tea or porridge. Meals are prepared by women and girls; men and boys age twelve and above do not sit in the kitchen, which is separate from the main house. Cooking usually is done on an open wood fire though nowdays even in villages charcoal stoves are used. Popular dishes include matoke (a staple made from bananas), millet bread, cassava (tapioca or manioc), sweet potatoes, chicken and beef stews, and freshwater fish. Other foods include white potatoes, yams, corn, cabbage, pumpkin, tomatoes, millet, peas, sorghum, beans, groundnuts (peanuts), goat meat, and milk. Oranges, papayas, lemons, and pineapples also are grown and consumed. The national drink is waragi , a banana gin. Restaurants in large population centers, such as Kampala (the capital), serve local foods. its found in all restaurants like...local dish restaurants and Hotels ie...Hotel Africana, Shelton Hotel, Serena Hotel and restaurants....Kitobelo Restaurant, Uhuru Restaurant in the city center, K2 restaurant located on Rubaga road. 

Basic Economy. Most food is produced domestically. Uganda exports various foodstuffs, including fish and fish products, corn, coffee, and tea. The environment provides good grazing land for cattle, sheep, and goats. Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80 percent of the workforce. Much production is organized by farmers' cooperatives. Smallholder farmers predominated in the 1960s and 1970s but declined as a result of civil conflict. In the 1980s, the government provided aid to farmers, and by the middle of the decade nearly a hundred ranches had been restocked with cattle.
Lakes, rivers and swamps cover about 20 percent of the land surface, and fishing is an important rural industry. The basic currency is the shilling.

KAALO(made out of millet and Sorghum)



In Uganda we got almost the same kind of food but we call it "Kaalo" made from Sorghum and millet.
its normally eaten in Western (Ankole),Eastern part of Uganda, in the central where we find almost every tribe, most local dish restaurant have all the foods.