Meaning of katogo | Babel Free

Definitions

A traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple such as cassava or matoke (“mashed boiled bananas or plantains”) is added, all cooked in the same pot.

Uganda, uncountable

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Examples

“Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together.”

“For the child's third (and preferably fourth) meal, the D.S.M. can be mixed into katogo or mugoyo (beans cooked with plantain or sweet potato respectively), or into maize porridge (bwuji), or into mashed pawpaw, or into any cold food that is left over.”

“Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.”

“We have matooke and chicken, / Potatoes with smoked fish / Mingled into groundnuts sauce, / Cassava and beans mingled together … / Katogo.”

“Surely, a country cannot be run Katogo (mixed grill) style.”

“Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.”

“Shortly after the two boys had come, Maria, Hanja's wife, brought in a Katogo of peas, Irish potatoes and pumpkins.”

“In the Ugandan context the most popular tradition[al] breakfast meal is Katogo. [...] Katogo refers to a mixture of food items cooked together and is considered to be a widely popular morning meal in Uganda. There are many types and versions of Katogo, in rural as well as urban areas, whereby the original version was composed of matooke (a type of bananas) and beans, considered to be a meal for poor people.”

“It is a safe bet that if there is one common dish that is universal to Uganda, it would be katogo. [...] The word katogo literally means a 'mélange' or mixture of ingredients with one absolute must have; matooke. The process of cooking is done in the manner of braising in other words a combination of stewing and pot roasting. While no one has an exact chronology as to when Ugandans started cooking katogo, what is not in doubt is that as long as matooke has been around so has katogo.”

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