An African Tasting Menu

An African tasting menu. Photo credit: Singita Grumeti Reserves.

Crave adventure and culinary travel?  Then you might fancy Singita Grumeti Reserves (Tanzania) which has introduced an African Tasting Menu.

An award-winning, 5-star safari company, Singita Grumeti Reserves offers this new culinary option which blends international cuisine with the traditional foods of East Africa.

Dining by lantern.

The main epicurean influence is Swahili cuisine which will be served at the1920’s-styled Singita Sabora Tented Camp.

Guests will dine on local dishes including mtori, a thick, traditional soup made from onions, green bananas and meat.

Mezze style platters will be served with dishes such as dagaa mchuzi, dried fish cooked in peanut tomato sauce; mchicha, wild spinach blanched or sautéed with sunflower oil, tomato and onion; and kitandu cha nyama, a meat stew cooked with bitter local greens.

Staple African foods including ugali made from finely ground dried corn caked; pilau and wali (rice cooked in coconut milk served with meat and stew) and piri piri (Swahili for ‘pepper’) and nyama choma, a barbecued meat, will also be on the safari menus.

Each of Singita’s four lodges in the Grumeti Reserves will be staffed by expert chefs.

Local fresh water fish tilapia and chapatis, a type of roti, served with curries and coconut will be items on the Singita’s menus.

Organic home grown vegetables will be sourced from surrounding villages.

Local Tanzanian beers, including Kilimanjaro, Tusker and Serengeti, and a East African vodka, lime and honey cocktail called a dawa will be available.

Non-alcoholic local chai tea and Kilimanjaro filter coffee will also be served.

For more info, visit Singita online.