Nyama Choma: Tanzanian Roasted Goat - African Street Food

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Nyama choma, roasted meat, is one of the most beloved things to eat in East Africa. Read more deliciousness here: Every Time I arrive back to East Africa, which is usually Kenya or Tanzania, it doesn't take long for me to get the craving for some proper nyama choma. Nyama choma means roasted meat, and you can usually order beef, chicken, or the most common meat: goat (also known as mbuzi choma Kiswahili. Though I ate plenty of nyama choma in Kenya during my growing up years, this video, and my most recent article and experiences are from Tanzania, in the Dar Es Salaam area. On one lazy Sunday afternoon, we decided to hit-up one of the truly local style nyama choma joints in the outskirts of town. This restaurant is actually not really a restaurant at all, but it's literally just someone's home who opens up their yard as a communal meat devouring and relaxing place. Every Sunday, they decide to hold goat roasts, or nyama choma feasts. There's a pen with live goats in the yard, and when there are enough customers, they slaughter one of the goats, and hang the fresh meat in the butchery. When customer begin to arrive, they select the chunks of meat that they wish to partake of, and the butcher will then slice it right off the goat carcass and throw it onto the grill. Eating nyama choma is a culture of its own. Most of the customers are men, and they go to a nyama choma restaurant with their friends to relax, normally drink plenty of beer, and chow down on free range and freshly cooked meat. So I arrived on Sunday afternoon, my mouth already watering to get a taste of that roasted goat, the smoke pouring over the entire yard in meaty goodness. We chose a 1 kilo section of meat off the goat leg and the butcher chopped it ferociously with his machete and threw it on the grill with nothing more than a handful of salt and MSG. Don't expect your nyama choma, or any other food you order in East Africa, to come quickly. Eating nyama choma is more of a leisure experience; You sit around and wait for 1 or 2 hours until the meat is finished cooking. Our meat took about 1. 5 hours or so, until it was done through and through. When your nyama choma is finished cooking, the butcher then grabs his big knife, places your hunk of meat on a chopping board, and slices through the goat meat like it's butter. He cuts it all up into bite sized pieces, puts it on a plate, and it's served with little more than a pile of salt on the side of the plate, some chili peppers, and lemon wedges on the side. Nyama choma is one of the great East African dining experiences. The goat meat is definitely on the chewy side, but you can just taste that incredible natural and free range flavor from the meat. I'm a huge fan of East African nyama choma
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Dirk Steyn
myth busted goat meat is not the most consumed meat in the world neither is goat meat eaten by the most people in the world nor is goat milk the most consumed milk in the world there simply are not that many goats in the world, not by the longest stretch of the imagination Susan Schoenian the worlds leading expert on goats (and sheep) University of Maryland Extension, USA
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Vinicius Souza
I think you have to be born eating this stuff to eat it I was born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, in a poor area where goat meat consumption is very common, my parents didnt make me eat it so when I was a teen i couldnt eat it haha, tried it once or twice but it simply cant. tried lamb once late in my 26's, again it wasnt a very pleasant experience
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Gussy Vangard
1: 42 how you care about even little things and wash your hands so you don't die of any bacteria on your dirty hands and on the other hand chop down a living animal into pieces mercilessly regardless how much pain it must have gone through, humans are drop dead CRUEL and SELFISH
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navidski
That food wasn't that nice at all. I can tell. You are too nice and polite to tell the truth. We all know what it means when one says it taste and smells very natural and works your jaws. But I wasn't expecting fine or even good cuisine there
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Manna Barbhuiya
That amount of cooked mutton for jusr 4. 8 USD which equivalent to almost 350 Indian rupees. pretty cheap though. Would have thried that amazing Tanzanian cuisine. but it would be too expensive travelling that far
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Indian citizen
Same table u cut the meat and then without washing the meat u seasoned it and then grilled it and then again used the same bloody table to cut the cooked meat. Man this is basic common sense
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Khalifa Cyrus
You know what's makes african food good it bcz we eat fresh and health food in the world and we are so welcoming we don't need anything else we are so thankful that God gave us that
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Shivam Kumar
Hey Mark I love all your videos u were such a amazing prsn even I am also a food lover. but I have one questions which camera you use for taking nd capturing videos. is it GOPRO?
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josh j
the way your face looked when you took your first bite, i can tell you didn't enjoy the food at all. you tried to cover it up to be nice and all but you and I know that's trash.
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Nana Minaj
Peoples hwo says enough of exaggeration If you will taste African food you'll never stop eating it every time it's sooo delicious I miss that so much
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