Home-made food in Tanzania is very interesting, useful and is unlike any other cuisine in the world. In the interior of the country, the traditions of all neighboring African countries were mixed. On the coast there are a lot of restaurants of European cuisine, and white colonizers’ recipes are popular in the home cooking. Culinary traditions of peoples of the East are presented on the beautiful island of Zanzibar.

The basis of local and domestic cuisine is poultry meat. Other types of meat, including pork and beef, practically do not occur.

Furthermore, there are a variety of edible plants, berries, vegetables, even those that can not be found anywhere else.

At the same time, if a European tourist visits an expensive local restaurant, he will be offered a delicious national dish of crocodile, antelope and other African animals.

Local chefs have unique skills for making banana salad, as well as the meat of the warthog which you will not try anywhere else.

For great holidays, locals like to cook various dishes from duck, as well as ostrich fillets with the addition of fruit juices. Every single day locals eat a bean stew.

As a side dish, almost all dishes are served with various kinds of beans, porridges, the roots of edible and useful plants, as well as the potatoes that are habitual for us. Given the eastern population of the island of Zanzibar, spices and condiments, which have a beneficial effect on the health and quality of life of local residents, are very popular here.

As in many other African countries, there are exotic dishes for us. For tourists who love everything unusual, but tasty and useful, we recommend trying locusts and even termites.

The closer to the coastline, the greater the choice of delicious seafood at very affordable prices. In restaurants and markets you will be offered a huge selection of lobsters, shrimp, octopus, etc. Local people and cooks like to bake fish in the leaves of a banana tree, and as for seaweed, like in Japan, local people use them to prepare tasty and useful salads, beneficial for the health of local men.

All dishes of local and home cuisine are served with scones instead of bread. As a dessert, you can try pancakes with various natural fillings from fruits.

In Tanzania, they drink tea, juices with ice and local coffee of the best quality.