Nyeri hotel where ‘mashakura’ all started

Simon Mwaniki( left) and a friend enjoying the meal at their premises. Kuku mutungo served at Sidai Oleng Restaurant.

 

• Former President Mwai Kibaki, Governor Mike Sonko among other dignitaries have tasted kuku mutungo
• Chicken is boiled together with the maize and eggs in a large sufuria

Mashakura. It is not really a new world. But it became popular after the Airtel television advert starring actress Shix Kapienga.

It connotes a meal of assorted food items prepared haphazardly. In reality though, mashakura (a corruption of chakula) refers to that popular platter comprising of chicken,   boiled eggs, maize, chips and nduma with slices of cucumber.