If you note clearly, the mahindi choma guy is strategically placed, outside a busy supermarket or near a bus terminus(stage) and maaaan, there business booms, ever busy roasting mahindi. If you are lucky enough you’ll get one already waiting for you.
Especially this cold season, their business is doing better than Safaricom..Kenyans might resist everything, but when it comes to mahindi choma. They will resist you at all causes, nobody messes with ” their mahindi choma.” Most especially this season.
The mahindi choma guy needs no advertising, you’ll just see the mahindi roasting and smell the oooh ever sweet scent of roasting mahindi’s that will leave your mouth as watery as the pacific..and shazam, you know he is around and ready to be of service.
Roasted maize is a cheap, easy to eat and filling irresistible snack. In the streets, roasted maize goes for about KES 20.00 for an entire piece, but this may be slightly higher or lower depending on where you are (in more affluent areas, it tends to be higher and cheaper in local towns – especially those known to be maize growing areas. It is all about market segmentation and laws of supply and demand).
Ingredients
- Green mature maize.
- Salt, chillies, and lime for seasoning.
Method
- Peel off the green leaves covering the fresh maize and place them on a wire mesh over a charcoal fire. This is the Kenyan way of roasting maize, although you could put the maize in an oven.
- Roast until the maize attains an even golden brown colour.
- Apply a mixture of lime, salt and pepper for seasoning.