Ndizi na nyama

  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Tanzanian braise of green plantain, beef, tomatoes and coconut milk; a complete main dish without a side.

6 servingsFinal yield 3,050 g

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Ingredients

  • 1,000 gPlantains, green, raw
  • 700 gBeef, chuck, arm pot roast, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, choice, raw
  • 300 gNuts, coconut milk, raw (liquid expressed from grated meat and water)
  • 450 gTomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average
  • 250 gOnions, raw
  • 25 gGarlic, raw
  • 30 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 500 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 6 gSalt, table

Method

  1. Peel plantains and cut into 3 cm pieces. Cut beef into 3 cm cubes and chop onion and garlic.
  2. Fry onion in oil for 7 minutes at 175 °C, add garlic for 1 minute. Add beef and fry for 5 minutes.
  3. Add tomatoes, coconut milk, 500 g water and salt. Braise covered for 40 minutes at 90 °C.
  4. Add plantain and cook covered for a further 25 minutes at 90 °C until beef is tender and plantain is cooked through.
  5. Divide all of the braise with its juices into six portions.

Recipe tradition

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
4,436.5 kcal
Protein
161.7 g
Fat
233.5 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
432.3 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
38.8 g
Saturated fatty acids
121.5 g
Sodium
2,888.8 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
7.2 g

Per serving

Energy from macronutrients
Protein: 26.9 g, 14%Fat: 38.9 g, 47%Total carbohydrate (by difference): 72.1 g, 39%739.4 kcalper serving
  • Protein26.9 g14%
  • Fat38.9 g47%
  • Total carbohydrate (by difference)72.1 g39%

Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.

Energy
739.4 kcal
Protein
26.9 g
Fat
38.9 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
72.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
6.5 g
Saturated fatty acids
20.2 g
Sodium
481.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.2 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
145.5 kcal
Protein
5.3 g
Fat
7.7 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
14.2 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
1.3 g
Saturated fatty acids
4 g
Sodium
94.7 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.24 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains none of the 14 main allergens.

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal