Mbaazi in coconut milk

This is a very popular dish in the coast. Usually served with mahamri/mandazi. Though they use the dried mbaazi, I used the green mbaazi (pigeon peas) for this recipe.

mbaazi an the garlic — the mbaazi and garlic

I have to admit, that was way too much garlic, if you make this dish, cut that down to three or four cloves.

grate the garlic and fry it in some oil and a bit of water to keep it from burning/turning brown

once the garlic softens add the mbaazi and stir

I’ve been reading around on the web and I’ve learned that the thick coconut milk, the one you get from the first squeeze, is not supposed to boil or heat up for too long. So you cook with the lighter batches and add the think one at the end.