This is the true katogo king

Just when you think you have seen it all, then Ugandan restauranteurs throw in a surprise.

How many katogo (pottage) options can you name or come off with off head? Probably five or seven, made from either cassava, matooke or Irish potatoes.

At Racheal’s Food Point in Kyanja, they have 22 options. Yes, 22 breakfast options! You can only imagine how big and busy the chefs are in the morning or night before, preparing all these.

Of course, they also offer the usual suspects of katogo beef, katogo gnuts, katogo beans (with options of dry or fresh beans), katogo offals, katogo peas and katogo chicken. These all come at Shs 16,000 or Shs 18,000 if you want them appetized with ghee.

The unusual are katogo jazz made of matooke, Irish potatoes with beef, then katogo liver, katogo assorted chicken, katogo omelette, katogo combo made of matooke, pilau and chicken, among others. You can basically choose to have different katogo food from this place every day for a month (minus weekends) and you won’t repeat a meal once.

My choice was katogo assorted green vegetables which comes at Shs 15,000. It came as imagined – matooke fingers cooked together with dodo, carrots and tomatoes.

Nothing special about it as they try to keep it as organic and authentic as possible with very little oils, but that’s until you grease it with the white eshabwe sauce (which is made from aged cow ghee, salt and water).

The tasteful gliding magic suddenly appears; you might even end up eating more than you can stomach, after all, they fill the silver packs to the brim. No wonder eshabwe is considered prestigious and reserved for special occasions.

The eshabwe though will cost you an extra Shs 10,000. But even more impressive is how they manage to deliver the foods and juices without any spillage when you order online.

They even take extra care to pack their chapati in a foil so that it reaches when still hot.

fkisakye@observer.ug