katogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Bantu katogo (“casserole, pot; stew”); while one author suggests the word is derived from Luganda, another has been suggested it is not possible to identify the specific Bantu language as the word is found in several of them.
Senses: examples: text: Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together.
ref: 1938, Primitive Man: Quarterly Bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, Washington, D.C.: Catholic Anthropological Conference, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:
text: For the child's third (and preferably fourth) meal, the D.S.M. can be mixed into katogo or mugoyo (beans cooked with plantain or sweet potato respectively), or into maize porridge (bwuji), or into mashed pawpaw, or into any cold food that is left over.
ref: 1959 December, D[errick] B. Jelliffe, R. F. A. Dean, “Protein-calorie Malnutrition in Early Childhood: (Practical Notes)”, in The Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and African Child Health, volume 5, number 3, London: Amberley House, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 99:
text: Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.
ref: 1980, Christine Obbo, African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence (Women in the Third World series), London: Zed Press, →ISBN, page 135:
text: We have matooke and chicken, / Potatoes with smoked fish / Mingled into groundnuts sauce, / Cassava and beans mingled together … / Katogo.
ref: 1995, Joseph J. Kagimu, “Stone Roof on Grass Walls”, in Tired! (Poets of Africa; 13), Kampala, Uganda: Kamenyero Publishing, →OCLC; republished Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers, 2000, →ISBN, page 19, column 2:
text: Surely, a country cannot be run Katogo (mixed grill) style.
ref: 2000 June 9, The Monitor, Kampala, Uganda: Monitor Publications, →OCLC; quoted in Eric Masinde Aseka, Transformational Leadership in East Africa: Politics, Ideology, and Community, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, 2005, →ISBN, page 372:
text: Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.
ref: 2006, Pecos Kutesa, Uganda’s Revolution, 1979–1986: How I Saw It, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 222:
text: Shortly after the two boys had come, Maria, Hanja's wife, brought in a Katogo of peas, Irish potatoes and pumpkins.
ref: 2009, Patricia Haward, Looking Back: Personal Memories of Uganda's Troubled Past, 1970–2000, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 144:
text: In the Ugandan context the most popular tradition[al] breakfast meal is Katogo. [...] Katogo refers to a mixture of food items cooked together and is considered to be a widely popular morning meal in Uganda. There are many types and versions of Katogo, in rural as well as urban areas, whereby the original version was composed of matooke (a type of bananas) and beans, considered to be a meal for poor people.
ref: 2017, William Wagaba, “How Do People in Uganda have Breakfast?”, in Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik: The German Journal of Food Studies and Hospitality, volume 1, Munich, Bavaria: Iudicium Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter 3 (Einstieg in die transnationale Früstücksforschung – Starting Research into Breakfast: English Summaries of 13 Regional Studies in Kulinaristik des Früstücks. Breakfast across Cultures. (2018)), page 394:
text: It is a safe bet that if there is one common dish that is universal to Uganda, it would be katogo. [...] The word katogo literally means a 'mélange' or mixture of ingredients with one absolute must have; matooke. The process of cooking is done in the manner of braising in other words a combination of stewing and pot roasting. While no one has an exact chronology as to when Ugandans started cooking katogo, what is not in doubt is that as long as matooke has been around so has katogo.
ref: 2018 July 29, A. Kadumukasa Kironde II, “Get to know what katogo is”, in Sunday Monitor, Kampala, Uganda: Monitor Publications, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018:
glosses: A traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple such as cassava or matoke (“mashed boiled bananas or plantains”) is added, all cooked in the same pot.
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