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katogo

Syllables: ka·to·go/kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/

katogo noun: 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.

katogo: a traditional breakfast dish consisting of a sauce containing legumes and offal to which a staple...
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Noun

katogo (uncountable)

  1. (Uganda) 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.
    • Katogo is a dish made of bananas and beans mashed together.1938, Primitive Man: Quarterly Bulletin of the Catholic Anthropological Conference, Washington, D.C.: Catholic Anthropological Conference, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28
    • 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.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...

Examples of katogo in a sentence

  • Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.1980, Christine Obbo, African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence (Women in the Third World series), London: Zed Press, →ISBN...
  • We have matooke and chicken, / Potatoes with smoked fish / Mingled into groundnuts sauce, / Cassava and beans mingled together … / Katogo.1995, Joseph J. Kagimu, “Stone Roof on Grass Walls”, in Tired! (Poets of Africa; 13), Kampala, Uganda: Kamenyero Publishing, →OCLC...
  • Surely, a country cannot be run Katogo (mixed grill) style.2000 June 9, The Monitor, Kampala, Uganda: Monitor Publications, →OCLC; quoted in Eric Masinde Aseka, Transformational Leadership in East...
  • Katogo is that meal, a Ugandan delicacy, prepared from a mixture of foodstuffs like matooke, cassava, beans, greens, meat etc.2006, Pecos Kutesa, Uganda’s Revolution, 1979–1986: How I Saw It, Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, →ISBN, page 222:

Origin of katogo

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.

Questions about katogo

What does katogo mean?
Katogo means 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.
How do you use katogo in a sentence?
Cassava mixed with beans (katogo or nyoyo) cost the same but plain cassava with salt cost as little as one shilling a plate.
What part of speech is katogo?
Katogo is a noun.
How do you pronounce katogo?
Katogo is pronounced /kɑˈtoʊɡoʊ/ (UK).

Words near katogo in the dictionary

  1. Katochs
  2. katoey
  3. katoeys
  4. katoforite
  5. katoforites
  6. katogo
  7. Katoh
  8. Katohs
  9. katoite
  10. katolimenic
  11. Katonah

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