The Calabash African Restaurant

Samosa

Deep fried thin, tri-shaped pastry filled with seasoned lamb OR seasonal vegetables, served with a slice of lemon

from £4.00

Peri peri Chicken Wings

Flamed grilled marinated peri peri chicken wings, served with salad

£5.00

Cassava (Manioc) (V)

Deep fried Cassava slices, served with a hot & sweet chilli sauce

£5.00

Githeri Salad

£5.00

Chicken livers

Warmly prepared and served with bread

£5.00

Mchuzi Wa Kuku (Chicken Curry)

Simmered portions of chicken with mixed vegetables & a special East

African blend of spices....

Served with rice.

£11.95

Khima Curry

A Tanzanian style minced lamb curry with mixed vegetables with a blend of African spices.

Served with rice.

£11.00

Lamb Curry

Lamb cubes curry. Served with rice.

£9.95

Lamb & Tomato Stew

Slowly stewed chunks of Lamb with sweet ripe tomatoes with a special

Calabash blend of African Spices....

Served with rice.

£11.99

Madodo (V)

African Kidney Beans stew with tomato, onions capsicum & mixed

spices....

Served with rice.

£9.95

Vegetarian Special (V)

Spinach slathered in a tomato & peanut butter sauce & served with

whole roast plantain.**

£12.00

Katogo (Ugandan Dish) (V)

Green bananas stewed with lamb, tomato, onions & mixed spices.

No side

£12.95

'The Mama Special' Muriyo wa nyama (V)

Served with Sadza. succulent portions of lamb cooked with a mixture of

spinach & sukuma wiki served with ugali just like Mama makes or seerved with rice.

£11.00

Coconut Rice (Wali Wa Nazi) (V)

Rice cooked in coconut milk, special blend of spices, mixed vegetables, chicken  and £1 extra for lamb

from £9.99

Caribbean Goat Curry

Marinated flavours of curry powder, chopped onion, escallion, garlic,

ginger, thyme and scotch bonnet slowely cooked with chunks of goat...

meat and potatoes

£11.99

Zim Oxtail Soup

£13.00

Jumbo Tapas

A delicious taste of African cuisine containing a portion of ugali,

mukimo, plantain, coconut rice, nyama choma, kuku choma, khiama curry, spinach, boerewors all superbly flavoured local delicacies with kachumbari (African salsa) & BBQ dip. Sharer enough for Three

£100.00

Beyayenetu

A selection of different vegetarian dishes served with injera.

Served with salad.

£14.99

Chikina Awaze Tibis

Lamb cubes sauteed with onion, tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno, butter and

awaze served with salad and injera

£13.99

Special Tibis

Sizzling lamb cubes, toasted in a blend of house spices, onions and

mixed peppers served with salad and injera

£13.99

Doro Wot

Marinated dish, chicken stew in spicy red pepper and boiled egg served

with salad and injera

£13.99

Peanut Soup

Traditional Gambian soup made with meat, tomatoes, peanuts and

African spices.** Served with rice or pounded yam

£13.00

Pepper Soup - No Side

Very spicy soup made with assorted types of meats mostly tripe.

Kidneys and Goat meat seasoned with pepper and other spices.

£10.95

Fish Pepper Soup - No Side

£11.00

West African Soup

(Served with Rice or Pounded Yam)

Hot spiced ground melon seed soup cooked with tripe, goat meat and...

crayfish. Highly nutritious and very satisfying

from £13.00

Jollof Rice Chicken

Boiled Rice in a tomato sauce & mixed peppers curry, served with fried

chicken or pan fried spinach

£10.00

Isi Ewu Goat / Lamb Head - No side - Goat Head

Slowly boiled goat / lamb head with a blend of African herbs & spices.

Nigerian Style - no side

£18.00

Mshikaki (Bruschette) Skewers Chips

Flame grilled spiced Lamb, onions & mixed peppers skewers, served

with deep fried East African Green Bananas or Chips

£11.00

Nyama Choma (roast meat)

Flame grilled (roasted) marinated & lightly spiced lamb meat; with a

choice of Fry option (£1.00 extra) - Flame grilled then pan fried with...

tomato, onions & spices. No side

Served with chilli and kachumbari.

from £10.00

Kuku Choma (roast chicken) Peri Peri Sauce - Half

Flame grilled chicken marinated in peri-peri OR reggae-reggae sauce

Served with chips & salad

£12.00

The Calabash Mixed Grill

Portions of mshikaki, chicken wings, nyama choma, mixed peppers & side salad

£15.50

Samaki Choma

Deep fried fresh water tilapia fish. Deep fried Tilapia Fish served on a

bed of salad with the special calabash fish sauce & slices of lemon

from £11.50

Jerk Chicken

Quarter chicken lovingly marinated in jerk spices and grilled to perfection served with caribbean rice and peas.

£11.00

Caribbean Goat Curry

Marinated flavours of curry powder, chopped onions, escallion, garlic, ginger, thyme and scotch bonnet slowly cooked with chunks of goat meat and potatoes.

£12.00

Rice

Plain white boiled basmati rice

£4.00

Ugali (V)

(Sadza, Nshima, Fufu Corn) - Maize meal flour made into

a soft mash

£4.00

Mukimo (V)

Traditional Kenyan mash of potatoes, green peas, corn

and greens sautéed with onions

£5.00

Pounded Yam (V)

Yam flour cooked into a soft mash

£4.00

Pounded Gari (V)

Yam flour cooked into a soft mash

£4.00

Spinach (V)

Leafy greens sautéed with tomato, red onions and

mixed spices

£4.00

Chips (V)

Deep fried

£4.00

Sweet Potato Chips

£5.00

Kwanga (V)

(Manioc) - Fermented Cassava flour mash

£5.00

Green Bananas (V)

Deep fried slices of African green banana

£4.00

Plantain (V)

Deep fried Tropical cooking bananas (Yellow plantain).

£5.00

Sukuma Wiki (V)

Fresh Kale cooked with special Calabash sauce

and lightly seasoned

£5.00

Fried Rice

Basmati rice fried with onions & mixed peppers, seasoned

with special spices

£5.00

Kachumbari

(African salsa) tomato,onions, coriander and lemon juice

(Side not offered with main meals)

£3.00

Chapati

Unleavened home-made wheat flour flatbread

(Side not offered with main meals)

£5.00

Cassava Chips

Deep fried portions of Cassava

£4.00

Calabash Hot Chilli

£1.00

Cake of the day

£4.00

Murzig Masaai/ Kalenjin desert

£4.00

Sticky Toffee Pudding

served with Ice Cream

£4.00

Plantain served with Custard

£5.00

Mango Lassi

£4.00

(Nigerian) Guiness Foreign Extra Stout - 33cl 18+

7.5% ABV

£3.00

African Fanta - 500ml

£3.50

Bitter Lemon Schwepps - 29cl

£2.50

Malta Guinness - 33cl

£2.50

Barbican (Pineapple) - 33cl

£3.00

Coke

£2.00

Diet Coke

£2.00

Irnbru

£2.00

Diet Irnbru

£2.00

Redbull

£3.00

Ginger Beer

£2.00