Beef Mshikaki

About Our Beef Mshikaki

Mshikaki is coastal Kenya's contribution to the world of grilled meat: cubes of beef marinated long and hard, threaded onto skewers, and cooked fast over charcoal. The marinade is what makes it - a proper mshikaki marinade tenderises the meat as much as it flavours it, and that takes time, which is why we ask for two days' notice.

Each skewer is KSh 150, with a minimum order of 10 pieces. We marinate them in-house and hand them to you ready to grill. Because the beef has already been worked on by the marinade, they cook in minutes over hot coals - three or four minutes a side is usually plenty, and any longer starts to dry them out.

Mshikaki is the centrepiece of a choma spread rather than a side dish. Order them with our goat and lamb ribs and beef sausages and you have a table nobody complains about. Give us two days, and see our nyama choma page for full pack suggestions.

How to Cook Beef Mshikaki

• Please order two days in advance - the marinade needs that time to work.
• Hot coals, 3-4 minutes a side. Mshikaki cooks fast because it is already tenderised.
• Soak wooden skewers in water for 30 minutes first if you are re-skewering.
• Do not add extra salt - the marinade is already seasoned.
• Serve straight off the grill with kachumbari, lemon and pili pili.

Buying beef mshikaki in Nairobi

We cut beef mshikaki at Stall 55, ground floor, City Market, Muindi Mbingu Street, in the Nairobi CBD - the same stall Kamundia Butchery has traded from since 1959. Walk in any day - Monday to Saturday 6:30am - 7:00pm, Sunday 9:00am - 5:00pm - and buy it over the counter, or order here and we will deliver it chilled. Orders placed before 4:00pm go out the same day across the CBD, Westlands, Kilimani, Karen and everywhere else we serve.

Buying in quantity? We supply restaurants, hotels, schools and canteens across Nairobi with standing orders and whole-carcass pricing - see wholesale and bulk supply, or call 0707 700511 to talk it through.