However, I love chapati every time that I eat it! It's so good to eat on its own or with vegetables and sauce. This is definitely my favorite new food that I have tried. The peanut sauce is good as well. I don't typically eat a lot of it, but it is a tasty addition to meals.
Rwandans eat a lot of starches! I have had many dishes of rice, different kinds of potatoes and bananas (like plantains-they aren't as sweet as fruity bananas). Rwandans simply boil the potatoes, rice and bananas, but sometimes they also fry the bananas afterward. I really like eating them this way. Potatoes are often cooked into fries as well.
Going back to the cassava, many Rwandans just mix flour and water by hand to make the dough. Then they boil the dough for a short time. Chapati is a similar story-the ingredients are just flour, water and salt. However, the dough is rolled into spheres and baked into bread.
As far as the peanut sauce, I am not so sure about how it is prepared. I think groundnuts are crushed very finely and some kind of cream or milk is added.
Additionally, meat is a bit expensive for the typical Rwandan, so it has not been a main part of my diet here at all.
As I mentioned, cassava is a main crop in Rwanda. Even when weather conditions are not good for other crops, cassava will still grow. The cuisine is actually very much attached to the environment. Everything in the diet is pretty much grown locally in this country.
