Stir fry the onion 5 minutes; add the potatoes and tomatoes and stir fry 5 minutes more. Add the remaining ingredients and pepper and salt to taste and bring this to the boil. Put the mixture in an oven dish and bake for 30-40 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius until the rice has soaked up the fluid.

This is a Ugandese dish. Uganda was a collection of kingdoms until the invasion of Arab traders in 1830. In 1860 British came looking for the Nile's source and between 1894 and 9 October 1962 Uganda was a British protectorate and the 9th of October has become Independence Day.  Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and worldwide history.