Comoros
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Pilao (Comoros)
The islands' festive pilaf: Comorian pilao — rice cooked in a spiced coconut or meat broth with cardamom and cinnamon, served at weddings (grand mariage) with fried bananas and meat. Ingredients: rice, beef or goat, onio…
Langouste à la Vanille
The vanilla lobster: langouste à la vanille — spiny lobster in a vanilla-cream sauce, the famous dish of Mohéli where vanilla and lobster meet. Ingredients: spiny lobster, vanilla pods, cream or coconut cream, butter, ga…
Mkatra Foutra (Coconut Bread)
The coconut bread: mkatra foutra (mkatra siniya's kin) — a swirled coconut flatbread cooked in a pan, eaten with curries and teas across the islands. Ingredients: flour, coconut milk, yeast, sugar, salt, sesame or nigell…
Mataba (Comoros)
The banana and meat stew: mataba — green bananas and cassava simmered with beef and coconut milk and cassava leaves into Mayotte and Grande Comore's hearty pot. Ingredients: green bananas, cassava, beef, cassava leaves,…
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