Angola

🇦🇴Angola

Angolan Piri-Piri Chicken

Frango piri-piri

Chicken split and grilled over coals under a fierce marinade of piri-piri, garlic, lemon and palm oil.

🇦🇴Angola

Arroz de Marisco

Wet rice cooked with prawns, squid, clams and white fish in a tomato and coriander broth.

🇦🇴Angola

Beans in Palm Oil

Feijão de óleo de palma

Butter beans stewed slowly in red palm oil with onion and garlic until the oil separates orange on top.

🇵🇹Portugal

Bolinhos de Bacalhau

Crisp salt cod and potato fritters, a national snack found in every tasca.

🇦🇴Angola

Cabidela

Chicken cooked in its own blood with vinegar, garlic, tomato and onion until the sauce goes dark and glossy.

🇦🇴Angola

Caldeirada de Cabrito

Goat stewed with potato, onion, tomato, wine and bay into a heavy casserole eaten on Independence Day.

🇦🇴Angola

Calulu

Dried fish and fresh fish cooked together with okra, sweet potato leaves, gimboa, tomato, onion and palm oil into a dense stew.

🇦🇴Angola

Caporoto

A clear spirit distilled from fermented maize in Malanje province.

🇦🇴Angola

Catatos

Palm caterpillars fried hard with garlic and served with rice or funge.

🇦🇴Angola

Cerveja N'Gola

N'Gola

A lager brewed in Lubango in the southern highlands, the south's answer to Luanda's Cuca.

🇦🇴Angola

Chikuanga

Fermented cassava dough wrapped tightly in banana leaves and steamed into a dense, sour loaf that keeps for days.

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Cocada Amarela

Grated coconut cooked in sugar syrup and thickened with egg yolks and cinnamon into a dense yellow pudding.

🇦🇴Angola

Cuca

A pale lager brewed in Luanda since 1963 and the beer most Angolans order by default.

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Doce de Ginguba

Roasted peanuts set in boiled sugar and cut into hard, chewy squares.

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Funge

Cassava flour beaten into boiling water with a wooden stick until it forms a smooth, elastic grey paste, torn off by hand and used to carry stew.

🇦🇴Angola

Gimboa

A soft-leaved local green, close to spinach, that goes into calulu and is sold in tied bundles at every market.

🇦🇴Angola

Gindungo

Small hot chillies crushed with garlic, onion and oil — and sometimes a splash of brandy — into a fierce table sauce.

🇦🇴Angola

Jinguinga

Goat tripe and offal cooked in blood with vinegar and gindungo, a speciality of Malanje.

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Kissangua

Maize flour fermented lightly with water and sometimes pineapple skin into a cloudy, sour drink used in southern ceremonies as well as drunk cold.

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Kitaba

Roasted peanuts pounded coarse with chilli and salt into a crunchy, oily paste eaten with bread or funge.

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Kitetas

Small clams from the Luanda coast cooked in white wine, garlic and coriander and eaten from the shell with bread.

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Kizaka

Cassava leaves pounded fine and cooked slowly with ground peanuts, palm oil and dried fish.

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Leite Azedo com Pirão

Leite azedo com pirão de milho

Soured milk poured over stiff maize porridge, the everyday meal of the southern cattle-herding provinces.

🇦🇴Luanda, Angola

Luanda Fish Roll

Pão com peixe frito

A fried fish fillet pushed into a crusty roll with raw onion, vinegar and gindungo, sold from roadside kitchens.

🇦🇴Angola

Maluva

Palm sap tapped into a gourd and left to ferment through the day into a cloudy palm wine.

🇦🇴Angola

Moamba de Galinha

Muamba de galinha

Chicken stewed in red palm oil and palm-nut pulp with okra, garlic and gindungo until the sauce turns deep orange.

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Moamba de Ginguba

Muamba de ginguba

The same stew built on ground roasted peanuts instead of palm-nut pulp, thicker and browner.

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Molho Cru

Raw garlic, spring onion, parsley, cumin, vinegar and water stirred together and poured over grilled fish.

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Mufete

Grilled fish served with boiled cassava, sweet potato, fried plantain, beans in palm oil and a raw onion-and-vinegar sauce, all on one plate.

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Muzongue

A thick broth of fresh and dried fish with palm oil, sweet potato, tomato, onion and greens.

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Ngonguenha

Toasted cassava flour stirred with sugar and milk or water into a thick, sandy sweet eaten by the spoon.

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Ovingundu

Honey fermented with water into a mead brewed in the central highlands.

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Palm Grasshoppers

Gafanhotos de palmeira

Grasshoppers gathered from palm trees, toasted with salt and eaten by the handful or served with game meat.

🇦🇴Angola

Pavê de Ginguba

Layers of biscuit and ground-peanut cream chilled into a set icebox cake.

🇦🇴Angola

Pirão

Maize flour cooked into a stiff yellow porridge, the southern Angolan counterpart to cassava funge.

🇦🇴Angola

Prawns with Okra

Quiabos com camarão

Prawns cooked with okra, tomato, onion and palm oil into a slippery, orange stew.