Comoros

🇰🇲Comoros

Ndrovi ya Nazi

Fish or meat cooked with green bananas or plantains and spices in coconut milk; similar to M'tsolola but without tomato and onions; a traditional Comorian stew.

🇰🇪Kenya

Nyama Choma

Kenya's unofficial national dish: grilled goat or sheep meat over open fire, eaten with hands, ugali, and kachumbari

🇰🇲Comoros

Octopus Curry

Cari de Poulpe

Octopus simmered in a coconut-based curry with Comorian spices; especially popular during the octopus fishing season openings around the islands.

🇰🇲Comoros

Pilaou

Mahorais Pilao

A fragrant Comorian spiced rice dish with beef, chicken, or fish; the rice is cooked with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, turmeric, saffron, tomatoes, and onions; Arab-influenced, often prepared for special occasions.

🇰🇪Kenya

Pilau

A coastal Swahili spiced rice with meat, cardamom, cloves, and cinnamon, a festive and daily classic

🇰🇲Comoros

Roti ya Houma Pampa

A Comorian griddled flatbread rolled around a savoury filling and eaten hot from island stalls.

🇰🇲Comoros

Rougaille de Poisson Salé

Rehydrated salt cod slowly simmered in a rich tomato-onion sauce with garlic, ginger, chili, turmeric, and coriander; can include vegetables like carrots, green beans, and bell peppers; a Portuguese-influenced Comorian dish.

🇰🇲Comoros

Saladi ya Matunda

A mixed tropical fruit salad with orange, mango, pineapple, cantaloupe, and banana dressed with lime juice and simple syrup; garnished with grated coconut and roasted peanuts; a refreshing Comorian dessert.

🇲🇬Madagascar

Sambos

Small triangular pastries filled with minced beef, potato or fish and fried, sold three or four to a bag.

🇰🇲Comoros

Samboussa

Samoussa Comorien

A Comorian version of the samosa: a triangular pastry filled with spiced ground beef, onions, garlic, curry, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, and saffron; wrapped in brick pastry or filo and fried or baked; a popular snack and street food.

🇩🇯Djibouti

Sambusa

ሳምቡሳ

Crispy triangular fried pastries stuffed with spiced lentils, beans or beef. The Ethiopian-Eritrean cousin of the Indian samosa, beloved at fasting tables, breakfast spreads and Ramadan iftars.

🇬🇵Guadeloupe

Samosa

समोसा

A crisp South Asian pastry is folded around spiced potato, peas, onion, or meat, then fried and served with chutney

🇰🇲Comoros

Shihondro

Caramelized peanut candy, a traditional sweet eaten in the Comoros; a simple confection showcasing local peanuts and the island love of sweet snacks.

🇰🇲Comoros

Soupe Faux Pois

A Comorian pigeon-pea soup simmered with tomato, aromatics and coconut, served as a warming island bowl.