
Mozambique
Prawn Curry
Caril de camarão
Prawns cooked in a coconut milk curry with tomato, onion, turmeric and piri-piri, the Indian Ocean trade written into one pot.
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Mozambique
Caril de camarão
Prawns cooked in a coconut milk curry with tomato, onion, turmeric and piri-piri, the Indian Ocean trade written into one pot.

Mozambique
A fragrant Mozambican orange custard pudding with caramelised top.

Mozambique
A spiced Mozambican honey cake served with tea.

Mozambique
Onion, tomato, garlic and piri-piri sweated slowly in oil into the base that almost every Mozambican pot starts from.

Portugal
Breaded and fried savory turnovers filled with shrimp, meat, or cod.

Mozambique
Ripe avocado sweetened and served as a creamy Mozambican dessert.

Brazil
Suco de caju
Tangy, vitamin-C-rich juice made from the cashew apple, the fleshy fruit that grows above the cashew nut. Common in Brazil's northeast and sold at juice bars and markets.

Mozambique
Coconut palm sap tapped into a gourd and left to ferment through the day into a sour, cloudy palm wine.

Mozambique
A Mozambican fortified red drink with a sweet, warming profile, served chilled or mixed.

Mozambique
Whole fish baked in a sauce of green mango, tomato and chilli until the mango collapses into it.

Mozambique
A clear spirit distilled in villages from fermented cashew fruit or sugar cane.

Mozambique
A Mozambican cassava or leafy preparation cooked with peanut or coconut in local kitchens.

Mozambique
A dense base of cassava, ground peanut and coconut milk cooked thick, into which greens, dried fish or beans are folded.

Malawi
Maize flour stirred into boiling water until stiff enough to hold a shape, torn off in pieces by hand and used to scoop stew.