country Essentials · 12 foods
Angola Essentials
A considered first route through Angola: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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12 foods to know.
Each selection includes the reason it belongs here—so this is a guide, not just a pile of names.
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Funge
Beaten with a stick until elastic, torn by hand, and the carrier for everything else.
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Moamba de Galinha
Muamba de galinha
Chicken in palm-nut pulp and red palm oil, served with funge and rice at once.
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Calulu
Dried and fresh fish cooked together with okra and gimboa until the ishtu goes dense.
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Mufete
Grilled fish with cassava, plantain and palm-oil beans, eaten on the Luanda island on Sundays.
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Gindungo
Chilli crushed with garlic and sometimes brandy, and every house claims a different recipe.
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Cocada Amarela
Coconut and egg yolk cooked into a yellow pudding thick enough to stand a spoon in.
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Muzongue
The fish broth eaten the morning after a party, oily and heavily peppered.
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Cuca
Brewed in Luanda since 1963 and what arrives if you just ask for a beer.
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Kitaba
Roasted peanuts pounded coarse with chilli — gritty and hot, nothing like peanut butter.
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Kizaka
Pounded cassava leaves cooked long with peanuts and dried fish, beside the funge.
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Maluva
Tapped from the palm at dawn and sour by evening, sold from jerrycans at the roadside.
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Caldeirada de Cabrito
Goat on the bone stewed with wine and bay, cooked in quantity every 11 November.