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Mozambique Essentials
A considered first route through Mozambique: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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11 foods to know.
Each selection includes the reason it belongs here—so this is a guide, not just a pile of names.
Mozambique
Matapa
Cassava leaves cooked with groundnuts and coconut, Mozambique's defining green stew.
Mozambique
Matata
Mozambican clams cooked with peanut, coconut and aromatics as a coastal dish.
Mozambique
Galinha à Zambeziana
Frango à Zambeziana
Chicken grilled or braised with coconut and chili from Mozambique's Zambezia coast.
Mozambique
Piri-Piri Chicken
Frango piri-piri
Chicken marinated and grilled with fiery piri-piri, a Mozambican restaurant classic.
Mozambique
Galinha Cafreal
Charcoal-grilled chicken rubbed with chili, garlic and citrus in Mozambican style.
Mozambique
Mozambican Prego
Prego no pão
Garlic-and-chili beef steak in a crusty roll, a Portuguese-Mozambican café staple.
Mozambique
Bolo Polana
Cashew-and-potato cake served at Maputo celebrations, rich and finely textured.
Mozambique
Caril de Caranguejo
Crab simmered with coconut, tomato and chili in a Mozambican coastal curry.
Mozambique
Arroz de Coco
Rice cooked in fresh coconut milk as the fragrant side for Mozambican seafood.
Mozambique
Mozambican Pudim
Pudim
A Mozambican baked pudding served chilled after family meals and celebrations.
Mozambique
Xiguinha
A rare cassava-and-peanut preparation retained as a distinctive northern Mozambican dish.