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🇧🇷Brazil

Caldeirada de Peixe

A Brazilian Amazonian fish stew of tambaqui or other river fish simmered with tomatoes, onions, peppers and potatoes. Eaten with rice and farofa in the north.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Cape Verdean Feijoada

Feijoada

Bean stew made with feijão pedra (rock beans) or pinto beans, salt-pork, chouriço, cabbage, carrots, and squash in a light-colored tomato broth.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Gambian Oyster Stew

Oyster Stew

Oysters from the Gambia's creeks simmered with onion, pepper, palm oil, and other seafood into a quick, briny stew.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Groundnut Stew

Domoda

A thick groundnut stew made with peanut paste, tomato, onion, chilli, and meat or fish, usually with sweet potato, pumpkin, cassava, or carrot over rice.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Maafe

Sauce d'arachide

Beef, lamb or chicken stewed in a groundnut paste and tomato sauce with cassava, carrot and sweet potato, served over rice.

🇬🇼Southern Guinea-Bissau (Quinara / Tombali Palm Oil), Guinea-Bissau

Palm Fruit Stew

Caldo de Chabéu

Fish or chicken stew prepared with palm fruit extract (chabéu), okra, and vegetables, served with rice; the palm fruit is boiled, pounded, and sieved to create a thick red sauce that gives the stew a rich, earthy flavour distinct from plain palm oil.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Peanut Stew

Caldo de Mancarra

Peanut-based stew made with ground peanut paste, chicken or beef, tomatoes, onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, ginger, and chili; served with rice or cassava; the Guinean-Bissau version of West African mafé, using the Portuguese name mancarra for peanut.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Red Palm Oil Stew

Caldo de Citi

Fish stew in a red palm oil base with chilies, tomatoes, and fermented locust bean paste (nététu); the palm oil gives a deep orange colour and rich flavour, while the nététu adds umami depth; a quintessential Guinean-Bissau dish served with rice.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Sigá

Stew of palm oil, okra, and meat or fish, served with white rice; the okra gives a slippery, mucilaginous texture while the palm oil provides a rich orange colour; a daily dish in Guinea-Bissau's palm-growing southern and coastal regions.

🇬🇲The Gambia

Superkanja

Supa Kanja

A viscous okra stew with beef, smoked catfish, onion, chilli, and red palm oil, sometimes enriched with crab or prawns and served over rice.