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🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Accara

Black-eyed peas peeled, ground and whipped with onion and chilli, then dropped into hot oil and served in bread with pepper sauce.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Banana Fritters

Fidjós

Fried fritters made with mashed banana and flour; sweet, golden, and crispy; a popular street snack across Guinea-Bissau, sold at markets and roadside stalls; the Portuguese name reflects the Lusophone culinary vocabulary.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Donetes

Small fried dough pastries similar to doughnuts; sweet, round, and dusted with sugar; a Portuguese-influenced street snack sold at markets and bakeries in Bissau and towns across Guinea-Bissau.

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Fartura

A Portuguese-influenced Guinea-Bissau fried-dough snack, served hot from street stalls.

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

Fish and Peanut Fritters

Bolinhos de Mancarra com Peixe

Guinea-Bissau fritters combining seasoned fish with ground peanut, shaped and fried until crisp.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Shrimp Pastries

Rissóis

Small fried pastries filled with shrimp in a béchamel-style sauce; a Portuguese-influenced snack adapted with local Atlantic shrimp; half-moon shaped with a crisp breadcrumb coating; sold at snack bars and made at home.

🇬🇼Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Tuna Pastry

Pastel

Savory fried pastry filled with tuna; a Portuguese-influenced empanada-style snack adapted with local canned tuna; half-moon shaped, golden, and crispy; sold at street stalls and bakeries across Guinea-Bissau.