Gastronomia
Gastronomy
The Mozambican cuisine is talking about flavors that intertwine and what is impossible to resist.
Mozambique because he is facing the Indian Ocean, have many influences Indian, Goan and Chinese in food.
Curry is widely used throughout the kitchen from north to south, and his power base is corn.
The Mozambican cuisine is one of the best in the world, has a very rich heritage and a wide variety of recipes and spices of the highest gastronomic nature.
Apart from being very rich and varied, it has unparalleled taste and quality is almost unprecedented.
Zambezia Province
It is impossible to speak of Mozambican cuisine, not to mention one of the richest province in gastronomy: Zambezia.
She is famous for its traditional cuisine, very spicy.
Its cuisine is based on coconut and characterized by their excellence and appeal that makes the most demanding palates.
Its main courses to mukapatha the mucuane, snacks and chicken with goat zambeziana which is made with palm oil. And the famous desserts and Malambo Massana.
South Zone
In the South we find the famous chiguinha, various vegetables cooked in peanut and coconut base, in addition to seafood dishes that are typical of the coast.
Curry Peanut is one of the typical dishes of the south (Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane). It is this last province that has the habit of gathering coconuts in this dish.
For Mozambicans, Curry is the sauce, the liquid, which joins the rice or maize porridge which is called ushwa.
This may be accompanied by Tanabe vegetable sauces, such as cacana and Mboa and also shellfish, especially shrimp. Dried fish is also widely used.
Province of Cabo Delgado
The province of Cabo Delgado is known for its exotic local dishes cooked with cassava, sweet potato, green banana, Cassava leaves, pumpkin, beans, towering coconut milk.
Tete Province
The province of Tete, has several dishes that can please the visitor according to the tastes or preferences such as: white dough of corn with various types of curry, such as goat offal in the region known by the name of N ' Kong, Pende grilled or baked fish, various vegetables prepared in various ways.
You can taste the dough of sorghum machoeira.
Traditional Beverages:
This province produces the following Traditional Beverages:
- Dove, with different ingredients such as bran, sugar, maize flour
- Cachaco: The mechanical, bran, tamariz(USIC) and amarula(m’fula) respectively