Malagasy recipes

This sweet dessert comes from the vicinity of the port city of Toamasina (Tamatave). It is basically a simple banana-pineapple cream. Both fruits can be found on Madagascar especially in the rainy season in abundance on the east coast, where they thrive particularly well due to the humid and warm climate. In Madagascar, both pineapple and bananas taste extremely intense. …

Madagascan pepper is famous throughout the world for its quality and special flavour. In this recipe for beef (in best case zebu) with pepper sauce, you exlusively use Madagascan pepper:  Prickled green pepper, dried black pepper and if you like it particularly tasty, you should add a little wild pepper (in Malagasy voatsyperyfery). The wild pepper is not hot, but …

Sakay is the Malagasy name for a Habanero-like small chilli cultivated only in Madagascar. Normally it is processed in the dried state. The dips prepared with it are extremely hot, which is why we have also included a milder variant made by  our team member Dimby from Madagascar in our recipes. In this recipe the still green Sakay is used. …

The Malagasy people love deep-fried food. No matter for which meal of the day, be sure you can get something deep-fried on the streets. An especially tasty variation, made by our chief cook Eric, are these chicken sticks in deep-fried spicy dough. Of course the Malagasy way you should prefer to add rice to this meal (here we used red …

Banana bread is actually a cake that is served often for breakfast in hotels and restaurants in Madagascar. It is a sweet and juicy cake which keeps fresh for days – if you have not eaten it before. In Madagascar, people plant a lot of bananas. The full grown plant serves as property line, the bananas serve as nutrition and …

Brochettes are skewers with very small pieces of zebu meat – this recipe adds sesame manioc. In the evening, you can buy Brochettes in Madagascar in all larger cities from small grills along the streets. A tasty diner for little money! As metal skewers, people often use bicycle spokes bent in shape. But you can also get Brochettes in almost …

Mofomamy is the Malagasy word for “sweet bread”, but means an upside-down pineapple cake in this case. In Madagascar, you can get pineappels everywhere, usually fresh from the field. They taste far sweeter in the tropics, but you can trick by using sweeter baby pineapples in Europe. For the rum, we recommend to use Dzama Cuvée noir -that is a …

Since the average supermarket in Europe rarely has banana leaves or manioc tubers, we have made a list with links where to buy all these ingredients. If you have an Asia store nearby, you will surely find most of the ingredients there. Banana leaves You can order single banana leaves here, here or here cooled. Other stores offer them even …

Koba akondro is a thick cake made of bananas, rice flour and peanuts. In Madagascar, you can buy it as snack in train and trucker stations, folded in banana leaves. The big brother of Koba akondro is Koba ravina, a cake made only of rice flour, sugar and peanuts. It looks very similar inside, but is usually cut in large …

This recipe for coconut chicken is also called Poulet coco in Madagascar. It may consist of simple ingredients, but we swear tastes great. Chicken is – just like beef, in Madagascar zebu – part of many Malagasy dishes. Ingredients for 2 persons: 250 g chicken breast 1 large onion 1 garlic clove 5 tomatoes A little piece of ginger 1 …