Brochettes sy katelesy amin’ny mofo angivy Brochettes are skewers with very small pieces of zebu meat on them. You can buy brochettes in Madagascar in all major cities at small grills along the street in the evening. A portion of delicious street food for very little money! As skewers, not infrequently bent bicycle spokes are used. Brochettes are also available …
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Overturned pineapple cake
Mofomamy mananasy Mofomamy means as much as “sweet bread” or “sweet dough”, here it means a pineapple cake. Pineapples are available almost everywhere in Madagascar, mostly fresh from the field. They taste much sweeter in the tropics than in Europe, but you can trick it a bit and use the sweeter baby pineapples for the cake. The rum we recommend …
LesenPeanut sauce
Lasosy voanjo This delicious peanut sauce goes well with many Malagasy dishes. Classically, it is served in the southeast of Madagascar together with brochettes, zebu skewers, as street food, and in small restaurants on the roadside. However, you can of course also enjoy chicken skewers or samboza with it. Ingredients: 2 tomatoes 10 tablespoons of oil a small piece of …
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Min Sao Min Sao is a simple noodle dish, which originally comes from Asia. It is most similar to Vietnamese Mi Xao, which simply means as much as “fried noodles”. In Madagascar, you can find Min Sao, Mi-Sao, or Misao (the spelling varies) on almost every small restaurant’s menu. Usually, you can order it with different kinds of meat (beef, …
LesenBeef medallions with pepper sauce and sesame manioc
Hen’omby saosy dipoavatra sy mangahazo sésame Cassava (Malagasy mangahazo, meaning blue tree) is perceived in Madagascar more as “poor people’s food” and less as satiation like rice. The tuber tastes similar to potatoes and can be eaten as a side dish in the same way. Zebu meat, on the other hand, is common everywhere in Madagascar. In this recipe, both …
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Since the average supermarket in Europe rarely has banana leaves or manioc tubers, we have made a list of links to 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 or here cooled. Other stores offer them even …
LesenBaked banana with honey
Mofo akondro Baked banana is classic Malagasy street food, found mainly in the northwest and on the island’s east coast. There you can also find the most aromatic bananas. They taste especially delicious with Malagasy honey. On the red island, honey is usually collected from wild bees. There are only a few commercial beekeepers. On the roadside, you can often …
LesenZebu sandwich
Mofo amin’ny omby This recipe comes from one of Madagascar’s most famous hotels in the eastern highlands and is wonderful for picnics, a quick dinner, or even for breakfast. Ingredients for 2 large sandwiches: 500 g beef hip (zebu, if available) 1 medium-sized onion 2 tomatoes Iceberg lettuce 2 tablespoons of oil 1 tablespoon of water 1 tablespoon dark soy …
LesenKoba akondro
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 …
LesenThree pepper beef with coconut rice and cucumber salad
Hen’omby saosy telo dipoavatra sy vary voanio miaraka amin’ny lasary kokombra The Malagasy pepper is famous far beyond the country’s borders because of its quality and special flavor. In this delicious recipe for beef in sauce, we uset hree different types of Malagasy pepper: pickled green pepper, dried black pepper, and wild jungle pepper (in Malagasy, voatsyperyfery). It is accompanied …
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