Angolan cuisine

Angolan cuisine has many dishes popular among nationals and foreigners, including '' funge'' (which is made from cassava or corn flour), '' mufete'' (grilled fish, plantain, sweet potato, cassava, and '' gari''), '' calulu'', ''moamba de galinha'', ''moamba de ginguba'', '' kissaca'', and '' mukua'' sorbet.

History

Angolan cuisine in its modern shape is a combination of indigenous African ingredients and cooking techniques, and Portuguese influences and ingredients brought over from other Portuguese colonies, such as Brazil.

Ingredients

Staple ingredients include beans and rice, pork and chicken, various sauces, and vegetables such as tomatoes and onions. Spices such as garlic are also frequently seen.Adebayo Oyebade, ''Culture and Customs of Angola'' (2007). Greenwood, p. 109. '' Funge'', a type of porridge made with cassava, is a staple dish.

There are many influences from Portuguese cuisine like the use of olive oil. Piripiri is a local hot sauce.

Dishes

'' Funge'' (or ''funje'', ) and '' pirão'' () are very common dishes, and in poorer households often consumed at every meal. The dish is often eaten with fish, pork, chicken, or beans. ''funge de bombo'' (), more common in northern Angola, is a paste or porridge of cassava (also called manioc or yuca), made from cassava flour. It is gelatinous in consistency and gray in color. ''Pirão'', yellow in color and similar to polenta, is made from cornflour and is more common in the south. ''Fuba'' () is the term for the flour that is used to make either ''funge'' and ''pirão'', also used to make '' angu'', the Brazilian polenta. Both foods are described as bland but filling and are often eaten with sauces and juices or with '' gindungo'' (see below), a spicy condiment.Mike Stead and Sean Rorison. ''Angola'' (2010). Bradt Travel Guides, pp. 81-83.

''Moamba de galinha'' (or ''chicken moamba'', ) is chicken with palm paste, okra, garlic and palm oil hash or red palm oil sauce, often served with rice and ''funge''. Both ''funge'' and ''moamba de galinha'' have been considered the national dish. A variant dish of ''moamba de galinha'', ''moamba de ginguba'', uses ''ginguba'' (, peanut sauce) instead of palm paste.

List of dishes

Other dishes common in Angolan cuisine include:

*''Arroz'' (rice) dishes, including ''arroz da Ilha'' (rice with chicken or fish), ''arroz de garoupa da Ilha'' (, (rice with grouper), and '' arroz de marisco'' (, white rice with seafood, typically prawns, squid, white fish, or lobster).
*'' Cabidela'' (), a dish cooked in blood, served with rice and ''funge''. Frequently chicken (''galinha de cabidela'', ''galinha à cabidela''), served with vinegar, tomatoes, onion and garlic. It was also incorporated to Brazilian cuisine.
*'' Caldeirada de cabrito'' (), goat meat stew served with rice, a traditional dish for Angolan independence day, November 11.
*Fish stews, including ''caldeirada de peixe'' (), made with "whatever is available" and served with rice, and ''muzongue'' (), made from whole dried and fresh fish cooked with palm oil, sweet potato, onion, tomato, spinach, and spices, and served with rice, spinach, ''funje'', and farofa; some Angolans believe that the stew is a hangover cure if eaten before the onset of the headache.
*''Calulu'' (), dried fish with vegetables, often onions, tomatoes, okra, sweet potatoes, garlic, palm oil, and ''gimboa'' leaves (similar to spinach); often served with rice, ''funge'', palm oil beans, and ''farofa''.
*'' Caruru'' (), a shrimp and okra stew, of Brazilian origin.
*'' Catatos'' (), caterpillar fried with garlic, served with rice; a specialty in Uíge
*''Chikuanga'' (), a bread made from manioc flour, served in a wrap of banana leaves; a specialty of northeast Angola.
*'' Cocada amarela'' ( or ), yellow coconut pudding made with sugar, grated coconut, egg yolks, and ground cinnamon, a dessert in both Mozambique and Angola. It is very different from what is known as ''cocada'' in Brazil.
*''Doce de ginguba'' (), peanut candy.
*''Farofa'' (), rice and beans with toasted manioc flour on top; a dish of Brazilian origin common in Angola.
*'' Feijão de óleo de palma'' () or ''dendem'', beans, onion, and garlic cooked in palm oil; often served with fish, banana and ''farofa''.
*'' Frango (grelhado) piri-piri'' (), native to Angola and Mozambique, also a former Portuguese colony; a grilled chicken in a very hot marinade of piri piri hot pepper and sometime also minced chili peppers, salt, and lemon or lime juice.
*''Gafanhotos de palmeira'' (), toasted grasshopper from a palm tree, a Cuanza Norte specialty; often served with ''funge''.
*''Gindungo'' (), a spicy condiment made of chili pepper, garlic, onion, and sometimes brandy; thought by some Angolans to be an aphrodisiac
*''Jinguinga'' (), goat tripe and blood, a specialty of Malanje, often served with rice and ''funge''.
*''Kifula'', game meat served with boiled and toasted palm tree grasshoppers, a specialty of Cuanza Norte, served with ''funge''.
* Kissuto rombo (), roasted goat with garlic and lemon juice, served with rice and chips.
*''Kitaba'' or ''quitaba'' (), a crunchy peanut paste seasoned with chilli pepper.
*''Kitetas'' (), clams, often cooked in a white wine sauce and served with bread.
*''Kizaka'' (), the leaves of the manioc plant, similar to spinach and often prepared with ''ginguba'' (peanut) and finely chopping and seasoned ''Kizaka com peixe'' is ''kizaka'' with fish, onion, and tomato, served with rice and ''funge''.
*''Leite azedo com pirão de milho'' (), a Huíla specialty, sour milk with maize porridge.
*''Mafuma'' (), frog meat, a Cunene specialty.
*''Mariscos cozidos com gindungo'' (), lobsters, prawns, and clams cooked in seawater, served with rice and hot sauce
*'' Mousse de maracujá'' (), a mousse of passionfruit native to Brazil but popular in Angola.
*'' Mufete de kacusso'' (or ''cacusso'', ()), grilled fish, often river tilapia, in a rich sauce of onion, vinegar, and spices, variously served with palm oil beans and cooked manioc, rice, sweet potato, or ''farofa''.
*''Mukua'' (), dried fruit of the baobab tree, often made into ice cream.
*'' Molho cru'' (), sauce or paste served with seafood and fish, made of garlic cloves, scallions (spring onions), parsley, cumin, salt, vinegar, and water.
*''Ngonguenha'' (), toasted manioc flour, sugar, and milk, a savory dish.
*Papaya with port wine.
*''Pavê de ginguba'' (), peanut sponge cake dessert.
*'' Pé-de-moleque'' (), peanut-and-caramel candy.
*'' Quiabos com camarão'' (), prawns with okra, garlic, onion, and tomato, served with rice.
*''Tarco'' (), radishes with peanuts, palm oil, tomatoes, and onions, served alongside meat or fish.

Beverages

A number of beverages, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, are typical to Angola.

Various homemade spirits are made, including ''capatica'' (made from bananas, a Cuanza Norte specialty), ''caporoto'' (made from maize, a Malanje specialty); ''cazi'' or ''caxipembe'' (made from potato and cassava skin); ''kimbombo'' (made from corn), ''maluva'' or ''ocisangua'' (made with palm tree juice, sometimes described as "palm wine," a Northern Angola specialty), ''ngonguenha'' (made from toasted manioc flour), and ''ualende'' (made from sugarcane, sweet potato, corn, or fruits, a Bie specialty). Other beverages are ''Kapuka'' (homemade vodka), ''ovingundu'' (mead made from honey), and ''Whiskey Kota'' (homemade whisky).

Popular non-alcoholic drinks including '' Kissangua'', a Southern Angola specialty, a traditional non-alcoholic drink made of cornflour, have been used in indigenous healing rituals.Uwe Peter Gielen, Jefferson M. Fish, and Juris G. Draguns. ''Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing'' (2004). Psychology Press, p. 338. Soft drinks such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mirinda, Sprite, and Fanta are also popular. While some soft-drinks are imported from South Africa, Namibia, Brazil, and Portugal, the Angolan soft-drink industry has grown, with Coca-Cola plants in Bom Jesus, Bengo, and Lubango opening since 2000.

Mongozo is a traditional homemade beer made from palm nuts, a specialty of the Lundas ( Lunda Norte and Lunda Sul). Mongozo was brewed by the Chokwe people before the arrival of Europeans, and mongozo is now commercially produced for export, including to Belgium, where it is produced by Van Steenberge.

Various commercial beers are brewed in Angola, the oldest of which is Cuca, brewed in Luanda. Others include Eka (brewed in Dondo in Cuanza Norte), N'gola (brewed in Lubango), and Nocal (brewed in Luanda).

See also

*African cuisine
*West African cuisine

References

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