#一国一品走近非洲 #
If you want to go to a place, whether it is travel or life, then the local cuisine has to taste, and The food culture of Africa is far from the mainland, let's see if you can accept or fall in love with these cuisines.
1. Mozambique - Thunderbolt Chicken
Thunderbolt Chicken with Fries
Yes, you read it right, this dish is called "piri piri chicken", which translates to Thunderbolt chicken, Mozambique is a country with a long coastline, of course, the local is also rich in seafood, but this Thunderbolt Chicken is a local classic dish, before the chicken on the grill, you must first use lime juice, garlic, coconut milk, spicy soy sauce, chili pepper marinade, roasted until the skin is slightly charred, compared to we have always had the habit of eating roast chicken, this dish is believed to be accepted by everyone.
2. Zambia – Ensima
Corn is grown on a much larger scale than other grain crops in Africa, so corn flour is a staple food in most parts of Africa, and corn flour is constantly boiled with water to make an extremely thick mud, but the name of each region is different, and in Zambia, called Ensima, is generally used to accompany other dishes. This is actually a bit like our Chinese stick noodle porridge, there are similarities.
3. Tanzania - Seafood BBQ
In the past, we all thought that Africa was very barren, especially for us, there should be less seafood with higher prices, but in fact, many countries in Africa have long coastlines, and seafood products are not expensive. In particular, Africans are not good at cooking shelled seafood is particularly cheap, such as lobster crab shellfish, large lobsters only need 20 or 30 yuan a catty, compared to the domestic price is really cabbage price. Come to Tanzania for a seafood platter, all kinds of fresh seafood, you can let go of your stomach willful eating, enjoy the feast.
In this way, African food is really fragrant and seems to be very suitable for our eating habits. Don't worry, let's take a look at some of The Unique African Cuisines.
1. Ghana - African Snail
Large snails for sale in the African market
Although snails are only famous in France, french snails are small in size and exquisite in practice, which is acceptable to many people. The African giant snail is huge, growing up to 20 centimeters or even 30 centimeters and weighing more than 500 grams. The real snail-eating enthusiast is the Ghana region of Africa, where 15 million kilograms of snails are consumed every year. And a variety of methods, frying, frying, roasting, steaming, boiling, etc. can be, in general, informal, more rugged, most of the time sprinkled with salt and paprika roasted can be eaten, although snails breed quickly, but still can not catch up with the speed of people eat snails, almost to eat this snail extinct, and finally snails are turned into artificial breeding to meet local needs, this is not a bit like the situation of crayfish in China.
2. Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Liberia and other countries - monkey meat
The real picture does not show
Monkey meat in Africa can be said to be the protein of the poor, and wild monkeys are relatively cheap compared to animals that need to be farmed, such as chickens and ducks. Walking the streets of these countries will find a lot of smoked monkey meat, which the locals like to buy and dip into ant sauce. In fact, wild monkeys carry a lot of viruses and are not suitable for human consumption.
3. Ghana - Mosquito Cake
African mosquito cake
In Ghana, in addition to the love of eating large snails, there is also a special food, mosquito cake made from thousands of mosquitoes. The simple method is to press a bunch of mosquitoes into a pie and fry it or fry it. For me who dares to eat silkworm pupae, I dare not take this bite.
Well, there are many cuisines in Africa, of course, there are more unique cuisines that will not be introduced, the above few are not want to eat it, there is a chance to travel to Africa can go to experience the delicious taste.