Plantains in Coconut Milk
Zanzibar, off Africa’s eastern coast, is called “the spice island”, famous for its cloves and vanilla. Zanzibar is the center of the Swahili civilization. The […]
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Niter Kibbeh
Take unsalted butter and melt it slowly, cook it so that the moisture in the butter evaporates — the milk solids will sink to the […]
Read morePalm-Oil Chop
“The Negroes cook uniformly very well, and at moments are inspired in the direction of palm-oil chop and fish cooking.” wrote Mary Henrietta Kingsley in 1896 (in Travels […]
Read moreSouth African Malay Curry
This recipe is a typical South African Malay Curry. The first Malay people in South Africa were brought as slaves from what is today Indonesia. As […]
Read moreJollof Rice
One often hears that Jollof Rice (or Jolof Rice, Djolof Rice) is a Nigerian dish; indeed it is often made by Nigerians. However, it has its origins among the […]
Read moreZanzibar Pilau
The word pilau comes from the Persian word pilav or pilaw, which is also the origin of pilaf, as in “rice pilaf”. The pilav rice cooking technique is found throughout the Middle East […]
Read morePiri-Piri Chicken
Piri-Piri Chicken, Peri-Peri Chicken, Frango Piri-Piri, and Galinha à Piri-Piri are all basically the same dish: chicken, marinated in a hot chile pepper marinade, then grilled. The dish’s African […]
Read moreTagine of Chicken, Preserved Lemon, and Olives
This Tagine — the word, also spelled Tajine, refers both to the cooking pot as well as a stew cooked in it — is one of dozens of […]
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