Mauritius Traditional cuisine

Mauritius The originality of the local cuisine makes the unthinkable confusion culinary traditions of Asian, African and European schools. The basis of Mauritian dishes of rice, but it certainly is complemented by various spices, burning and sour sauce, various fillings of seafood and vegetables. Sauces Sha Tin District, sabayon, cursed and vindaye used everywhere, as well as a variety of fruits.

The main dish of the country - all the same in the form of curry rice with chicken or other meat products, shrimp or oysters, vegetables and spices, bound, abundantly filled with vegetable oil and herbs. Very like him "biryani" - rice with meat, vegetables or fish, seasoned with spices. Very popular as a snack "puri" - unusual sandwiches (both cold and hot) of a special meal with different ingredients, ranging from salads and ending with meat or fish platter, but with some sauce. Everywhere offering Chinese noodles "min Frith, preparation methods which simply unthinkable number.

Fish and seafood take on tables Mauritians no less a place than rice. The surrounding waters abound with fish of all kinds, of which the most esteemed tuna, sea bream, sole, mullet (sultan), marlin and other fish is smoked, roasted on the fire and coals, eaten raw with lemon juice, stewed and cooked with all sorts of additives. A special delicacy are freshwater crayfish "Camarón", crabs, lobsters, octopus with vindaye or curry, snails, various clams, sea urchins, etc. They are trained hundreds of ways, but with plenty of spices and herbs.

The variety of vegetables just phenomenal! On the island grow sweet potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, green cucumber with a little sticky skin "Lalo", manioc, squash, pumpkins, squash, cabbage palm (local culinary pride) and others, often completely unknown to Europeans vegetables. And, of course, a huge abundance of fruit of all kinds.

Interesting and local products from the flour - the peculiar triangular cheesecakes "samussa (Samsa) puff pastry with vegetables, meat or fish, yam cakes, pies, potatoes and eggplants, donuts, with spice, little tarts with pasta seafood cakes with coconut crumbs, etc.

National drinks are coffee (quite unusual for European tastes, but in all bars and restaurants can cook and a standard black coffee), fruit juice, condensed milk, aludu with spices, the local lager ( "Stella", "Phoenix" Blue Merlin, etc.), white rum, Green Island, and herbal.

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