Madagascar recipes
Recipes from Madagascar: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
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Romazava: Madagascar's Everyday Green Beef and Greens Stew
A recipe for Madagascar's national dish romazava, a ginger-and-tomato stew of several leafy greens and beef. Covers how to balance bitter, peppery and sweet greens, how to serve it over rice the Malagasy way, variations, storage and the ties between the island's rice culture and Southeast Asia.
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Koba: Malagasy Steamed Peanut and Rice Cake Wrapped in Banana Leaf
A home recipe for Madagascar's koba (koba ravina) made with rice flour, peanuts, brown sugar and banana leaf. Covers preparing the leaf, wrapping, the long steam, substitutes, storage and serving, plus the rice flour blend, adjusting sweetness, spotting under-steaming and why the cake is cooled before slicing.