Does anyone know how to cook food from Madagascar I'm doing a report and I need help?

Question

A recipe from Madagascar would be much appreciateed

Answer 1

History, Cuisine And Language (scroll down: akoho sy voanio)http://www.air-mad.com/about_history.html
Recipes From Madagascar (fruit compote with lichee nuts, chicken with garlic and ginger) - ELCA http://www.elca.org/countrypackets/madagascar/recipes.html
Madagascar Chicken - World Recipes
http://www.world-recipes.info/africa-african/madagascar_chicken.html

Answer 2

Most uncooked food probably has more nutrients and vitamins in it, but I heard the other day that tomatoes only release more Lycopene (which is a powerful anti oxident) when they are cooked. Some vegetables and pulses can actually be poisonous if not cooked through properly, like red kidney beans...and yes as someone else mentioned it can also kill all the harmful bacteria and fugus Cooked food tastes better and is more comforting that cold raw hard food. We have evolved to learn this as Humans it can only be a good thing but i suppose its all down to individual taste at the end of the day, if you like that sort of thing

Answer 3

As I have a friend from Madagascar, he is of Portugese decent, the native food styles would be similar to the coastal countrys on the mainland like Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa, the diet would be hih is fish products, and most likely very little beef, as it is a small mostly jungle related country, so chickens and pork would be more of the meat content.

They are akin to spicy foods, and the styles of cooking brought from Portugal when it was it's colonial outpost, look to brasied dishes and alot of tomato, peanuts, and chili peppers. Fish would be grilled or cooked ina spicy tomato based sauce, he like the Portugese restaurants in Toronto, and even Brazilian places.

Answer 4

VARENGA
Roasted Shredded Beef
Yield: 8 portions
In a large saucepan:

Combine: 4 Ibs. BONELESS STEWING BEEF, cut in 1-inch pieces.

1 quart WATER
2 Tbs. SALT
2 cloves GARLIC, minced finely
1 cup ONION, sliced.
Cover and bring to a boil; simmer gently for 2 hours or until meat can be shredded with a fork.

Add water if necessary to keep meat at simmering point.

Shred the meat by cutting it into thin strips. Meat should come apart easily.

Transfer the shredded meat and sauce to a greased 9 x 12-inch baking pan (oven-proof).

Roast at 400' for 30 minutes until it is nicely browned across the top.

Garnish with 3 or 4 PARSLEY SPRIGS and bring to the table on a trivet.

Serve with white rice. Piles and piles of it. The Malagasy eat rice three times a day!

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Pork and Cassava Leaves (Henakisoa sy ravitoto)
Ingredients
- pork
- garlic
- tomatoes
- gingers
- oinions
- oil
- cassava leaves (mashed)
- salt
- coconut (optional)

Directions
- Cut the pork into thick pieces
- Put them in a pot with a little water
- After 5 mn, pour some water--more than the first one but not too much
- Chop one or two cloves of garlic, tomatoes, gingers and oinions
- Stir them with the pork during 5 mn
- If the oil from the pork is not enough, add a little quantity of oil--as you like
- Put the cassava leaves in the pot
- Stir, pour some water and add some pinches of salt
- Cover the pot and boil during 15 or 20 mn
- If you can find a coconut, take some portions of coconut, chop them using a knife or a potato masher and put them into the pot


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Beef and Sweet Greens (Henomby sy anamamy)
Ingredients
- beef
- garlic
- tomatoes
- oinions
- oil
- sweet greens
- salt

Directions
- Cut the beef into thick pieces
- Put them in a pot with a little water
- After 5 mn, pour some water--more than the first one but not too much
- Wash the sweet greens
- Remove the hardest parts of them
- Chop the tomatoes, gingers, oinions and one or two cloves of garlic
- Stir them with the beef during 5 mn
- Pour a little quantity of oil into the pot
- Put the greens into the pot
- Pour some water
- Cover the pot and boil during 5 mn
- Stir and add some pinches of salt
- Cover the pot and boil during 10 mn

Answer 5

hi
the UPenn site is great, but it doesnt have a recipe for banana fritters on it. they are really easy to make and are eaten all the time in madagascar
there are a whole bunch of recipes for banana fritters on this site
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q=Banana%20Fritters

you can use whichever one you think is easy =)

Answer 6

Go here:
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Cookbook/Madagascar.html#Recipes
Then go to the link for recipes...

Answer 7

Here are some sites to look at for you, I hope they help!!

http://www.recipes4us.co.uk/Cooking%20by%20Country/Madagascar.htm
http://www.world-recipes.info/africa-african/madagascar_chicken.html
http://www.knowledgehound.com/topics/southern_african_recipes.htm

Good luck!!