When you will arrive in Reunion
Island you will find that it is a place multicultural where you can find Chinese,
Arabic, Indian or "Zorey" (French people coming from France
and who doesn't understand the Reunion Creole) and many more. That's
why you will find a lot of different kind of food.
Let's
do a menu that you can have:
Let's begin
with a drink. The "Rhum Arrangé" is a mix of fruit or what you want with spices and home made
rum who's around 49°. If you like beer, try the Dodo which is a beer from the island since 50 years,or a fruity punch, that you can have without rum also, or a simple fresh tropical juice (pineapple, litchi, mango, ...).All served with some appetizers, like samosas made with cheese, pork, tuna..., cod fritters, vegetable spring rolls, stuffed peppers.
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| Achard de Légumes |
As
a starter, a fresh pineapple salad, a palmiste salad
(the inside of a palm tree), « achard de légumes »which is a
mixed of white cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, green bean, ginger,
garlic, salt, pepper, curcuma and spice, that you cook with some vinegar and
oil, served chilled. We can use the left overs in a sandwich.
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| Chicken Carri with red beans, with rice and its tomatoes rougail |
For
main course, we have a « Cari » of meat, fish or
vegetables. The base is : tomato, garlic, onion, salt and
pepper, a bit of curcuma. Once you get all this
just add what you want, for example : sausages, beef, pork,
cod, crab, tuna,...
Served
with white rice and beans or « yellow rice » (I like to call it
this way) but its real name is « Zambrocal », made of
white rice, curcuma, garlic and onion, and a bit of what you want, we
do it with potatoes or different type of beans. Usually we serve it
with a « rougail » (sort of chutney) made of fruit like
the tomatoes or green mango with a bit of spices for the brave.
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| Pâté Créole with Pork |
At
least but not last, the dessert. You can try the « pâté créole » which is made
with curcuma and can be sweet (papaya, my favorite) or salty (pork
for example), a "Gâteau Ti Son" is a cake made of corn flour, a sweet potato cake, or why not just have a tropical
fruit salad, no the one in the tin, of course.
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| Sweet Potato cake |
Of course this is only a suggestion, there are so many dishes to discover but I
hope all this will have given you hungry.
