Discover the variety of food from Reunion Island.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.