Category Archives: National Dishes

Feijoada (Brazil) & Sopa Paraguaya (Paraguay)

A huge delay on getting this one written up. I had originally cooked this at the end of October but I did not feel like writing I guess. South America was the subject of that weeks cooking. I looked at Paraguay’s national dish which is a type of cornbread but I wanted something to go…

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Bobotie (South Africa)

Next up in the national dish project was the dish Bobotie from South Africa. Bobotie is similar to a meatloaf that you then pour an egg-based sauce over near the end of the cooking time. The ingredients are very different than a typical American meatloaf. Bobotie includes Raisins, hot chutney sauce(very hard to find), apricot…

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Moussaka (Greece)

As part of a way to broaden my culinary horizons, I am attempting to make one National Dish from each country The first national dish I made was Moussaka from Greece. Moussaka is a egg-plant based dish, that is layered with a meat(In my case ground beef) and topped with a bechamel sauce. This dish…

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