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Capirotada

Capirotada is a classic Mexican bread pudding layered with toasted bolillo, piloncillo-spice syrup, nuts, dried fruit, coconut, fresh fruit, and queso fresco—rich, aromatic, and comfortingly sweet.

🇲🇽 Mexico$$

Domoda

Domoda is a rich, savory Gambian peanut stew featuring tender beef simmered with peanut butter, tomatoes, aromatics, and hearty root vegetables. It’s deeply comforting, lightly spicy, and perfect over rice or on its own.

🇬🇲 Gambia$$

Tiguadege Na

Tiguadege Na (Malian peanut stew) is a rich, savory West African stew of meat simmered with tomatoes, aromatics, and vegetables in a silky peanut-butter sauce. Traditionally served with rice or tô (a millet/sorghum porridge), it’s comforting, hearty, and warmly spiced with chili and bay leaf.

🇲🇱 Mali$$

Corvina al Miso de Manabí

A coastal Ecuador-meets-Japan fusion: tender corvina seared in achiote oil and glazed with a bright, savory miso sauce enriched with peanut butter, coconut milk, citrus, and panela. Served with simple rice, yuca, and plantain for a Manabí-style finish.

🇪🇨 Ecuador$$

Humintas

Humintas are Bolivian fresh-corn tamales lightly sweetened and scented with anise and cinnamon, folded in corn husks or banana leaves and steamed or baked until tender. Speckled with fresh cheese and sometimes raisins, they’re a cozy, street-food classic with a sweet-savory profile.

🇧🇴 Bolivia$$

Garlic-Dill Draniki

Crispy Belarusian potato pancakes infused with garlic and fresh dill, pan-fried until golden and served with cool sour cream.

🇧🇾 Belarus$

Dumboy

Dumboy is a traditional Liberian cassava dumpling, pounded until smooth and elastic, then served warm with a drizzle of rich red palm oil. Simple, hearty, and naturally gluten-free.

🇱🇷 Liberia$

Ngalakh

Ngalakh is a Senegalese celebratory chilled dessert of steamed millet couscous folded into a silky peanut–baobab cream, perfumed with vanilla and orange blossom, and dotted with raisins, coconut, and banana. Rich, tangy-sweet, and nutty, it’s traditionally shared during festivals.

🇸🇳 Senegal$$

Degue

Degue (thiakry) is a creamy West African millet couscous dessert, folded into tangy yogurt and milk, sweetened with condensed milk and sugar, and perfumed with vanilla, warm spices, raisins, coconut, and a splash of orange blossom water.

🇲🇱 Mali$$

Amiwo et Poulet en Sauce

A traditional Beninese dish: savory tomato-infused maize dough (amiwo) served with tender chicken simmered in a rich tomato–palm oil sauce.

🇧🇯 Benin$$

I've been...

Capirotada

Domoda

Tiguadege Na

Corvina al Miso de Manabí

Humintas

Garlic-Dill Draniki

Dumboy

Ngalakh

Degue

Amiwo et Poulet en Sauce

I've been...

Capirotada

Domoda

Tiguadege Na

Corvina al Miso de Manabí

Humintas

Garlic-Dill Draniki

Dumboy

Ngalakh

Degue

Amiwo et Poulet en Sauce