Sweet potatoes are an important crop on the islands of Comoros and Mayotte. There are native varieties that are essential to the cuisine, Ktuna with red skin and yellow flesh and Zora with yellow skin and white flesh. These are cooked in a number of ways, including boiling, mashing, frying, and grinding into flour, all of which are then used to make unique dishes. I love sweet potatoes, and will get them every instance I can. There is the sweetness, especially when they are b

Sometimes a soup brings out the vegetable's freshness and flavour. This is the soup that pushes boring zucchini to a masterful vegetable. For this recipe, use only young zucchini, not older ones, and red, ripe tomatoes with a beautiful flavour. This is a simple soup, and ingredients matter so much. The soup can be left chunky, but I find that folks are put off by the soft vegetables and end up focusing on the flavours rather than the beautiful soup. So I puree the soup to a t

Some recipes come from the dessert, and this is one of them. The recipe is about a few ingredients and is cooked slowly to extract flavour and nourishment. Lentils form the core of this soup, slow-cooked until they retain a lovely bite, and spinach is added for colour and nourishment. The magic in the soup is the topping of coriander and garlic (taklia), which adds a pop and wonderful flavour. The soup is filling, and the slow cooking allows the community ot travellers to com