Simple island cooking of maize, rice, root vegetables and fish with a hot chilli sauce (pilis). Timor is best known as a coffee-growing country.
Specialties
- Ikan Sabuko
- Timor Coffee
History
Portuguese colonists (to 1975) brought coffee, bread and spices. Local foods like maize and cassava stayed central.
Ingredients
- Maize
- Rice
- Cassava
- Fish
- Coconut
- Chilli
- Tamarind
How it's made
- Grill or stew fish with tamarind and chilli
- Boil maize or cassava as the starch
- Serve with a sauce of chilli and lime
- End with coffee
Photos: ingredients, making & serving
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What Timor-Leste drinks
Timor coffee, tuaka (palm wine)
Ratings & notes
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