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Timorese Cuisine

↳ from Dili, Timor-Leste

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.

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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

  1. Grill or stew fish with tamarind and chilli
  2. Boil maize or cassava as the starch
  3. Serve with a sauce of chilli and lime
  4. End with coffee
to drink

What Timor-Leste drinks

Timor coffee, tuaka (palm wine)

Ratings & notes

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