MAURITIAN CUISINE
Cuisine of Mauritius
Fish Soup
Fish Soup is a warm food made by combining fish or seafood with vegetables stock, juice, water, or another liquid. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.
Crab Soup
Crab Soup is a hot, peppery and sour food made of crab, pepper, mustard and cumin seeds, chilies,tomatoes and spices together with water and tamarind sauce. It is serves very hot in a bowl usually consumed in winter.
Fish Balls Soup
Fish Balls are eaten mostly with broth. The broth can be prepared from fish or chicken at the base of a chicken carcass or fish heads, water, some seasoning and chives. Then the fish balls are served with the hot broth seasoning with pepper and garlic sauce.
Halim
Halim is a traditional dish made of meat, soak wheat, barley and gram lentil overnight. The cooked wheat, barley and lentils are then mixed with the meat (beef or mutton) together with the blended spicy gravy. Halim is served with chopped mint leaves, lemon juice, coriander leaves, fried onions and green chilies.