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Mufete

Name: Mufete
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Angola
Ingredients: 2 (cleaned) Sea Bream; 200g (cooked) White beans; 3 tbsp Palm oil; 1 Sweet potato; 2 Green banana; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Vinegar; 2 tbsp Olive oil; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 Lemon; 2 tsp Salt

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Grilled fish with palm-oil beans, boiled sweet potato, and cooking banana — Luanda's weekend dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mufete is a weekend feast of coastal Luanda: charcoal-grilled fish is served on one plate with beans cooked in palm oil, boiled sweet potato, cassava, and cooking banana, and topped with an onion and vinegar sauce. Eating it slowly with family and friends at seaside spots on Luanda Island is the classic way.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a seaside eatery on Luanda Island, charcoal-grilled fish, sweet potato, banana, and beans are piled on a platter and doused with onion sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Sea Bream 2 (cleaned)
White beans 200g (cooked)
Palm oil 3 tbsp
Sweet potato 1
Green banana 2
Onion 1
Vinegar 2 tbsp
Olive oil 2 tbsp
Garlic 2 cloves
Lemon 1
Salt 2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Score the fish, rub with salt, grated garlic, and lemon juice, and let stand 30 minutes.
Grill both sides over charcoal or under a grill.
Warm the beans with palm oil and salt.
Boil the sweet potatoes and bananas in their skins and cut.
Toss the sliced onion with vinegar, olive oil, and salt to make a sauce, arrange everything together, and pour it over.

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