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Mabuyu

Dessert
⏱ 30 min
👥 Serves 6
Difficulty ⭐

Sugar-coated tamarind seeds — a sweet-sour candy of the Comoros and the Indian Ocean coast.

#Comoros#Tamarind#Candy#TraditionalSweets#IndianOceanCuisine
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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mabuyu is a traditional candy made by coating tamarind seeds, with their pulp still clinging, in sugar and food coloring and drying them. It's popular throughout the Swahili-speaking Indian Ocean coast, including the Comoros. The contrast of sour pulp and sweet coating is unique, and it's a classic market treat for children.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Moroni market, children clutching coins crowd around a stall of brightly colored mabuyu.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Crack open the tamarind pods and remove the pulp-covered seeds.

  2. Dissolve sugar in water and boil into a syrup.

  3. Toss the tamarind in the syrup.

  4. Spread on a tray and dry in the sun or a low oven.

  5. They're done when coated in a sugary shell.

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