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Gâteau Piment

Name: Gâteau Piment
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 15
Cuisine: Mauritius
Ingredients: 200g Yellow split peas; 2 Green Chili Pepper; 3 Green Onion; A pinch Cilantro; 1/2 tsp Cumin powder; 1/2 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 15

Difficulty ⭐

Yellow split peas mixed with chili and herbs and fried — Mauritius's little bean fritters.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Gâteau piment, 'chili cake,' is a Mauritian snack: soaked split peas are ground, mixed with green chili, scallions, and cilantro, rolled small, and fried. Crisp outside and fluffy inside, they're stuffed into baguettes for breakfast or eaten with tea as a snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Mauritian street corner, freshly fried little round fritters go from a stall's big pot into paper bags as children buy them on the way to school.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 15)

Yellow split peas 200g
Green Chili Pepper 2
Green Onion 3
Cilantro A pinch
Cumin powder 1/2 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the split peas overnight and drain.
Grind coarsely in a food processor.
Mix in the chopped green chili, scallions, cilantro, cumin, and salt.
Roll into 3cm balls and make a slight dent in the center.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.

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