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Bolo Polana

Name: Bolo Polana
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Mozambique
Ingredients: 200g Cashews; 2 Potato; 120g Butter; 200g Sugar; 5 Egg; 30g All-purpose flour; from 1 Lemon zest; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A moist, rich Mozambican cake made with cashews and potato.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bolo polana is a traditional Mozambican cake named after a Maputo neighborhood, made with the country's famous cashews and boiled, mashed potato. Using almost no flour, it bakes up moist and rich. Mozambique was once one of the world's top cashew producers, and the cake is made for celebrations and Christmas.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At Christmas in a Maputo home, a nutty golden cake sits in the middle of the table as the family cuts it to enjoy with coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Cashews 200g
Potato 2
Butter 120g
Sugar 200g
Egg 5
All-purpose flour 30g
Lemon zest from 1
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the potatoes, mash smooth, and cool.
Grind the cashews finely in a food processor.
Cream the room-temperature butter and sugar, then beat in the eggs one at a time.
Add the cashews, potato, flour, and lemon zest and mix.
Pour into a pan, bake at 170°C for 50 minutes, and dust with powdered sugar once cool.

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