Mauritian recipes Archive

  • Chinese Tea Eggs (Chinese New Year recipe)

    Chinese Tea Eggs (Chinese New Year recipe)

    Tea Eggs or Soy eggs(“dizef roti”) are very popular in Mauritius. Tea eggs come from China, where they can be eaten as snacks, or as accompaniment to other dishes like...

  • Mauritian-Chinese Fried Noodles (Chinese New Year Recipe)

    Mauritian-Chinese Fried Noodles (Chinese New Year Recipe)

    This dish is often served as a Chinese New Year recipe. Chinese fried noodles are commonly known as chow mein, chow mein noodles, chaomian (炒面)or nouilles chinoises, mines frit in...

  • Taro/Colocasia/Kochu with fish

    Taro/Colocasia/Kochu with fish

    This is one very quick and easy recipe. My mom gave me this recipe, and it turns out that it is also a very popular Bengali recipe! There are 2...

  • Tofu Keema with peas

    Tofu Keema with peas

    Keema, Kheema or Qeema is a traditional dish from Pakistan and Indian, it is usually made with minced meat, but I will be using Tofu for this keema recipe. It...

  • Creamy Mashed Potatoes

    Creamy Mashed Potatoes

    My mom has this daily routine which she never misses: “What do you want to eat today?”. If one of us says steak or roasted chicken, I go “Mashed potatoes!”. I...

  • Easy Lemon Yogurt Chicken

    Easy Lemon Yogurt Chicken

    This Mauritian-Indian recipe is utterly simple. I was trying to find a name for it and decided that since the 2 main ingredients are yogurt and lemon, I would call...

  • Easy Chicken curry with yogurt (Chicken Kalia)

    Easy Chicken curry with yogurt (Chicken Kalia)

    Chicken kalia is a typical Mauritian dish. I’ve been trying to know its origin but it turns out that Chicken Kalya is one of those authentic Mauritian recipes! It is...

  • Chinese smiling cupcakes (Gateau poutou/poutou)

    Chinese smiling cupcakes (Gateau poutou/poutou)

    In Chinese culture, cakes or 糕 “gao” are usually steamed, rather than baked, making the cakes  quite moist. This is a traditional chinese recipe, although we changed it a little...

  • Fried eggplant pakora/Gato brinzel

    Fried eggplant pakora/Gato brinzel

    Among the various indian snacks recipes that I adore is definitely fried eggplant pakora. Actually, I had absolutely no idea about how to call it in English as in Mauritius,...

  • Polenta pudding

    Polenta pudding

    One Mauritian recipe I absolutely love is Maize pudding,also known as Polenta pudding or corn pudding(simply known as “Poudine mais” in Mauritius). Something that always got me confused is how...