Gastronomy
The gastronomy of Brava Island includes several delicious dishes based on fish such as tuna, sawfish and moray eel, seafood, meats such as goat, pork and chicken, cereals such as corn and rice, leguminous plants such as beans, grains and vegetables such as sweet potato, squash and manioc.
Sugar cane also has its appreciated uses like honey and grog.
Don’t forget to taste the calabaceira juice, whose fruit, abundant on the island, has a greenish skin and a bitter-sweet flavor, and has unique nutritional properties, a true superfood.
The traditional gastronomic specialties of Brava Island include the creative use of corn in the preparation of dishes such as Xérem na Capa, Djagacida, Batanca, Fonguinho and other pastries.
As a dessert, the Brava Island papaya, when ripe, has a unique and unforgettable flavor. When it is green, it gives a papaya jam served with goat cheese that will make you regret leaving Brava.
To conclude the meal, a small grog, with or without lemon, always tastes good.
Typical dishes and other delicacies
- Xérem na capa
- Fonguinho
- Djagacida
- Catchupa
- Corn pastel
- Batanca
- Meat or fish totoco
- Roasted lamb
- Fresh fish like Tuna, Serra, Grouper
- limpets and whelks
- fried moray eel
- couscous
- papaya candy
