Cachupa


Cachupa is a famous dish from the Cape Verde islands, West Africa. It is a slow cooked stew of corn, beans, cassava, sweet potato, fish or meat, and often morcela. Referred to as the country's national dish, each island has its own regional variation. The version of the recipe called cachupa rica tends to have more ingredients than the simpler cachupa pobre.

Cachupa guisada

Cachupa leftovers are often re-fried, the resulting dish being called cachupa frita, cachupa guisada or cachupa refogada, meaning "fried cachupa". This dish may be served for breakfast with a fried egg and a fried local sausage or fried mackerel.

Other

There is also a Cachupa Rica style that is served at Quintal da Música, music restaurant and club in the Plateau and the Center of Praia.

In São Tomé and Príncipe

It is also one of the most popular dishes of São Tomé and Príncipe. The dish has likely been brought from Cape Verde. It is prepared with green beans, broad beans and corn.

Legacy

's fifth and most recent studio album, titled as Kachupada is about this traditional food, it was released in 2013.