The following highlights some of the popular Traditional South Sudanese Foods. If you manage to be in an South Sudanese restaurant or you are visiting South Sudan, I recommend the following
1. Tomate Salad
It is a basic salad specializing in tomato, onion and chili. The best ones are served with peanut butter and salt dressing. It is a simple, quick and delicious dish especially for spicy lovers, but it can be perfectly adapted to the rest. In a very short time we have an excellent appetizer, dinner or side dish for two. A few slices of the good bread by your side and enjoy.
2. Tamia
Tamia is like falafel but made from a different type of legume, and is sold in bags everywhere. They are a fried snack made with chickpeas and, therefore, full of protein.
3. Salaat Sabadi
It is a salad made from yogurt and eggplant that is so tasty and fresh that it is popular all over the country. It is actually shaped like a dip due to its high yogurt and peanut butter content. This makes it easy to spread on flatbread (such as pita bread) or the typical Sultan Kissra bread.
4. Perch
Perch is a fish whose flavor goes perfectly with a number of sauces and garnishes, so both peppers and a tasty green sauce can be most suitable as an accompaniment. Typical of African cuisine, perch is cut into small squares and roasted in the oven with a garnish of tomato, onion, eggplant, stuffed olives and coconut.
5. Ful
This African dish has beans as its main ingredient. This delicious recipe can be enjoyed at any time of the day, either at breakfast, as a main dish, and especially as a starter or appetizer, accompanied by pita bread and boiled eggs.
6. Goat Stew
It is traditionally cooked with a kid goat (young goat). Nevertheless, since this meat can be quite difficult to find, nowadays it is usually replaced by chicken, lamb or veal. It can be served alone, with bread on the side, or with couscous grits.
7. Miris
The national dish of Sudan is probably miris, a simple meal based on tapioca, onions, okra and mutton fat used as spices and seasonings, usually cooked in the traditional way over an open fire. Sudan meals are based around a shared platter of meat, vegetables, salads, stews and sauces. Food is always eaten with the hands.
8. Combo
It is one of South Sudan’s most popular dishes: a thick, moist combination of spinach, peanut butter, tomatoes and (sometimes) meat. The combo is one of the rustic dishes with or without beef and even locals use goat.
9. Bassema
This cake has a northern influence and is similar (with slight variations) to cakes made in most of the Middle East. Egyptian Basbousa is a fairly similar cake, although it uses semolina and honey instead of the flour and syrup normally found in this South Sudanese sweet. Yogurt (which is one of its ingredients) softens it and the syrup poured after baking makes it delicious.
10. Kisra
It is one of the famous Sudanese breads, a thin pancake-like bread, similar to a crepe that is eaten with savory stews (mullah) or cheese (jibna), beans and falafel or tamiya.
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