# The best Cape Verdean dishes

Cachupa, pastel com diabo dentro, xerém and grogue: the typical food and drinks of Cape Verde.

- 43 votes · 18 items
- May 27, 2025 · o_saudavel
- https://even.best/en/l/2846/the-best-cape-verdean-dishes

## Top 18

1. **Pastel com diabo dentro** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Spicy tuna pastry.
2. **Fogo wine** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Volcanic wine from Fogo island.
3. **Cachupa** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The national stew of hominy, beans and meat or fish.
4. **Fish broth** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Fish soup.
5. **Jagacida** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Rice and beans.
6. **Goose barnacles** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Goose barnacles.
7. **Goat cheese with papaya jam** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Fresh goat cheese with papaya jam.
8. **Bafa** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Slow-cooked garlic pork or octopus.
9. **Xerém** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Pounded corn with pork.
10. **Cuscus** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sweet cornmeal breakfast cake.
11. **Ponche** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Grogue with cane molasses.
12. **Búzio** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Slow-cooked sea snails.
13. **Fried moray** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fried moray eel.
14. **Coconut sweet** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Coconut candy.
15. **Grogue** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Sugarcane spirit.
16. **Limpets** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grilled limpets with garlic.
17. **Baobab juice** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Baobab juice.
18. **Milk pudding** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Milk pudding with caramel.

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