Gluten-Free Cape Verdean Recipes
Every dish here is Cape Verdean cooking that is naturally gluten-free, no swaps required, each tied to a real region and its culinary story. Prefer to wander wider? Toggle gluten-free on any recipe on the site and the ingredients rewrite themselves with regional swaps.
6 recipes
CachupaSantiago (Praia), Cape Verde · medium · 3 hThe slow-simmered national stew of hominy corn, beans, and meats, endlessly reboiled and always improving.
Cachupa Cuscuz DoceSantiago (Praia), Cape Verde · medium · 55 minA steamed cornmeal cake, faintly sweet, eaten warm with butter, honey, or milk for breakfast.
Pudim de Leite (Milk Flan)Santiago (Praia), Cape Verde · medium · 3 h 10 minA silky baked milk custard under a dark caramel, one of Cabo Verde's most popular desserts.
Canja de GalinhaSantiago (Praia), Cape Verde · easy · 1 h 15 minA thick, comforting Cape Verdean chicken and rice soup with carrot, potato and a bright squeeze of lime.
Jagacida (Cape Verdean Rice and Beans)Santiago (Praia), Cape Verde · easy · 45 minRice simmered with beans, onion, garlic and bay until glossy and tender, the everyday jag of the Cape Verde islands.
Xerém (Cape Verdean Coarse Cornmeal)Santiago (Praia), Cape Verde · easy · 40 minCoarsely ground dried corn simmered with onion, garlic, green pepper and bay leaf into a soft, savoury porridge, served beside fish, meat stews and fried moray.
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