Africa → 🇲🇬 Madagascar → Analamanga (Antananarivo)
Mofo Gasy
Malagasy · medium · serves 4
prep 15 min · cook 20 min
~376 cal · 5g protein · 72g carbs · 8g fat (estimated, per serving)
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Round golden rice-flour breakfast cakes
🇲🇬 Analamanga (Antananarivo)
Mofo gasy — literally "Malagasy bread" — is the morning street food of Madagascar, a lightly sweet, fermented rice-flour batter cooked in special round-welled pans into soft little cakes. Sold hot from charcoal stoves in Antananarivo, they are eaten on the go with coffee as the island wakes up.
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Ingredients
Serves 4 —
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2 cups rice flour
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1/3 cup sugar
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1 tsp yeast
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as needed warm water
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1/2 cup coconut milk
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as needed oil for the pan
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a pinch a pinch of salt
Instructions
1
Whisk the rice flour, sugar, yeast, salt, coconut milk, and warm water into a thick batter.
2
Let it ferment until bubbly, 1–2 hours.
3
Heat an oiled aebleskiver or muffin-well pan.
4
Fill the wells with batter and cook until set and golden underneath, then flip.
5
Serve warm with coffee.
Antananarivo tradition.
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Analamanga (Antananarivo). Highland home of romazava, the broth of the Merina kings.
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Madagascar. An island apart — African, Asian, and wholly its own.
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Africa. Fifty-four countries of tagines, stews, and fire-kissed grills.
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Richard Moore & Kelsey Tucker
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