Snack · Fried Pastry
Chamuças (Mozambican Samosas)
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This 'Indian' snack became Mozambican because Goa and Mozambique were both Portuguese colonies at the same time.
Triangular pastries stuffed with spiced meat, fish, or vegetables and deep-fried until crisp, chamuças are sold hot off the pan by street vendors in Maputo and Inhambane. Eaten by hand, often with piri-piri sauce on the side.
Why it's made this way: Mozambique has one of Africa's largest Indian-descended populations, a legacy of Portugal ruling Goa and Mozambique simultaneously, and the samosa traveled the trade routes between them.
Roughly what's in it
260kcal
8gprotein
26gcarbs
14gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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