Inhambane Sweet · Coconut Candy
Cocada (Coconut Candy)
📷 Closely related photo — Photo: Avelludo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cocada is made across the Portuguese-speaking world, from Brazil to Angola, and versions cooked with condensed milk, like this one, come out soft and fudgy rather than hard and brittle.
Grated coconut is cooked down with sugar and condensed milk into a dense, sweet paste, then set and cut into small pieces or spooned into cups. It's sold by market vendors and home bakers around Inhambane, one of Mozambique's most coconut-rich provinces.
Why it's made this way: Inhambane's coastline is lined with coconut palms, and turning the surplus into a simple sugar-and-coconut sweet is a Portuguese-influenced tradition that took root wherever Lusophone Africa met an abundant coconut supply.
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