Tete Trade Good · Sun-Dried Fish
Peixe Seco (Sun-Dried Fish)
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Tete's provincial government lists peixe seco among its official regional gastronomy specialties — here, dried fish isn't just preserved leftovers, it's a recognized culinary trade good.
Small river fish are salted and laid out to dry in the sun until they shrink and harden, a preservation method that lets them keep for months without refrigeration. Traders sell bundles of it in Tete's markets, to be soaked and simmered later into stews.
Why it's made this way: Landlocked from the ocean but flanked by the Zambezi, Tete built its own fish-preservation trade to move river catch inland along routes stretching across the borders into Malawi and Zambia.
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