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cachupa

{{Short description|Cape Verdean dish}}

{{Infobox prepared food

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| image = Cachupa 2.jpg

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| country = Cape Verde

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| type = Stew

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| main_ingredient = Fish or meat (sausage, beef, goat, or chicken), hominy, beans

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| calories = c. 100-200

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Cachupa ({{IPA|pt|kɐˈʃupɐ}}, {{langx|kea|Katxupa}} {{IPA|kea|kɐˈtʃupɐ|}}) is a famous dish from the Cape Verde islands, West Africa. It is a slow-cooked stew of corn (hominy), beans, cassava, sweet potato, fish or meat (sausage, pork, beef, goat or chicken), and often morcela (blood sausage). Referred to as the country's national dish,{{cite book|last=King|first=Russell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPiaOiPH5OYC|title=The Mediterranean Passage: Migration and New Cultural Encounters in Southern Europe.|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=2001|page=104|isbn=0-85323-646-1}}{{cite web |url = http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/caboverde/cachupa.html |title = Cachupa di Cabo Verde |author = Raymond Almeida |publisher = UMassD |access-date = 2006-12-10 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061205234921/http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/caboverde/cachupa.html |archive-date = 2006-12-05 |url-status = dead }} each island has its own regional variation. The version of the recipe called cachupa rica tends to have more ingredients than the simpler cachupa pobre.

Cachupa guisada

File:Cachupa guisada com peixe.jpg

Katchupa leftovers are often re-fried, the resulting dish being called Katchupa frita, cachupa guisada or cachupa refogada, meaning "fried Katchupa".{{cite web|url=http://receitas_cv.blogs.sapo.cv/1593.html|title=Recipes for Katchupa|publisher=SAPO CV|language=pt|access-date=2017-01-15|archive-date=2017-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230050043/http://receitas_cv.blogs.sapo.cv/1593.html|url-status=dead}}[http://www.casadamorna.com.pt/swf/mainSI.swf] This dish may be served for breakfast with a fried egg and a fried local sausage (linguiça) or fried mackerel.{{cite web |url = http://pt.livinginlisbon.com/rubricas/item.php?id=509 |title = Mae Preta |website = Pt.livinginlisbon.com |language = pt |access-date = 2010-03-31 |archive-date = 2011-08-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110825072611/http://pt.livinginlisbon.com/rubricas/item.php?id=509 |url-status = dead }}{{cite web |url = http://tv1.rtp.pt/EPG/tv/epg-janela.php?p_id=21054 |title = Sabor Crioulo|website=Tv1.etp.pt |language=pt}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.santiagocv.com/spip.php?article3 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924095512/http://www.santiagocv.com/spip.php?article3 |archive-date=2017-09-24 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.portugalcaboverde.com/news_detail.php?id=309|title=Câmara de Comércio, Indústria e Turismo Portugal Cabo Verde|website=Portugalcaboverde.com}}

Other

There is also a Cachupa Rica style that is served at Quintal da Música, music restaurant and club in the Plateau and the Center of Praia.{{cite web|url=https://sabores.sapo.pt/receita/cachupa-rica-moda-quintal-da-musica|title=Recipe for Cachupa Rica, 5tal da Música style|publisher=SAPO|language=pt|access-date=2018-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024141730/http://sabores.sapo.pt/receita/cachupa-rica-moda-quintal-da-musica|archive-date=2014-10-24|url-status=dead}}

In São Tomé and Príncipe

It is also one of the most popular dishes of São Tomé and Príncipe. The dish has likely been brought from Cape Verde. It is prepared with green beans, broad beans and corn.

Legacy

Carmen Souza's fifth studio album, titled as Kachupada, is about this traditional food. It was released in 2013.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Mark Zanger, (2001), The American ethnic cookbook for students, ABC-CLIO
  • Pierre Sorgial, "La table cap-verdienne" ("Capeverdean table")', Guide des îles du Cap-Vert, Karthala, Paris, 1995, p. 49-50 {{ISBN|2-86537-596-X}} {{in lang|fr}}
  • Jeanne, Jacob, Ashkenazi, Michael: The World Cookbook: The Greatest Recipes from Around the Globe. ABC-CLIO, 2014, p. 234. {{ISBN|1610694694}}

External links

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20170418201853/http://undinerpresqueparfait.m6.fr/videos/11313292-preparation_de_la_cachupa_cap_verdienne.html Video of a making of a Capeverdean Cachupa] at the French cooking program Un diner presque parfait of the M6 network {{in lang|fr}}

{{African cuisine}}

Category:Cape Verdean cuisine

Category:Cuisine of São Tomé and Príncipe

Category:Stews

Category:National dishes