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🇸🇨 Traditional dishes from Seychelles

3 dishes people actually cook in Seychelles: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from Seychelles? 3 traditional Seychelles dishes, from Ladob (45 min, the quickest) to Grilled fish (105 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Cari coco

1 hour · easy · 12 ingredients

Cari coco, a traditional dish from Seychelles

Chicken simmered in coconut milk with masala, turmeric and Seychelles cinnamon leaves, a Creole curry eaten with white rice and chutney.

  • 500 ml coconut milk
  • 1000 g chicken
  • 2 tbsp curry powder (masala)
  • 1 tsp turmeric
  • 5 cinnamon leaves
  • 8 curry leaves
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 1 tbsp ginger
  • 1 onion
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 0.5 tsp black pepper

Grilled fish

1 hour and 45 minutes · medium · 10 ingredients

Grilled fish, a traditional dish from Seychelles

A whole red snapper slashed to the bone and packed with a pounded paste of ginger, garlic and chili, the way fish is grilled across the Seychelles.

  • 1 whole red snapper
  • 30 g fresh ginger
  • 6 clove garlic
  • 2 bird's eye chilies
  • 3 limes
  • 1 tsp black peppercorns
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 300 g long-grain rice

Ladob

45 minutes · easy · 8 ingredients

Ladob, a traditional dish from Seychelles

A Seychellois daube where ripe plantain, sweet potato and cassava are simmered together in coconut milk with nutmeg and a vanilla pod.

  • 4 ripe plantains
  • 300 g sweet potato
  • 300 g cassava
  • 800 ml coconut milk
  • 120 g sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 1 nutmeg
  • 1 pinch salt

What do people eat in Seychelles?

Copper documents three dishes from Seychelles: Cari coco, Grilled fish and Ladob. Coconut milk and garlic each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 25 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Seychelles?

The three recipes need 25 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Seychelles entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Seychelles take?

Ladob is the quickest at 45 minutes. Grilled fish is the longest at 105 minutes. The median is 60 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Seychelles is easiest to make at home?

Cari coco and Ladob are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.

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