Creamy sweet potato soup
The flavours in this heartwarming soup are a match made in the tropics. The cayenne pepper offers pleasing heat, the ginger adds a note of spice and the coconut milk lends mellow creaminess, but the sweet potato is the star of the show. It’s an important crop in Comoros; the island’s native potatoes are ‘Katuna’ (with red skin and yellow flesh) and ‘Zora’ (with yellow skin and white flesh). They are boiled, mashed, fried and ground into a flour to make cakes and even used to break fasting during the religious month of Ramadan.