{"id":3149,"date":"2019-10-03T10:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:03:56","slug":"concours-culinaire-poisson-1019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/concours-culinaire-poisson-1019\/","title":{"rendered":"The women fishermen from the Maecha Bora association are showcasing octopus and dried fish at a cooking competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 29 in Vassy, \u200b\u200bthe association Maecha Bora organized a cooking contest featuring dried octopus and dried fish as the star ingredients. Supported by Dahari, the women fishers were thus able to showcase their products to the communities within the commune of Vouani.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Organized in collaboration with the NGO\u00a0Initiative and Development<\/a>\u00a0(ID), the event aimed to raise awareness among local residents about the benefits of consuming dried seafood (specifically octopus and bonito), to share recipes and culinary secrets, to offer an enjoyable, cultural, and flavorful experience for both children and adults\u2014and, above all, to highlight the women fishers and their initiative!<\/span><\/p>\n

Nine Maecha Bora women\u2019s groups from the three villages where Dahari operates\u2014Salamani, Dzindri, and Vassy\u2014competed in a culinary contest. The teams had to demonstrate creativity and inventiveness to win over the judges\u2019 taste buds and help them appreciate dried octopus and fish!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Served in sauce, marinated, or boiled\u2014and accompanied by rice, mataba (pounded cassava leaves), plantains, cassava, or coconut\u2014octopus and fish were prepared in every conceivable way, much to the delight of the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, it was \"Nkima\"\u2014a traditional, age-old recipe made with cassava flour and served with a sauce of dried octopus and coconut\u2014that the judges appreciated the most!<\/span><\/p>\n

For this winning group, the person in charge was able to speak about the choice of recipe:\u00a0\"I chose 'Nkima' as the dish to represent my group because my mother used to prepare it, having learned the recipe from my father. As the eldest child in the family, I would watch. My father would ask me to fetch the ingredients, prepare them, grate the coconut, extract the milk, and then set it over the fire\u2014stirring, stirring, stirring\u2026 until the coconut milk began to boil. That was when I would add the ingredients, such as onions, tomatoes, and spices. Once the sauce was ready, I would add the dried octopus\u2014which I had prepared beforehand (soaking it in water to remove excess salt and soften it, heating it over charcoal, rinsing it, and cutting it into small pieces)\u2014and I would stir, stir, stir\u2026 And when everything looked just right, I would call out to my father: 'Papa, come and taste this!' He would say, 'My daughter, even your mother never managed to make a sauce like this for me!' Since I was the one who served the meal, I would give my father a generous portion. And when I brought his plate to him, I would crawl on my knees, saying: 'Papa, I have brought this dish for you'...\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amid thunderous applause, each woman from the winning group received a \"bako djema\" (a fuel-efficient wood-burning stove), provided by the NGO Dahari.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the awards ceremony, the president of Maecha Bora added:\u00a0\"We thank Dahari for enabling us to carry out this activity today and for achieving results never seen before. We are drying octopus and fish to sell, and we are able to set aside savings that will go into the account of our association, Maecha Bora\u2014which, over time, will be able to become entirely self-sustaining... And all of this is thanks to Dahari.\"<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The women anglers truly surprised the public and the judges with this innovative event! They were able to demonstrate their great motivation and determination to develop and grow their association and their activities!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dried octopus and fish\u2026 Coming soon to dinner plates across Anjouan? Stay tuned\u2026!<\/span><\/p>\n

This project was set up in collaboration with the NGO\u00a0Blue Ventures<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le 29 ao\u00fbt \u00e0 Vassy, l\u2019association Maecha Bora organisait un concours de cuisine avec comme ingr\u00e9dients phares\u00a0: le poulpe et le poisson s\u00e9ch\u00e9s. Les femmes p\u00eacheuses, soutenues par Dahari, ont ainsi pu valoriser leurs produits aupr\u00e8s des communaut\u00e9s de la commune Vouani. Organis\u00e9 en collaboration avec l\u2019ONG\u00a0Initiative et D\u00e9veloppement\u00a0(ID), l\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nement avait pour objectifs de sensibiliser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programme-marin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12753,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/12753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daharicomores.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"There are no reviews for this movie on this website.","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}