Best dish you've eaten from an 'unusual' country?

[Pyroleus]

Unusual is not the right word! But I mean that we're all familiar with lots of dishes from Italy, India, Mexico, and so on. But what about Bangladesh? Tuvalu? Trinidad and Tobago?

Hit me with the tastiest dish that the average British person won't have heard of! Extra points for a link to a reliable recipe. Preferably without a vital ingredient which is only grown in southern Patagonia and definitely not available in Tesco.

I love this west African peanut stew realfood.tesco.com/recipes/west-african-style-chicken-peanut-stew.html

When I was in Tunisia years ago, I had a really tasty dish with an egg in it.

I can't remember what it was called, what else was in it, but it was really good. Best contribution I can make to this thread, I'm afraid 😆

Moroccan Bisteeya with chicken, eggs, cinnamon and other spices all wrapped in a pastry then served with powdery sugar

Ethiopia - really delicious stews. Spicy with lots of layers of flavour without being too hot (for me).

Thai curries are well known but less well known is their fried chicken, have it with sticky rice and somtam - delicious!!!!

https://cheflolaskitchen.com/doro-wat-ethiopian-chicken-stew/

Chicken Doro Wat, you won’t regret it.

Ethiopian food is great. Also fulfils your requirement as it's served on injera, a sort of pancake made from teff flour which isn't that available and you have to ferment it in a multi day process.

Thought I might have a go at home, looked at some recipes and decided maybe it was something you had to grow up with.

Great ideas so far, thank you!

Doro Wat Chicken looks epic, but unfortunately I definitely won't be able to get hold of some of the ingredients. No berbere spice or Ethiopian butter around here!
Checking out the peanut stew, definitely going to try that one!

Oops misread your OP! If you happen to live in Brent then you can buy interactive from Ethiopian shops.

Balkan ground beef hash. Extra points because it is keto. It was sooo good.

https://familyonketo.com/ground-beef-hash-balkan-style/

Amazon sell berbere spice mixes quite cheaply

You can make Berber’s spice mix yourself, don’t be deterred!

see the quick fix approach here:-

mykitchenlittle.com/2023/11/26/ethiopian-doro-wat-recipe/

I just used normal butter.

The Peanut Stew looks great.

My lovely Ukrainian guest used to make things from all over Eastern Europe which really brought home how diverse the cultures were. Plov from Uzbekistan was the main one but also lovely aromatic spicy chicken dishes from Georgia and fresh Mediterranean style things from Moldova.

Last night we had Hungarian mushroom soup for the first time. OMG it was the most delicious soup I've ever had. Will definitely be making many an appearance on my weekly menu plan from now on.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/17897/hungarian-mushroom-soup/

When I was in Bhutan I just lived on their chilli and cheese stew- ema datahi
hsaba.com/recipes/bhutanese-chilli-cheese-curry

Tremoços are a very morish portuguese beer snack of a legume (lupin beans in English) in a salted brine. They are mostly fed to livestock in other countries I hear! I tried to make them at home once, bought the dried beans and then read it the recipe. It started with 'soak the beans in water for 14 days....' 😅😅. I had a laugh once when a very sophisticated friend of mine came to visit Portugal from London. She liked them so much she bought some to take them home as a starter at a fancy dinner party she was holding. This would be the equivalent of serving something like pork scratchings as a fancy starter in the UK.

I've found the Tunisian egg recipe!

www.food.com/recipe/tunisian-chakchouka-195474

That is interesting, as we have lots of Portuguese shops here and I've never known what those bottles of beans were for! I'll have to give them a try

There's a trick to eating them - the skin isn't edible so you bite a small slit in it then squeeze the bean to squirt it into your mouth leaving the skin between your fingers. It's fun!

Trinidad and Tobago is easy: doubles but I don't like them spicy.

Pakistan: carrot rice pudding

Slovenia: bear salami (not sure you can just make that obviously)

This thread is amazing! Thank you all so much.

I currently have morning sickness so every day I have to walk round the shop or scroll recipes until the inner monster says "yes, that's what you're eating tonight." I was totally stumped today, but when I saw that picture of @MrTiddlesTheCat 's mushroom soup the inner monster did a wee dance! So that's tonight's dinner.
I am making a list of all the other recipes and will try them in a few weeks!

No specific dish but I do recommend Ethiopian food, we are lucky to have 2 excellent restaurants near us. One of them is vegan as well and the food is absolutely delicious and I have tried to recreate some dishes and it wasn't hard.
I wouldn't give injera a go though, takes ages

Mas Huni - Maldivian breakfast meal

1 x grated fresh coconut
2 x tins flaked tuna
1 x chopped onion
2 x chopped fresh chilli (red and green), salt and pepper to taste, lemon or lime juice with wedges to serve.
Serve with warm chapatis.

Top Tip - you can crack a coconut by making a hole in the soft eye, draining coconut water and then putting the coconut on a baking tray in the oven at around 195 deg c for 20 min or until crack forms.

Glad to see Ethiopian food mentioned here already. I’ve traveled widely and the food there was some of the most memorable I’ve had. The other country with stand out good food was Peru.

Georgian cheese bread, it's amazing.

We eat a lot of Lebanese dishes in our house, lovely gentle stew-y things which are very soothing to cook and eat. Musa'a would be a good starting point.

I also like Korean bibimbap but not sure how compatible that is with morning sickness!