DESTINATIONS SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL |MAURITIUS
LOCAL FLAVOURS: STREET FOOD
E Boulette
Little round, steam-cooked dumplings made with either chicken or fish, served in a soup with green onions.
E Roti chaud
Indian flatbread stuffed with butterbean curry, pickles and rougaille sauce, which is made with tomatoes.
E Magic bowl
Also known as bol renversé (upside-down bowl), this dish layers egg, rice and oyster sauce-slathered stir-fried seafood, meat or veg.
E Victoria pineapple
A sweeter variety of pineapple, often served on the beach, sprinkled with sea salt and chilli.
E Dholl puri
A street-food staple, this flatbread is filled with curried split peas and bean curry.
Dholl puri
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Fisherman Kishor; aerial view of Salt of Palmar; the hotel’s beach bar; a guest room PICTURES: SAR Production; Shutterstock/Ralu Cohn, Vikash Kumar Rai
people say a lot in Mauritius. “And if we see someone having a problem in the street, we’ll always help.”
A TASTE OF MAURITIUS We recognise this thoughtfulness again when we meet chef Nitish, back at Salt. He greets each and every guest at check-in to make sure food suggestions are tailored to them, and to ensure the kitchen knows of any allergies or intolerances.
Making an authentic Mauritian
curry with him (another option on the Skill Swap programme) is a real delight, as he takes us through each step in detail, from knife safety when chopping onions and tomatoes, to creating the paste by crushing the garlic and spices with a pestle on a flat, Indian-style mortar. We add chicken to our marinade (Nitish teaches vegan classes too). And after kneading and frying the dough for a farata, a soft, flaky Mauritian flatbread, we put it all together to make a gentle giant of a curry wrap – mild but mighty in flavour – which we devour in the kitchen.
50 21 JULY 2022 This is how
we get people interested in our culture – we try to make our experiences special
“In Mauritius we have nice botanical gardens, nice hotels, nice lakes and mountains. But it’s really about the culture itself,” says Nitish. “I can say, ‘Try this cocktail: all the ingredients are from the high plateau, and it’s been created in-
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house by this person, in our team.’ And now you’ve tried this curry. This is how we get people interested in our culture – we try to make our experiences special.” And they are. For starters, it’s the most upskilling I’ve ever done within the four walls of a hotel – from learning a watercolour painting technique to honing a new recipe. Plus, as well as meeting many, many lovely people who I’ll remember for a long time, I can say I’ve learnt a lot about the destination, and will bring home a far stronger sense of this country’s culture than I’ve ever managed to soak up by a hotel pool before. TW
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