Authentic Goan Food You Must Try – Yummy GOA!

         

From casual beach shacks, where you can enjoy a meal by candlelight with the soft sand between your toes, to refined international cuisine in exclusive luxury hotels, there's a bundle of choices to suit all budgets and taste buds in Goa. If you are interested in the traditional local food scene though, these are the dishes we think you should give it a definite try

1. Goan Fish Curry

The dish that Goa is most famous for is the Goan Fish Curry. It's a coconut based dish flavoured with red chillies and fresh fish or prawns usually served with fluffy rice. Delicious!

2. Cafreal

Grilled chicken served Portuguese style with spicy green chillies, peppercorns, garlic and ginger.

3. Xacuti

A popular dish that is commonly made with chicken, prawns or vegetables, cooked with coconut, red chillies, poppy seeds and spices.

4. Prawns Orly

Battered Prawns with coriander.

5. Vada Fritters

These traditional South Indian breakfast fritters make a delicious start to the day.

6. Caldine 

A mild yellow Goan fish or vegetable curry with rice.

7. Goan Sausages

A chorizo pork sausage with Goan spices. So good!

8. Vindaloo

Traditionally Goan Pork Vindaloo was a mild, sweet and sour curry, commonly served in the Goan home at Christmas, New Year and Easter. Now it is more often than not a very hot and spicy curry with red chillies, ginger, garlic and other spices ground in vinegar.

9. Fish Thali

A popular lunch time dish of fish or baby prawn curry with fried fish, rice, vegetables and baby clams.

10. Bebinca

A traditional rich, layered cake made from coconut milk, sugar and egg yolks.

11.  Pui – Local Bread

A traditional bread served along with Chicken curry or Fish Thick Masala.

Try them all, they are amazing!