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“Ground peanuts, brown sugar, rice flour—a highland sweet wrapped in tradition and banana leaves.”
What the real thing tastes like
Koba is a sweet made from ground peanuts, brown sugar and rice flour. It is a traditional food of Madagascar (where it is also known as koba ravina or kobandravina), especially in the highlands. In marketplaces and gas stations one may find vendors selling koba akondro, a sweet made by wrapping a batter of ground peanuts, mashed bananas, honey and corn flour in banana leaves and steaming or boiling the small cakes until the batter has set.
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Koba is a peanut sweet born in Madagascar's highlands—a humble combination of ground peanuts, brown sugar, and rice flour pressed into portable cakes. You'll find vendors selling these at marketplaces and gas stations, often wrapped in banana leaves as koba akondro, where mashed bananas and honey join the peanut base before steaming or boiling sets the batter into something dense and satisfying.
Order it here when it has
- portable snack
- traditional preparation
- simple ingredients
- marketplace staple
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