Comoros
Unstable Comoros has endured 19 coups or attempted coups since gaining independence from France in 1975. In 1997, the islands of Anjouan and Moheli declared their independence from Comoros. In 1999, military chief Col. AZALI seized power. He has pledged to resolve the secessionist crisis through a confederal arrangement named the 2000 Fomboni Accord. In December 2001, voters approved a new constitution and presidential elections took place in the spring of 2002.

The Comoros is slightly more than 12 times the size of Washington, DC. The climate is tropical marine with the rainy season (November to May).

Recipes

Chicken with coconut, mashed potatoes, carrot and sweet potato - Main

Ingredients:
1 coconut milk box
1 chicken cut in pieces with its offal
2 onions, thin slices
600 G of sweet potatoes
500 G of carrots
1 furnished bouquet
3 parsley bits
1 C with coconut soup grated
5 grated nutmeg pinches
0.5 C with coffee of powder gingembre
2 C with oil soup
salt and pepper

Directions
Gild chicken out of casserole in oil. Withdraw gild the onions then reserve them. Place offal in the casserole, sprinkle with 70 water Cl carry to boiling, foam and let boil 20 min.
Filter the bubble. Pour it in the casserole with chicken, onions, the furnished bouquet and the powder gingembre. Salt, pepper. Let quiver during 15 min. Gently pour the coconut milk (reserve 10 Cl) while mixing. Leave mijoter during 30 min.
During this time, peel carrots and the potatoes, cut them in cubes. Cook separately them with salted ebullient water 30 min. Separately pass them to the potato-masher add 3 C to sweet potato mashed potatoes in that of carrot, mix.
Water the coconut milk remainder in 10 water Cl. Season grated nutmeg and carry gently to boiling. Mix the 2/3 in potato mashed potatoes and the remainder in that of carrot. Check the seasoning; add, with your taste, a little butter.
Remove casserole the furnished bouquet. Strew mashed potatoes with chopped parsley potato and powder that with coconut carrot grated. Be useful quite hot with chicken.