 Also popular are rice, fried potatoes, cassava, and vegetables such as carrots, kale, squash and fish and meat such as tuna, sawfish, lobster, chicken, grilled pork and eggs.One legacy of the Portuguese on the islands is olives and Alentejo wines which are still imported.One type of Cape Verdean stew is a "cachupa" which includes mashed maize, onions, green bananas, manioc, sweet potatoes, squash and yams.