🇬🇧 Savouring the world - Bobó de camarão (Brazil)

Today I'm going to tell you about the recipe for one of my favourite Brazilian dishes. Bobó de camarão (camarão = shrimp). The recipe makes 10 servings. Adjust the amount of ingredients to get the amount you want of this Brazilian delight.

To do this you will need:

• 2 kg of shrimp;
• 1 kg of cassava;
• 2 chopped onions;
• 4 tablespoons of oil;
• 500 g of tomatoes;
• 2 tablespoons of chopped cilantro;
• 1 teaspoon of black pepper;
• 1 cup of coconut milk;
• 1/4 cup of palm oil.

Directions:

Clean the cassava and cook it in water and salt. If the cassava has harder fibres, remove them. Beat the cassava in a blender, gradually adding a little water (1 cup of water for every kilo of cassava). Reserve the cassava dough.

Peel the tomatoes, cut them in half and remove the seeds.

In a pan, fry the onions in the oil until golden brown.

Add the tomatoes and let them cool.

Add the cleaned and peeled shrimp, salt, black pepper and coriander. Turn down the heat. Cover the pan until the shrimp are cooked.

Add the pureed cassava, coconut milk and palm oil. Cook, stirring constantly until it boils.

Enjoy this dish without moderation.

Some of these ingredients may not be easy to find outside of Brazil, but if you do, try this recipe. I've used arracacha to add the creaminess of the sauce in place of cassava, and at home I've never used palm oil or coriander and use pepper sauce because I like spicy. I certainly can't call what I usually do at home a bobó de camarão, but I am aware of this and take advantage of the opportunities to eat real bobó de camarão in restaurants. In the kitchen I am very intuitive nowadays, and I rarely follow recipes. In this column I am going to make videos where this feature will be very noticeable.

Have you ever tried bobó de camarão? Did you make it at home? What is your opinion on the dish?

Nycka, the Nomad

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