Bobo De Camarao Recipe
- (do not use much) salt and pepper to taste juice of 1 lemon
- 200 ml of coconut lowfat milk (the bottled, thick kind)
- 2 Tbsp. of dende palm oil
- 3 Tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil
- Season shrimp with lemon juice, salt and pepper.
- Let stand for 1 hour.
- Boil the shrimp shells in water with cilantro leaves.
- Let simmer for 5 min, strain and use this broth to cook cassava pcs till tender.
- After cooking cassava, puree it in blender or possibly food processor with the broth and 10 shrimps.
- Saute/fry onions, red peppers and tomatoes in extra virgin olive oil Add in shrimp and let cook for 5 min.
- Add in cassava puree, coconut lowfat milk and dende oil.
- Let boil for 2 min
- (LOW FLAME, STIRRING ALL THE TIME).
- When ready, the consistency is which of VERY thick soup.
- Serve with rice and "farofinha de dende"
- (Recipes below)
- Farofinha de dende:Saute/fry finely minced onion (about 1 Tbsp.)
- in Dende oil.
- Add in manioc flour (funny looking subproduct of cassava-resembles sand, and tastes like nothing till you season it LOL!
- Stir constantly over low flame a few min, so it doesn't burn.
- Looks a lot like orange- colored sand.
- Salt to taste.
- Odd-looking, but good.
- Brazilian white rice:Wash 1 c. of rice thoroughly and let dry (Which's a hint to get rice which's not soggy) Saute/fry 1 Tbsp.
- of finely minced onion and 1 clove of garlic, also finely minced, in veg.
- oil (I use canola).
- Add in rice and fry it till it becomes sort of transparent.
- Add in two c. of warm water, salt to taste, put the lid on the pan and let cook over VERY low flame, till water has evaporated.
- Let stand in covered pan till serving time.
- If it forms lumps, use a fork to fluff it.
- Hope you enjoy the flavors of my beautiful Brazil
salt, coconut lowfat milk, palm oil, olive oil
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/bobo-de-camarao-88578 (may not work)