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Taste of Brazil Recipe - Vatapá

If you didn't make it to the Taste of Brazil Dinner during AfroBrazilFest, don't worry, you can try whipping up some homemade Vatapá. 

Vatapá is a traditional Bahian dish from the northeast of Brazil. Bom apetite!

Ingredients

• 2 Onions, chopped.
• 1 Cup dried shrimp
• 1 Cup ginger – I cup
• 1/2 Cup natural peanut
• 1/2 Cup natural cashew
• 2 Cups yucca flour
• 1 Pound of shrimp, peeled and de-veined
• 1 Coconut, fresh coconut milk
• 1/4 cup Palm oil (dendê) oil
• Salt and pepper - to taste

Cooking Directions

1. Place the onions and the ginger with ½ cup of water in a blender and puree well. Set aside.
2. Blend the cashew, peanut and dried shrimp with ½ cup of water until the mixture becomes a well blended paste.
3. In a cooking pan put 2 cups of coconut and add the yucca flour little by little, mixing to avoid clumping.
4. Add the onion and shrimp mixture and start to cook, after 5-7 minutes add the palm oil.
5. Stir constantly until mixture cooks for about 30 minutes. The vatapá is done when it becomes darker and starts to become wrinkled.

 

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