Prawns soup from Cape Verde

                                                                               Receta en Español

The recipe I present today is 'Camaroes soup', a typical dish from Cape Verde, Camaroes means prawns in portuguese. There are several sizes of prawns, for this recipe you should use the big ones.

Ingredients:

-  300 grams of prawns.
-  1 onion.
-  2 clove of garlic.
-  1/2 ripen tomato.
-  1/2 Kg green plantain.
-  300 grams yucca or manioc.
-  500 grams of sweet potato.
-  3 or 4 tablespoon of oil.
-  3 or 4 grains Malagueta pepper.
-  Salt.

Method:

1- Wash prawns with some water, if they are not cooked, boil then with some salt, save water.

2- Peel prawns , reserve the heads and shells to add some taste to the soup.

3- Peel the yucca, boil in water until it is tender, then cut it in some pieces, get rid of the central thread.

4- Cut sweet potato into little cubes, cut plantain into slices.

5- Cut onion and garlic into slices , pour some oil in a casserole and sauté.

6- Cut tomato into litle pieces, add it to the casserole.

7- Add plantain, sweet potato, yucca, water (here you can use the water obtained when you cooked the prawns) , add salt and malagueta grains. Put it on medium heat.

8- Fry the heads and shells.

9- Put the heads and shells in a sieve on top of the casserole, pour some water and crush. This way you will obtain a juice with the taste of the prawns. 

10- Cook until all the ingredients are well done. Then add the prawns.

11- Cook 5 more minutes. And there you have the soup!.

My comments to the recipe

This soup is amazing, it has a wonderful taste. The Malagueta pepper is not spicy , it provides a curious taste to the soup similar to cardamom.

Where you can find the ingredients

Malagueta pepper is the ingredient more difficult to find. you can buy it on the internet. There are many online shops where they provide this spice.

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