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Bobó de Camarão

Name: Bobó de Camarão
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Brazil
Ingredients: 500g Cassava (frozen OK); 400g Peeled Shrimp; 300ml Coconut milk; 2 tbsp Dendê (red palm) Oil; 1 Onion; 1 Bell pepper; 2 Tomato; To taste Cilantro

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Shrimp simmered in a creamy sauce of mashed cassava and coconut milk — a classic of Bahia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bobó de camarão is a signature dish of Bahia in northeastern Brazil and a leading example of Afro-Brazilian cooking, shaped by the food culture of African communities. Cassava is boiled until soft and mashed, then combined with coconut milk and dendê (red palm) oil to make a thick sauce in which shrimp are simmered. It has the rich, spicy character typical of Bahian food.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a seaside restaurant in Salvador, a bright orange bowl of bobó de camarão arrives steaming on a lazy afternoon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cassava (frozen OK) 500g
Peeled Shrimp 400g
Coconut milk 300ml
Dendê (red palm) Oil 2 tbsp
Onion 1
Bell pepper 1
Tomato 2
Cilantro To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the cassava until soft, then mash it into a paste, keeping a little of the cooking water.
In another pot, sauté onion, bell pepper, and tomato in dendê oil.
Add the cassava paste and coconut milk and simmer over low heat.
Add the shrimp and simmer until cooked through.
Season with salt and scatter with cilantro.

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