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Camarão Piri-Piri

Name: Camarão Piri-Piri
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mozambique
Ingredients: 12 (large, head-on) Shrimp; 4 Red Chili Pepper; 4 cloves Garlic; 3 tbsp Lemon juice; 4 tbsp Olive oil; 1 tsp Paprika; 20g Butter; 1 tsp Salt; 1 Lemon; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Big prawns marinated in fiery piri-piri sauce and grilled — a seaside specialty of Mozambique.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mozambique has a long Indian Ocean coastline and is known especially for its large prawns. Camarão piri-piri — prawns marinated in a sauce of small hot piri-piri chilies with garlic, lemon, and oil and grilled over charcoal — is the signature dish of seaside restaurants in the capital, Maputo. It was born where Portuguese food culture met African chilies.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the terrace of a seaside restaurant in Maputo, overlooking the Indian Ocean, big prawns coated in red sauce are grilled over charcoal and brought to the table.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Shrimp 12 (large, head-on)
Red Chili Pepper 4
Garlic 4 cloves
Lemon juice 3 tbsp
Olive oil 4 tbsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Butter 20g
Salt 1 tsp
Lemon 1
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Pound the red chilies, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, paprika, and salt into a piri-piri sauce.
Slit the prawns along the back, devein, and marinate in half the sauce for 30 minutes.
Grill or pan-fry over high heat for 3 minutes per side.
Warm the remaining sauce with the butter in a small pan.
Plate the prawns, pour over the sauce, and serve with lemon and rice.

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