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Matapa

Name: Matapa
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mozambique
Ingredients: 3 bunches Spinach; 100g Peanuts; 400ml Coconut milk; 150g Shrimp; 1 Onion; 3 cloves Garlic; 200ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Cassava leaves stewed with peanuts and coconut milk — Mozambican home cooking.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Matapa is Mozambique's signature home dish: pounded young cassava leaves are slowly stewed with crushed peanuts, coconut milk, and garlic. Coastal areas often add shrimp or crab. Eaten with rice or xima, it's Mozambican soul food.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a seaside village in Mozambique, women pound cassava leaves in a wooden mortar and cook a green stew of peanuts and coconut in a big pot.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Spinach 3 bunches
Peanuts 100g
Coconut milk 400ml
Shrimp 150g
Onion 1
Garlic 3 cloves
Water 200ml
Salt 1 tsp
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the spinach or mince it in a food processor.
Grind the peanuts to a powder in a mortar or food processor.
Simmer the water, spinach, chopped onion, and garlic in a pot for 10 minutes.
Add the peanuts and coconut milk and stew on low for 30 minutes, stirring so it doesn't scorch.
Add the shrimp, simmer 5 minutes, season with salt, and serve with rice.

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