Amanda Amaral

Writing 107
07/09/2014

How You Can Make a Moqueca

Moqueca is a kind of typical food from Bahia. This food you can choose the main
ingredient: fish, shrimp or both. It has a good taste because it has many kind of native flavours
which gives to food special taste. Moqueca is the main course and it can be complemented with
rice, farofa made by cassava and palm oil, and piro - mixing between cassava flour and
sauce from muqueca. Anyone can find these food in the most of seafood restaurants in Bahia.
First, it is necessary to know how many people will taste this plate. For one person, it is
necessary a skillet, one hundred grams of fish, one hundred grams of shrimp - optional, 1 lemon,
5 milliliters of palm oil, 1 tomato, 1/2 onion, one grams of coriander, two hundred milliliters of
coconut milk, one hundred milliliters of tomato sauce and salt to taste. Thirty minutes before you
start cook, you need put the fish and shrimp on the skillet and braise it with the lemon juice,
coriander, palm oil, tomato, onion and salt. You don t need to warm up, just braise it. This first
step is essential to give the good taste of this food. If you want, you can keep more than thirty
minutes - one hour is good.
After wait this time, the taste of your food is almost done. Now, you will put the skillet
temperature in the middle. Next, you need to add the tomato sauce and the coconut milk and mix
it carefully. If you mix hard, the fish can shatter and the look of your food won't be good. After
mix, you have to cover the pan and wait twenty minutes. You have to pay attention and mix
sometimes to make sure that the food won't burn. After waiting twenty minutes, you need to

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observe the texture of the fish and shrimp. If they change the color completely, your muqueca is
ready.
To end, prepare a common white rice. If you want to serve with piro or farofa, you
need to find cassava flour. To make piro you just need a little bit of the muqueca sauce - one
cup is enough - and put it inside a pan. While you mix the sauce, you need throw the cassava
flour at the same time - one hundred grams is enough. It will ready when it looks like a porridge.
To make farofa, you need a skillet with palm oil - a teaspoon is enough - and warm up it. After
very warm, just throw the cassava flour - one hundred grams is enough - and wait change color
and texture. Thus, your food is ready.