ISO Bobo de Camarao Recipe

[empecot]

I am planning on cooking a Brazilian themed dinner tomorrow night and ever since I returned from Brazil several years ago I've been wanting to make Bobo de Camarao, a fantastic Shrimp stew.

I own two Brazilian cookbooks and neither of them have recipes for this. There are recipes for stews that I think are similar to Bobo (moqueca, etc.), but are not specifically Bobo de Camarao.

I have Dende Oil and any other ingredients I need to make it authentic are easy to come by here in NYC, I just need a good recipe.

Anyone...?

Thanks!

[annimal]

Take a look at these:

http://www.maria-brazil.org/bobo_de_camarao.htm

http://www.biglove.lvhr.com/recipes/b...

Do you read portuguese? If so, there's tons of recipes online.

[JoLi]

If you don't, I'll be happy to help out.

[annimal]

i love using brazilian recipes... i pull out the tea cups and the requeijao cup... who needs exact measurements!

[OakTownHound]

Don't have a recipe to share, but I don't think bobo is similar to moqueca, except that they both contain dende (I think). Moqueca is seafood stewed with tomatoes, bell pepper, cilantro, and other spices, in a soupy broth enriched with coconut milk.

Bobo, if I remember correctly, is much thicker and denser, perhaps with pureed squash or pumpkin, as well as peanuts, ginger, and dried shrimp, all ground to a paste. This is all from memory (I lived in Salvador, Bahia for 6 months several years ago), and could be wrong. Hope it steers you in the right direction!

[annimal]

Bobo is actually very similar to moqueca, just with added yucca which gets mashed up, accounting for the thickness. What you described is caruru, a paste of peanuts or cashews, also thickened with bread or farinha de mandioca, and traditionally served with acaraje. Though there is a lot of variation in recipes, so you may have had a bobo with some of these other ingredients.

[OakTownHound]

Ah, thanks for the correction. All those tasty Bahian stews have gotten all mixed up in my memory. Wish I could get some comida baiana here in the San Francisco area...

[annimal]

most of the recipes are pretty easy, if you have the ingredients. If I remember correctly, SF has a pretty big brazilian population, so there has to be a brazilian store or two.

i found this site though, which should give you some leads!

http://www.friendsofbrazil.org/commun...