Vegetarian Moqueca

Paolo hasn’t prepared this month’s recipe but has been sent one by LMCN member Morisa Morita,who comes originally from Brazil. Don’t forget that the next Olympics will be Rio de Janiero, Brazil in 2016!, so here’s a small taste of Brazil until then!

Vegetarian Moqueca, (a North-Eastern Brazilian dish adapted from Fish Moqueca) for 6 people which is great to share with friends!

Ingredients

• Coriander leaves
• 1 chopped onion
• 3 sliced tomatoes
• 3 stems of spring onion
• 1chopped red pepper
• 1 small pumpkin sliced in chunks
• 1 small packet of green beans
• 1 small packet of okra
• 1 tin of butter beans
• 2 spoonful of olive oil
• 2 spoonful of palm oil
• 300 ml of coconut milk
• 2 (or more) red chilli
• salt

How to prepare

1. Boil the pumpkin and green beans. They should be half cooked.

2. Put the olive oil and half of the 5 first ingredients in a big pan.

3. Then put the pumpkin (half cooked), the green beans (half cooked), the okra and the butter beans, the red chilli, 1 spoonful of palm oil, some salt and half of the coconut milk.

4. Add the rest of the 5 first ingredients, the palm oil and the coconut milk.

5. Put the pan in a low heat and cook it slowly until everything is cooked.

*Serve it with rice and farofa (see the recipe below).

Farofa Ingredients

• 100gr of gari (cassava flour)
• 3 spoonful of chopped onion
• Coriander (or parsley) and spring onion finely chopped
• 2 spoonful of margarine or butter
• 2 spoonful of oil
• Salt

How to prepare

1. Mix the gari with about 2 or 3 spoonful of water

2. Fry the onion in the oil and margarine

3. Add the coriander (or parsley) and the spring onion and fry them.

4. Turn off the heat; add the gari and mix them. Turn on the heat just a little while mixing everything.

Paolo is a Project Worker with the Llanelli Multi-Cultural Project. Click here to find out more.