Beira Coastal · Coconut Prawn Curry
Caril de Camarão (Prawn Curry)
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Unlike the grilled LM Prawns eaten with the hands, this version of the same prawn is simmered down into a thick, garlicky coconut-milk sauce and eaten with a spoon over rice.
Prawns are simmered in a sauce of onion, garlic, tomato, and coconut milk, spiked with piri-piri and sometimes curry powder carried along old Indian Ocean trade routes. Market cooks in Beira ladle it over rice for a filling lunch plate.
Why it's made this way: Beira's fishing fleets bring in prawns daily, and the coconut-and-spice treatment reflects centuries of trade between Mozambique's coast, Goa, and the wider Indian Ocean world.
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