Matapa

Ingredients

Quantities for 5 servings.

• 700 g Cassava leaves or spinach
• 200 g Peanuts, ground
• 400 ml Coconut milk
• 400 g Prawns
• 2 piece Onion
• 6 clove Garlic
• 2 piece Tomatoes
• 2 piece Piri-piri chilli
• 350 g Rice, to serve
• 60 ml Vegetable oil
• to taste Salt

Method

1. Wash the leaves, strip the tough stems and pound them to a paste in a mortar.
2. Fry the onion and garlic in oil until soft and add the tomatoes.
3. Stir in the leaves, add water to the same level and cook forty minutes on a low heat.
4. Add the ground peanuts and cook twenty minutes more, stirring.
5. Add the prawns, the whole piri-piri and salt and stew ten minutes.
6. Pour in the coconut milk and warm it five minutes without letting it boil.
7. Serve with rice or with xima, the maize porridge.