matapa
Sign in to saveMatapa or matata is a typical Mozambican dish, prepared with young cassava, pumpkin, or spinach leaves which are usually ground in a large wooden mortar and pestle before being cooked with peanuts, tomatoes, garlic, onion and coconut milk. Many matapa dishes incorporate cashew nuts, crab, or shrimp. It is often served over rice.
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- Instance of
- dish
- Subclass of
- sauce
- Part of
- Mozambican cuisine
- Has part
- peanut
- Country of origin
- Mozambique
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Matapa or matata is a typical Mozambican dish, prepared with young cassava, pumpkin, or spinach leaves which are usually ground in a large wooden mortar and pestle before being cooked with peanuts, tomatoes, garlic, onion and coconut milk. Many matapa dishes incorporate cashew nuts, crab, or shrimp. It is often served over rice.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “matapa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.