Amazon on the plate

Salted and
dried shrimps
Origin
To salt, dry or smoke fish or shrimp,
Caridina sp, are ancestral preserving
methods, much appreciated in the
<strong>Amazon</strong>. They do not only conserve
the crustacean, but also add new
flavors. Already the natives must
have dried local fish and prawns of
the rivers and of the sea. A form of
storing food and got the necessary
provisions for fights and wars or to
face the great floods. With the arrival
of the salt, brought by the
Portuguese colonizers, the old
technique was improved.
Aroma
Dried, salted or smoked prawns
preserve a strong and complex taste
of seafood and sea salt.
Use
Covered for a few hours with water
to get rid of the excess of salt before
use, washed with lemon to take away
the “pitiú”, the fish smell, this type o
prawns take part in many <strong>Amazon</strong>
dishes, many of them consumed in
the mobile stalls bordering streets.
The custom dictates that these foods,
a type of <strong>Amazon</strong>ian fast food has to
be served in the late afternoon and
early evening.
Classic
In the tacacá, vatapá and caruru.
Exotic
In the tacacá, baited with a toothpick
and eaten whole including the shell.
Unmissable
A good “tacacá” taken in the street The in <strong>Amazon</strong> on the plate
the traditional black “cuia”.
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