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Pato No Tucupi (From Brazil)

Pato no tucupi (backed duck served in cassava sauce) is the most famous traditional dish in Pará State.

Ingredients

1 duck (medium size)

2 liters of tucupi (a yellow cassava sauce from manioc)

3 bundle of jambu (a native plant of Amazon region)

Seasonning salt, garlic, black pepper, smell pepper

How to make

Season the duck a before day with the flavourings of your preference.

Prepare a sauce with garlic and place it in jug for a night. In the next day bake it in oven, basting the duck from time to time with the garlic sauce, so that does not parched.

After baked and very ruddy take out it of the oven and cut it in pieces.

Boil the tucupi and when it is boiling, put in the pieces of backed duck. Wait it to cook till to be soft. Meanwhile, wash the jambu and it place water with salt in saucepan to boil and put the jambu for some minutes. Remove the water and mixed the jambu with the duck.

Serve with white rice, smell pepper sauce and very dried flour, seasoned with butter.