Mucapata

Name: Mucapata
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Mozambican
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 1/2 cup mung beans; 2 cups coconut milk; Salt, to taste

Mucapata/moo-kah-PAH-tah/

About this dish

A creamy rice porridge cooked with coconut milk and mung beans, a Mozambican breakfast dish.

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Ingredients

🍚1 cup rice

🫘1/2 cup mung beans

🥥2 cups coconut milk

🧂Salt, to taste

Method

Serves 4

Soak the mung beans and simmer until nearly tender.

Add rice and coconut milk to the pot.

Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the rice and beans are fully cooked and creamy.

Season with salt.

Serve warm for breakfast.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Mucapata is a traditional Mozambican coastal breakfast, valued for its creamy coconut and bean combination.

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